[MITgcm-support] Pressure field

[Martin Losch]

Hi Ivane,
totPhiHyd is "defined" in model/src/diags_phi_hyd.F.
It's
cumsum(g*(rho(z)-rho0)*dz)/rhoConst + free surface contribution  
(g*eta) + (surfPressure)/rhoConst

Martin

On 23 Jan 2007, at 17:24, ivane pairaud wrote:

> Dear MITgcm users,
>
> I am a new user working on the modeling of internal tides (at the  
> LEGI laboratory, Grenoble, France).
> Trying to compute energy fluxes I need to get the perturbation  
> pressure p' but I am not sure about the content of totPhiHyd. Is it  
> the hydrostatic pressure anomaly or total pressure? What does it  
> include (does it include the free-surface contribution)?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Ivane
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