[MITgcm-support] variable gravity

[Angela Marie Zalucha]

Hello,

I am currently working on applying the MIT GCM to Pluto's atmosphere. 
Pluto's atmosphere is very extended compared with the its solid body 
radius, and so the assumption of constant gravitational acceleration with 
height becomes no longer a good approximation.  i.e., I need the 1/r^2 
dependence.  I was wondering if anyone has made this modification and if 
not how easy it would be to do.

I use the atmosphere model in r* coordinates.

Thanks,
   Angela



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Angela Zalucha, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Earth, Atmospheric,
   and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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