[MITgcm-support] [EXTERNAL] forcing model with hflux and sflux

[Martin Losch]

You could use the fluxes (diagnosed as oceQnet, oceFWflx, but beware of the opposite sign compared to hflux/sflux) of a well-spun-up state with repeated year forcing as a starting point for your modifications. That would be like prescribing the ice cover of a previous “climatology”.

Martin

> On 5. Apr 2022, at 13:16, Margarita Markina <margarita.markina at earth.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Thanks so much to both of you!
> 
> I used ice model before cause during the model spin-up I wanted to have the sea ice consistent with my repeated year forcing, but I guess at the current stage when I want to modify atmospheric forcing it could indeed make sense to turn this off (especially if it's challenging to make the ice respond consistently to the additional perturbations of heat fluxes in the model - which wasn't obvious to me).
> 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> All the best, 
> Rita
> From: MITgcm-support <mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org> on behalf of Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 11:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] [EXTERNAL] forcing model with hflux and sflux
>  
> Hi Rita,
> 
> the code cannot apply hflux/sflux with the sea ice model turned on, because the sea ice model computes these fluxes where there is ice. Frankly, what do you need the sea ice model for, if you want to prescribe the fluxes anyway? In this sense I’d support Dimitris’ suggestion. The fluxes that you prescribe should know about the sea ice distribution. It’s like prescribing the sea ice cover. If you want to have the sea ice modify these fluxes, more work is needed (and it will be complicated to get it “right”, i.e. consistent).
> 
> You’ll have to find a solution where you allow the model to compute the fluxes (from atmospheric fields that it reads) **and** read them. Depending what you want to do exactly I would have a look at pkg/exf and pkg/seaice and comment out the stop statements that bother you. Then you’d have to prescribe both the fluxes and the atmospheric fields and modify the code so that the fluxes are not overwritten by the ones that the exf-package computes. The sea ice model will then use the atmospheric fluxes (which you have prescribed) and recompute them in grid cells with sea ice. That could work, but I have never tried it.
> 
> Martin
> 
>> On 5. Apr 2022, at 12:03, Margarita Markina <margarita.markina at earth.ox.ac.uk <mailto:margarita.markina at earth.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> It is subpolar latitudes, so I need the sea ice unfortunately 🙁
>> 
>> is there a way to force the model with hflux/sflux when sea ice module is on?
>> 
>> Or alternatively (if the former is impossible) - is there a way to add some fixed values (in certain locations) to heat fluxes computed within the model? 
>> 
>> 
>> All the best, 
>> Rita
>> From: MITgcm-support <mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org <mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org>> on behalf of Menemenlis, Dimitris (US 329B) <dimitris.menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov <mailto:dimitris.menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov>>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 10:49 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] [EXTERNAL] forcing model with hflux and sflux
>>  
>> Turn off the sea ice module ;-)
>> 
>> > On Apr 5, 2022, at 2:43 AM, Margarita Markina <margarita.markina at earth.ox.ac.uk <mailto:margarita.markina at earth.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > So, my question is -  how do I set my model so it is forced by hflux and sflux without getting errors from sea ice module?
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