[MITgcm-support] Name of the sponge layer

grisouard Nicolas.Grisouard at hmg.inpg.fr
Thu Apr 22 12:36:17 EDT 2010


Thank you all for these references, it should do it.

Nicolas.

> Patrick, thanks for jogging my memory.
> The MITgcm sponge layer was developed by Christophe Herbaut but he never
> published it.
> Kate's paper below is the first paper that describes Christophe's scheme
> and she calls it the "Herbaut formulation".
> So you could call it the "Herbaut formulation as described in Zhang and
> Marotzke [1999]".
> Cheers, Dimitris
>
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>
>>
>> Oops, I may have forgotten one
>> (Dimitris, please correct if not appropriate):
>>
>> Zhang, Q. and J. Marotzke, 1999:
>> The importance of open-boundary estimation for an Indian Ocean GCM-
>> data synthesis.
>> J. Mar. Res, 57, 305-334.
>>
>> Note that all these references are in the context of state estimation
>> ("data assimilation"), but that was the original motivation for
>> implementing them in the MITgcm.
>>
>> -p.
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> the specific implementation goes back to work by
>>>
>>> Bruno Ferron and Jochem Marotzke, 2003:
>>> Impact of 4D-variational assimilation of WOCE hydrography on
>>> the meridional circulation of the Indian Ocean.
>>> Deep Sea Research Part II, 50(12-13), 2005 - 2021.
>>>
>>> Nadia Ayoub, 2006:
>>> Estimation of boundary values in a North Atlantic circulation model
>>> using an adjoint model.
>>> Ocean Modelling, 12(3-4), 319-347. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.06.003.
>>>
>>> Don't think it has a special name beyond "sponge layer"
>>> (it really isn't more than that).
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Jody Klymak wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Nicolas,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if it does or not. However, you may reference Carter
>>>> and Merrifield 2009 where they discuss the efficacy of using
>>>> sponges for internal waves.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,  Jody
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 21, 2010, at  15:55 PM, grisouard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the sponge layer implemented in the MITgcm have a name, or is
>>>>> described in detail in a publication? I am trying to explain its
>>>>> principle
>>>>> in a paper but a reference would help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Nicolas
>>>>>
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>>>>> Nicolas GRISOUARD
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