[MITgcm-support] river discharge

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Dimitri,

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:16:25AM -0800, Dmitri Leonov wrote:
> Dear modelers,
> 
> I ran a simple test problem with closed boundaries and a constant (in 
> time) river discharge - to make sure the units are right.
> But what I noticed was that the sea level grew quadratically instead of 
> linearly. Does anyone know how to explain that?
> 
> Thanks.
> Dmitri.
> _______________________________________________

This does not look right. Did similar test and the (global) mean 
sea-level was, as expected, the time integral of the global mean 
fresh-water flux.
Hard to tell more at this point.

Jean-Michel