[MITgcm-support] if the ocean surface current is subtracted from the atmospheric wind in calculating of latent and sensible heat fluxes when the realtive wind is concerned

[Martin Losch]

Yang,

the answer is “yes” (as far as I can tell, but you can check for yourself): after reading uwind (and vwind) in exf_getffields.F a new uwind is computed as
           uwind(i,j,bi,bj) = uwind(i,j,bi,bj) - 0.5 _d 0 *
     &          (uVel(i,j,1,bi,bj)+uVel(i+1,j,1,bi,bj))
and from then on uwind (and vwind) are used for all computations of wind stress and friction velocities (that go into latent and sensible heat, first in exf_wind.F and then in exf_bulkformulae.F).

Martin


> On 23 May 2016, at 16:17, wuyang at nuist.edu.cn wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> The ocean surface current is subtracted from the atmospheric wind in the calculation of wind stress when the relative wind is set as "TRUE" in the file of data.exf.
> 
> And the question is that  if the ocean surface current is also subtracted from the atmospheric wind in calculating of latent and sensible heat fluxes when the  realtive wind is concerned ?
> 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Yang
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