[MITgcm-support] Partial horizontal cells?

[Martin Losch]

Hi Christopher,

partial cell in the horizontal are not implemented (asaik), but (I think) the code is written in such a way that you can have thin walls between "wet" cells, e.g. hFaC(i,j) = hFacC(i+1,j) = 1 and hFacW(i,j) = 0. However, you will have to change the initialization of the grid (hFac's, in ini_masks_etc.F). For your problem, this is not likely to help a great deal, though ...

Martin



On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Christopher L. Wolfe wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know if there a way to use partial horizontal cells (like partial bottom cells in the vertical, but in the horizontal) to represent thin land-masses? I'm trying to compare a coarse-resolution simulation to an eddy-resolving simulation. They both have flat bottoms, but the eddy-resolving model has wall-like land-masses which are much thinner than the horizontal cells in the coarse resolution model. This makes it difficult to transform between the two grids while preserving things like total tracer content.
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> Any help would be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Christopher
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> Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD  clwolfe at ucsd.edu
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