[MITgcm-support] momentum diagnostics

[Matthew Mazloff]

Hi Mike,

If I remember correctly TOTUTEND was in units of m/day instead of m/ 
sec.  So divide by 86400.  (I think JMC updated this for the newer  
model version)

-Matt


On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Michael A. Spall wrote:

> Forgive me if this has already been discussed.  I would like to
> save each of the tendency terms on the rhs of the momentum
> equations.  The available_diagnostics.log seems less than clear
> on what is available.  From looking at the code, Um_Advec seems
> to represent all advection terms, including the Coriolis term. Can I
> save each rhs term independently? I did not see a tendency due to
> the pressure gradient term. Also, the tendency of zonal momentum
> (TOTUTEND) seems to have different units from the individual
> tendency terms such as Um_Advec (it is 5 orders of magnitude larger).
> I am using a version of MITgcm that is almost 1 year old, if
> this makes any difference.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> -- 
> ==================================================
>
> Michael A. Spall
> Department of Physical Oceanography
> W.H.O.I. MS #21
> 360 Woods Hole Road
> Woods Hole, MA   02543
>
> mspall at whoi.edu
> (508) 289-3342 (office)
> (508) 457-2181 (fax)
>
> =================================================
>
> _______________________________________________
> MITgcm-support mailing list
> MITgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> http://mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support