[MITgcm-support] KPP and zref with fine resolution vertical grid

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Oops, wrong link.  Sorry.
This is paper I had in mind: http://ecco2.org/manuscripts/2011/NguyenJGR2011.pdf

Dimitris Menemenlis

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don’t know what needs to be adjusted in your set-up.
> But every atmospheric forcing and every model configuration
> usually requires some adjustments, for example, as is described here
> for an Arctic Ocean example: http://ecco2.org/manuscripts/2011/Holloway2011.pdf
> Slowly we are converging towards better models, better resolutions,
> better atmospheric forcing fields, where these “model-climate drifts”
> will become less problematic.  But we are not quite there yet.
> What would have been surprising is if you slap a new forcing
> on top of a new model configuration and there are no drifts.
> 
> Dimitris Menemenlis
> 
>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Hazel, Julia <jhazel at atmos.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Dimitris-
>> Just to clarify, do you mean the sea-ice albedos are probably not adjusted to the AMPS forcing?
>> I thought that the exf_albedo needed to be on the order of ~.1 for water regardless.
>> Thanks,
>> Julia