[MITgcm-support] do ocetaux and ocetauy reflect cell-averaged stress in a sea-ice model?

[Daniel Goldberg]

Hello All!

I would like to apply surface stress to an ocean model without the sea ice package implemented, but using the effective surface stress — i.e. that imposed by sea ice, and imposed by winds where there is no sea ice — from a similar run using the sea ice package.

Would the diagnostics OceTAUX and OceTAUY be appropriate for this? They save the arrays fu() and fv(), which i know are updated by the sea ice model, but im not sure if they are saved at the correct point in a time step.

Many thanks if anyone can advise!
Dan


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