[MITgcm-support] C grid and pressure

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Jody,

Thansk for your suggestion, and sorry for the trouble
it caused you. 
We will try to add this type of information in the manual.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 09:51:49AM -0800, Jody Klymak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2012, at  8:37 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> 
> >> From those output files, the pressure P can be obtained as:
> > P(i,j,k)/rhoConst = -g*rC(k) + PH(i,j,k) + PNH(i,j,k) 
> > 
> > And PHL would be the equivalent of PH (hydrostatic pressure potential anomaly)
> > but at the bottom, so that the hydrostatic pressure at the bottom Pb
> > would be: Pb(i,j)/rhoConst = g*Depth(i,j) + PHL(i,j)
> 
> I wonder if this could be documented better somewhere? I too spent a lot of time tracking this down, and still wasn't sure if it was correct. Please forgive me, if it is documented, and I didn't know where to look.
> 
> Perhaps in 3.5.1.1:
> 
> PH.0000nIter and PNH.0000nIter - ocean: hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic pressure anomallies P(i,j,k) = -g*rC(k)*rhoConst + rhoConst*PH(i,j,k)+rhoConst*PNH(i,j,k).
> 
> 
> Thanks,  Jody
> 
> 
> 
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