[MITgcm-support] Solution blows up

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Igor,

1. you could have density overturns in the interpolated field, and those will manifest as high vertical velocities that violate the CFL criterion.

2. you likely have some fast adjustment that is violating CFL and may need to use a smaller timestep for a little while until the model adjusts.  

The fact you tried “different time steps” says that maybe the problem is more complicated, but it would be good to look at STDOUT.0000 and see what the cfl criterion is saying. 

Cheers,   Jody

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