[MITgcm-support] river discharge

[Dmitri Leonov]

Hi Jean-Michel,

Here is a tar'ed directory containing the 'code' and 'input' directories.

Thanks,
Dmitri.

Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> 2 suggestions:
> - sending the parameter files (data & data.*) would help.
> - you can run it again for a short period of time & set monitorFreq
>  to a small value (1 or few deltaT) and see what the mean
>  sea-level ( %MON dynstat_eta_mean , in standard output, unless
>  you use MNC/netcdf) and mean fresh water flux 
>  ( %MON extforcing_empmr_mean ) look like.
>
> Jean-Michel
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:20:51PM -0800, Dmitri Leonov wrote:
>   
>> Hello Jean-Michel,
>>
>> That does not look right - that's for sure. The growth starts as 
>> quadratic and then becomes linear (see plot) but the slope is not right 
>> and it depends on the timestep (inversely proportional)!
>>
>> I can send you my input files. There may be something I'm missing...
>>
>> Dmitri.
>>
>> Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>    
>>>>         


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Dmitri A. Leonov
Research Associate, Postdoctoral
University of Washington, School of Oceanography


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