[MITgcm-support] Qnet and Qsw heat fluxes after ceckpointc54

[quentin jamet]

Hi all,

I am running a forced ocean model on the CS-grid shape at low resolution.
I have questioning about heat fluxes.
When looking at the definition of Qnet (surface net heat flux) in FFIELD.h,
I can read :
Qnet = latent + sensible + net longwave + net shortwave

So I concluded that shortwave heating has to be included into the QnetFile.
This is coherent with external_fields_load.F where Qsw data are added to Q
data to obtain Qnet data.
So if I directly prescribe a QnetFile, it is the same that prescribing a
Qfile and a QswFile.
But in external_forcing_surf.F, Qsw is also added to Qnet :

C     Net heat flux Qnet:
          surfaceForcingT(i,j,bi,bj) = surfaceForcingT(i,j,bi,bj)
     &       - ( Qnet(i,j,bi,bj)
#ifdef SHORTWAVE_HEATING
     &          -Qsw(i,j,bi,bj)
#endif
     &         ) *recip_Cp*mass2rUnit

I so wonder which file do I have to prescibe to obtain a total heat flux
containing shortwave heating?

Thanks in advance

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Quentin Jamet
'*Le vent nous pousse toujours, il s'agit de savoir dans quel sens!*'
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