[MITgcm-support] Can MITgcm simulate tide driving by water level on OBCS？

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

changing sea level at the boundary is not sufficient
you need to push water through your open boundary
using OBEuFile or OBEamFile/OBEphFile in data.obcs

see examples here:
http://mitgcm.org/viewvc/MITgcm/MITgcm_contrib/tides/
http://mitgcm.org/viewvc/MITgcm/MITgcm/verification/seaice_obcs/input.tides/

> On Nov 30, 2014, at 5:20 AM, shi wenqi <swqouc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> I am doing a tide simulation for a bay, where I generate tide waves at East open boundary through OBEetaFile。 But the result is that the sea level of all grid is zeros even after a lot of time steps! I'm so confused now.
> For now, MITgcm can't simulate tide driving by water level through OBCs？
> 
> Best regards,
> Mark zhang
> 

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