[MITgcm-support] 1851 Input choice

[Martin Losch]

Tobia,

runoff is probably not critical and you could consider using a climatology. 
Do you want to force the model with net heat flux and net fresh water flux alone? Often, these “hindcast" experiments are forced by downward radiation, wind and preciptation (and runoff). Then, upward radiation, wind stress and evaporation are computed by bulk formulae from the ocean state (and the forcing fields). Have a look at EXF_OPTIONS.h for example combinations (and the appropriate CPP-flags that you need to specify).

Martin

> On 31 Aug 2015, at 12:25, Tudino, Tobia <tt282 at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> I would like to run a MITgcm run for the entire industrial era.
> However, although I have found all the main forcing files for 1851 (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/reanalysis/reanalysis.shtml), I cannot identify any reanalysis at global scale for both the runoff and the evaporation.
> This means that I cannot estimate the empmr.bin and, so, i cannot rune the model since that specific year.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Tobia
> 
> Tobia Tudino
> tt282 at exeter.ac.uk
> PhD Student
> Geography
> College of Life and Environmental Science
> Skype: tobia.tudino
> 
> 
> 
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