[MITgcm-support] Baroclinic tides in MITgcm

[Matthew Mazloff]

OK, I understand now. Yes, the MITgcm could potentially generate baroclinic tides with amplitudes exceeding the barotopic amplitude. However the internal tides are forced from the barotropic tides. I don’t expect the locally driven baroclinic tides to exceed the energy of the barotropic tide by an order of magnitude. I suspect the problem is not with the MITgcm. 

If the mooring and TPXO are correct the internal wave energy the mooring is seeing may be from remote regions. How big is your domain? You may need to force at the boundary with internal tides.

Matt





> On Sep 5, 2019, at 3:04 PM, Ruan Xiaozhou <saberruan at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That’s only true for the barotropic tide, right? Couldn’t MITgcm potentially generate baroclinic tide whose velocity exceeds the barotropic amplitude? That’s the point of my first post where I was wondering if there were any pitfalls regarding the generation of baroclinic tide in the model. 
> 
> Xiaozhou 
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