[MITgcm-support] linear growth of runoff

[Dmitri Leonov]

> It seems that everything is working fine:
> You tried constant-in-time runoff, and got linearly growing sea-level.
> I reckon you are using real freshwater flux,
> i.e. E-P-R gets added to surface elevation.
> So, if your E-P-R field is out of balance, i.e. if it does not
> add up to zero when integrated over the domain,
> then your sea-level will grow linearly.
>

As I said, the sea level grows quadratically instead of linearly even 
when there is no time interpolation (runoffperiod=0); same result is 
obtained when the interpolation is done between two equal values (there 
is no inconsistency here).

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