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<div class="">I’m currently forcing a nested patch with 4 open boundaries. I use realistic atmospheric forcing and also T/S/U/V from reanalysis datasets. However, when I compare the near-bottom tidal flow in my output with mooring observations, the simulated
tidal flow is almost an order of magnitude smaller. I think this is due to baroclinic tidal signal since the tidal amplitude from TPXO is already an order of magnitude smaller (both at the open boundaries in my model and at the point of comparison in TPXO).
I was wondering if anyone had similar issues before? I’m using <font face="Helvetica Neue" size="2" class="">bottomDragQuadratic=0.002 and a uniform dz = 10m which should be high enough to resolve all the baroclinic modes. Thanks in advance for your help!</font></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class="">Best,</span></div>
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Xiaozhou Ruan<br class="">
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Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences<br class="">
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br class="">
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web: http://www.mit.edu/~xruan</div>
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