[MITgcm-support] MOM_BOUNDARY_CONSERVE

Jean-Michel Campin jmc at ocean.mit.edu
Mon Oct 3 21:07:35 EDT 2011


Hi Christopher,

I think this option (MOM_BOUNDARY_CONSERVE) will not do much with vertical 
wall (several levels high). 
The "thin wall" corresponds to a wall with no dry temperature point, 
so it does not apply to your case.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Christopher L. Wolfe wrote:
> 
> Hi Jean-Michel,
> 
> I guess I'm just wondering if it's anything I need to worry about. I'm trying to do a momentum budget for a simulation and I'm having problems near the boundaries. I noticed this routing, but I couldn't figure out if it was relevant in my case. I have straight vertical walls that are one grid cell thick, so nothing complicated.
> 
> There's also a note in mom_?_sidedrag.F about not getting the correct result for `thin' walls. Is one grid cell thin or thick?
> 
> Thanks,
> Christopher
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Christopher L. Wolfe              	   858-534-4560
> Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD  clwolfe at ucsd.edu
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> 
> > Hi Christopher,
> > 
> > I remember adding this piece of code for Max (for this type of set-up: 
> > http://mitgcm.org/2009/07/31/tidal-mixing-over-rough-topography/ )
> > but I don't know if anyone else try it. 
> > I would need to check exactly what it's doing, but remember that
> > there was some limitations (steps of higher than 1 level ? and
> > similar thing regarding lateral ground position ?) that were not 
> > an issue in Max set-up.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jean-Michel
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 07:00:40PM -0700, Christopher L. Wolfe wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> Can anyone explain what the option MOM_BOUNDARY_CONSERVE in mom_fluxform does? If it does what it sounds like it does (i.e. conserve momentum along the boundary), can anyone tell me why it's #undef'd by default in MOM_FLUXFORM_OPTIONS.h?
> >> 
> >> It looks like this code was added by Jean-Michel, so perhaps he knows ...
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Christopher
> >> 
> 

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