[MITgcm-support] Managing the euphotic zone with RADTRANS

[Dattilo, Francesco]

Sorry for the re-post,

But do you even know where I can find more information about radtrans in
order to fix this problem?

Thank you so much.

Best regards,

Francesco Dattilo

Il giorno lun 7 ago 2023 alle ore 18:30 Dattilo, Francesco <fdattilo at ogs.it>
ha scritto:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm working with a 1D biogeochemical model by using the DARWIN package.
> For spectral light description I'm using the RADTRANS package, but I have
> a doubt regarding it.
> In particular, I've noticed that my spectral components go extinct very
> soon, in the first 20 meters of the water column (really naively, I'm
> expecting the euphotic zone at least in the first 100 meters).
> Firstly, I thought it was related to the parameter "RT_kmax" set in
> RADTRANS_PARAMETERS namelist, because it sets the maximum depth index for
> radtrans computations. However, also by putting the maximum layer index
> still this problem remains.
> I'm sure it is not a problem of bad initialization values, because I did
> several tests also with some examples provided by MIT and still I get the
> same.
> So I think it could be related to some parameter that still is obscure to
> me, having started to work with this package recently.
>
> Do you know some other parameters involved in shaping the euphotic zone's
> depth? Or maybe someone else has already faced this problem?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> All the best,
>
> Francesco Dattilo
>
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