[MITgcm-support] unit of specific humidity

[Matthew Mazloff]

Hi Yuan,

If you are using the ocean model, sRef is salt (in psu = practical  
salinity units, which is about g/kg).

Matt


On Sep 15, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Yuan Lian wrote:

> Hi, Matt,
>
> Thanks. I guess I am still a little confused. In MITgcm manual,  
> when sRef is defined as specific humidity, it has unit of g/kg  
> (section 3.6.2 of beta version). Other than this I couldn't find  
> any more information about the unit. The variable "salt" is used as  
> salinity(ocean) or specific humidity (atmosphere), do you know if  
> someone used "salt" as specific humidity before? Thanks again!
>
> Yuan
>
> Matthew Mazloff wrote:
>
>> Hi Yuan,
>>
>> kg/kg
>>
>> It seems as thought the mitgcm.org site is down right now, but  
>> units  are usually an easy thing to search for.
>>
>> -matt
>>
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Yuan Lian wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I have another question. Does the specific humidity (S) have   
>>> unit g/kg or kg/kg in MITgcm model  (not the one in AIM and  
>>> Fizhi  packages)? Thanks!
>>>
>>> Yuan
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