[MITgcm-support] river discharge

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Dimitri,

I am not looking at your set-up anymore (I show that the sea-level
was responding in the correct way, given the forcing that is applied).
Did you try Patrick's suggestion:

> Setting in data.exf
>   runoffperiod = 0.,
> 
> should allow you to use constant-in-time runoff field.

Jean-Michel

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:59:22AM -0800, 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,
> 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).
> 
> Thanks for looking into that. but I'm still very curious to know why 
> exactly it happens and what i need to correct.
> 
> Regards,
> Dmitri.
> 
> 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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> Dmitri A. Leonov
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> University of Washington, School of Oceanography
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