[MITgcm-support] advection of ice-melange

Mainak Mondal mm10845 at nyu.edu
Mon Aug 9 04:28:15 EDT 2021


Great! thanks

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:20 PM Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:

> PS. I found it: https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/issues/327
> http://mailman.mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2020-January/012328.html
>
> > On 9. Aug 2021, at 10:16, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mainak,
> >
> > I remember faintly, that in situations like this, the dynamics solver
> may have difficulties to get started (and there’s an MITgcm-support thread
> about this, but I could not find it, so I don’t if it got fixed). Please
> try this:
> > 1. add LSR_mixIniGuess = 2, (or 4). This computes a free drift solution
> and initialises the LSR solver with this free drift solution and should get
> it going
> > 2. just use free drift. To do so set
> > SEAICEuseFREEDRIFT = .TRUE., (#define SEAICE_ALLOW_FREEDRIFT only
> compiles the corresponding code, but doesn’t turn it on).
> > LSR_mixIniGuess = 0, (or comment out again)
> >
> > For your melange, a free drift solution is probably appropriate, but I
> would be particularly interested in what happens in the first option.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >> On 9. Aug 2021, at 09:57, Mainak Mondal <mm10845 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> There is a subglacial plume at the eastern boundary. It is coming up to
> the top and making a surface expression. There is the u component of
> velocity that should push the ice-melange. In the SEAICE_OPTIONS , I have
> already turned on the
> >> #define SEAICE_ALLOW_FREEDRIFT
> >>
> >> In the data.seaice I used
> >> # SEAICE parameters
> >> &SEAICE_PARM01
> >> SEAIcewriteState =.TRUE.,
> >> # SEAICE_initialHEFF= 0.5,
> >> SEAICE_EPS =1.E-8,
> >> SEAICEuseDYNAMICS =.TRUE.,
> >> HeffFile='Heff2.bin',
> >> # AreaFile='Area1.bin',
> >> SEAICEadvHeff=.TRUE.,
> >> SEAICE_no_slip = .TRUE.,
> >> &
> >>
> >> &SEAICE_PARM03
> >> &
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:37 AM Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Mainak,
> >>
> >> You need some kind of forcing, either by wind or be water. Can you
> confirm that the water in the grid cells covered by your ice-melange (not
> clear how you define that in the sea ice model) is moving in some way?
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>> On 8. Aug 2021, at 10:53, Mainak Mondal <mm10845 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Recently I was trying to advect ice-melange in MITgcm. I used sea-ice
> package and created an ice-melange over a 5 by 5 grid cell with an Heff=1m
> while the rest Heff=0. I used the following options in data.seaice
> >>>
> >>> # SEAICE parameters
> >>> &SEAICE_PARM01
> >>> SEAIcewriteState =.TRUE.,
> >>> SEAICE_EPS =1.E-8,
> >>> SEAICEuseDYNAMICS =.TRUE.,
> >>> HeffFile='Heff1.bin',
> >>> SEAICEadvHeff=.TRUE.,
> >>> &
> >>> I am not putting any wind forcing but the melange is placed next to a
> subglacial plume, which was forced by the obcs package. The ice-melange is
> melting and sea-ice is growing around it.
> >>> However, the ice-melange remains static at its location throughout.
> Any clue how I shall be able to advect it? I would really appreciate your
> help.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Mainak Mondal
> >>> Post-Doctoral Associate
> >>> A2 104-C
> >>> Center for Global Sea Level Change
> >>> New York University Abu Dhabi
> >>> ph: +971 26285339
> >>>
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> >> Center for Global Sea Level Change
> >> New York University Abu Dhabi
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*Mainak Mondal*
Post-Doctoral Associate
A2 104-C
Center for Global Sea Level Change
New York University Abu Dhabi
ph: +971 26285339
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