[MITgcm-support] river discharge

[Patrick Heimbach]

Dimitri,

On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Dmitri Leonov wrote:

> Hi Jean-Michel,
>
> So, as understand, the time interpolation in EXF is not working  
> correctly in this case (for some reason?):
> 1) it uses zero instead of the first value so the runoff is  
> linearly increasing,

No, you got that wrong.
Time interpolation of runoff is working properly,
assuming you've set values in data.exf correctly.

> 2) it gets interpolation period wrong so the slope depends on the  
> timestep (as if the period is specified in timesteps rather than in  
> seconds).

Are your E-P-R fields balanced overall?

-Patrick



> Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
>> Hi Dimitri,
>>
>> I forgot the important thing,
>> apparently, in your set-up, EXF produces a linear increase with  
>> time in run-off, but I don't know precisely what would need to be  
>> changed in data.exf & data.exf_clim to get a constant run-off. May  
>> be someone else will know.
>>
>> Jean-Michel
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:16:22PM -0500, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
>>
>>> Dimitri,
>>>
>>> Second suggestion worked also: did a short run and E-P-R is not  
>>> constant in time, but grows linearly,
>>> see attached figure. And sea-level is consistant with this.
>>>
>>> Also, I recommand to always compile at least default packages  
>>> (group: gfd),
>>> it makes things easier (monitor, debug are useful).
>>>
>>> Jean-Michel
>>>
>>>
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> University of Washington, School of Oceanography
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