[MITgcm-support] Surface gravity waves?

[Amato Evan]

Hi Dimitris,

Thank you very much for your response and for pointing me to your paper!

Sincerely,
Amato

On Jun 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Amato, you don't need to explicitly resolve surface gravity waves in  
> order to simulate storm surges.
> For example in the this paper: http://ecco2.org/manuscripts/2007/gibraltar.pdf
> storm surges were simulated using typical MITgcm implicit free  
> surface settings.
>
> If you want to resolve surface gravity waves rather than treat them  
> implicitly,
> I am guessing that all you need to do is to reduce deltat, the model  
> time step.
>
> Dimitris
>
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Amato Evan wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a combination of settings would permit
>> surface gravity waves?  I'm extremely new to the model, so please
>> forgive me if I don't use the correct jargon here.  Ultimately I'm
>> trying to figure out if the MITgcm can be used to simulate TC storm
>> surge.  Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Amato
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