[MITgcm-support] linear growth of runoff

[Matthew Mazloff]

Have you checked EmP?
the easiest way would be to turn run-off off and see how sea level  
changes..this might be your "missing" component

-matt

On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Dmitri Leonov wrote:

>
>> 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
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