[MITgcm-support] specify W on the obcs

[Yangxin He]

Hey there,


I am doing a very simple simulation, sending internal tide in the region from the right/west boundary. I used obcs package and specify my tide parameters U/V/W/T in the obcs_calc.F.


However, recently I came across a previous post in the MITgcm support correspondence, in which people said, according to my understanding that, we cannot specify the vertical velocity W using the obcs because W will be solved from the incompressibility condition. Some other guy tried to use obcs prescribe to read in W and the code failed to run. But I specified W and my code runs alright. Pretty confused about this contradiction here.


Can anyone clear the doubt a bit? Thanks.


Yangxin
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