[MITgcm-support] WTHMASS vs WVELTH

[Martin Losch]

Ivana,

have a look at diagnostics_state_fill.F
To my eye, the diagnostics WVELTH and WTHMASS are exactly the same.

Martin

> On 10. Mar 2018, at 03:58, Ivana Cerovecki <icerovecki at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys (and girls),
> 
> I am analyzing output of a model run with a linear free surface,
> for which WVELTH was saved, but WTHMASS was not saved.
> What is exactly the difference between WVELTH and WTHMASS, 
> can I use WVELTH to obtain surface correction and if so, how can I do that? 
> 
> Can I use WVELTH instead of WTHMASS, the way it is described in 
> a document that is attached? Or I just define the surface flux to
> be
> flux(:,:,1)=WVELTH(:,:,1).*RAC  ?
> Any help is highly appreciated!
> 
> Thank you very much,
> cheers,
> Ivana
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/online_documents/node269.html
> 
> 
> WTHMASS		Nr	
> Vertical Mass-Weight Transp of Pot Temp
> WVELTH		Nr	
> Vertical Transp of Pot Temp
> 
> 
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