[MITgcm-support] documentation about OBC Orlanski and Balance Flow

[Camille Mazoyer]

Dear all,
I just start using MITgcm as I will use it during my thesis for creating 
a configuration on the rade de Toulon, France.
Currently, I'm trying to understand how open boundary conditions work, 
with these two steps:
- orlanski scheme wich seems to be a predictor step, if I understand 
well, where we use the pression of the previous step. We calculate 
velocities, temperature and salinity we will have to correct during the 
next step
- use of balance flow wich seems to be a corrector step of these 
variables (Is this right?)
I only find a few explanations in the doc (mainly explaining the CPP 
Key). I also have read the paper of Orlanski, 1976.
Would you have more documentations / publications about the method used 
in the MITgcm (orlanski and balance flow)? (about the numerical part, or 
the method, ...)

Thank you very much for your help,
Camille Mazoyer

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Camille Mazoyer
Phd Student
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO)
Université de TOULON
Bat X - CS 60584
83041 TOULON cedex 9
France
  http://mio.pytheas.univ-amu.fr/