[MITgcm-support] Forcing the model using some atmospheric data

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

George, did anybody get back to you?

There are several (at least 3) open-water bulk formulae packages
available in MITgcm.  The one that I am most familiar with is in
package exf, see pkg/exf/exf_bulkformulae.F and
pkg/exf/exf_bulk_largeyeager04.F

Regarding data.cal, if you have a specific period of surface forcing
you would use something like:

# *******************
# Calendar Parameters
# *******************
 &CAL_NML
 TheCalendar='gregorian',
 startDate_1=19790101,
 startDate_2=000000,
 &

which says that model time step 0 starts at hour zero on January 1,
1979.  Then in data.exf, you will specify the period of surface forcing,
as, for example, is done in
verification/global_ocean.cs32x15/input.icedyn/data.exf

I have not used "TheCalendar='model'" so I don't know if it will
co-exist well with pkg/exf.

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:22 -0500, Georges Djoumna wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am doing a lake simulation, without ice.
> I would like to force the model by using, air temperature, air  
> humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation.
> 
> I am wondering which package I have to use. I've tried the Bulk  
> formula package, it seems that this package needs the  
> thermodynamic-seaice package, but I doing simulation in a no ice  
> framework.
> 
>   I've tried to use the external forcing package, I have a problem  
> with the Calendar package with data.cal
> 
> #
> # *******************
> # Calendar Parameters
> # *******************
>   &CAL_NML
>   TheCalendar='model',
>   startDate_1=0,
>   startDate_2=000000,
>   &
> 
> In fact the atmospheric data I am using are given every 150 seconds  
> and the code is not reading binary file containing those data
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Georges DJOUMNA, Ph.D.
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