[MITgcm-support] ptracers?

[Van Thinh Nguyen]

Hi Stephanie,

May I bother you with another question?

I would like to calculate how much a tracer (say Oxygen) will be mixing 
from the air in to the lake, do I need any specific boundary condition at 
the free surface?

Thanks a lot.


Van Thinh



On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Stephanie Dutkiewicz wrote:

>
> Van Thinh -
>
> In data.ptracers you can set the file for the initial fields for the tracers 
> with
> PTRACERS_initialFile(*)
> where * is the tracer number.
>
> If PTRACERS_Iter0 (set in data.ptracers) is equal to nIter0 (set in
> data) then the model will automatically read in the initial tracer
> values from the files you've set by PTRACERS_initialFile
>
> If nIter0>PTRACERS_Iter0 then it will read the tracer fields from
> a pickup.
>
> steph
>
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Van Thinh Nguyen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to simulate some tracers (DOP, O2, DOP) mixing in a lake. I 
>> did check in verification/dic_example & cfc_example. However, in these 
>> examples all tracers are initilized by pickup from previous run, I am not 
>> sure how can I initialize my tracers? (it's maybe the same way as U, V ?)
>> 
>> Can someone give me a hint?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot,
>> 
>> Van Thinh
>> 
>> 
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