<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running a regional model of the Ross Sea with atmospheric forcing, sea ice and ice shelf<br></div><div>I'm observing strange things in some output field, and in particular in some of the fields calculated by the EXF package. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In the EXF module I'm giving in input pressure, winds, precipitation, evaporation, heat fluxes and downward lw and sw radiative fluxes, and I've set the #define to have the configuration  A2+B5 as indicated in EXF_OPTIONS.h. I'm also using the SEAICE package with mostly default parameters, OBCS with/without sponge layer.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm observing big negative values in Eta (and Eta not being zero on land or ice shelf), and big discontinuities at some boundary in the FU,FV, EmPmR, Qnet fields. I didn't use the interpolation option, as I remapped the fields offline and they don't have discontinuities in the original files. Some seaice-related fields have also discontinuities at domain edges, and seaice is missing in some region (maybe because of low thickness that was cut off).</div><div><br></div><div>I attach the configuration and the output files; in results there is a STDOUT, and files with suffix "extra" contain surface climate fields as calculated by the model. The ERA5 file is the first timestep of the climate input forcing, the glorys_2000 file (reanalysis data) is the first timestep of a monthly average that I used to make initial conditions and set conditions at OB. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In netcdf results, 2016 is a week output, 8064 28 day output, starting date 2000-01-01<br></div><div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/inogs.it/file/d/1eURkfwEPimHA0GaQitjUQWgRSXK34sTs/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">code.tar.gz</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/inogs.it/file/d/1ogzKq15Xtd6vPfYyCh-zyxp5Wbfyuhby/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none;vertical-align:bottom">ERA5_ross_3hrs_2000_regrid_sample.nc.tar.gz</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; top: -1px; display: none;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/inogs.it/file/d/1jUbAUnhtslIVROFXa8znwHDuD9cx-Fr2/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding:1px 0;border:none"><img style="vertical-align: bottom; border: none;" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png"> <span dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:bottom">glorys_2000_monthly_final_jan.nc.tar.gz</span></a><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/common/x_8px.png" style="opacity: 0.55; cursor: pointer; float: right; top: -1px;"></div><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);line-height:1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/a/inogs.it/file/d/1wW1HfdgRdKtfG2K6QITIzQuMVRdn6amO/view?usp=drive_web" target="_blank" style="display:inline-block;max-width:366px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;padding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