[MITgcm-support] Strange results from GAD diagnostics using SOM

[Christopher L. Wolfe]

Martin,

Thanks for the insights. I'll divide by my time step and see if I can  
get my terms to balance.

Christopher

On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> by coincidence, the same problem you are having was encountered in  
> our lab today, which forced me to have closer look at  
> gad_som_adv_x.F. My conclusion from a rough scale analysis is that  
> the diagnostic ADVx/y/r_TH etc is multiplied by the (tracer) time- 
> step, so dividing your output by deltaTtracer, or if you don't have  
> that, by deltaT, should bring the values down to normal.
>
> Jean-Michel, can you fix this (if it is really the problem)? I don't  
> know this part of the code too well.
>
> Martin
>
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