[MITgcm-support] Large runoff causes negative salinity

Ryan Abernathey ryan.abernathey at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 13:18:36 EDT 2016


Hi Mattia,

This could be related to your advection scheme. Please provide your full
data and data.exf files in order to help people diagnose the problem.

-Ryan

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Mattia Almansi <mattia.almansi at jhu.edu>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm setting up a configuration which includes part of Greenland's East
> coast.
> I'm having some issues with the runoff: the salinity output field is
> negative where the runoff is large. There are some large runoff values
> (e.g. 1.e-4 m/s into the fjords) because I want to include both glacier
> runoff and solid ice discharge.
> Is there any way to avoid this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mattia
>
> --
> Mattia Almansi,
> Ph.D. Student,
> Johns Hopkins University,
> Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
> 315 Olin Hall - 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
>
> e-mail: mattia.almansi at jhu.edu
>
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