[MITgcm-support] Fwd: deltat < 1 s

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

Cool. Thanks!  The question originates from Yun Xu (cced) and for her particular application pkg/cal is not very critical.

Cheers

Dimitris Menemenlis
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On Apr 21, 2011, at 2:02 PM, "Jean-Michel Campin" <jmc at ocean.mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> I have seen several set-ups using successfully deltaT < 1.s
> including verification experiments "short_surf_wave" & "rotating_tank".
> But none of those were using pkg/cal.
> 
> So I guess we can re-phrase the question as how pkg/cal 
> deals with deltaT < 1.s (and I don't have any idea about that).
> 
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
> 
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:21:02PM -0700, Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248) wrote:
>>> Dear MITgcm users and developers, does anyone have experience running
>>> the MITgcm with deltat < 1 s ?
>>> 
>>> In cal_set.F there is a stop if deltat is not an integer number of
>>> seconds.  Does anyone know what will happen if we remove this check and
>>> attempt to integrate the model with deltat < 1 s ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Dimitris
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