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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m hoping to get the external forcing impact on T,S,U, and V in terms of a temperature (K/s), salinity (g/kg/s) and velocity (m/s2) tendency. For the velocity fields I think this is fairly straightforward: Um_Ext and Vm_Ext seem to provide
exactly what I’m looking for, and a crude rescaling of EXFtaux and EXFtauy [dividing by the product of a constant reference density (rho0) and upper layer thickness (10m)] compares well to Um_Ext and Vm_Ext.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a bit stumped by the equivalent output for T and S, though. It seems from the manual that I want gT_Forc and gS_Forc, but these fields do not compare as well to -EXFqnet/(rho0*cp*10m) and (EXFempmr*S0)/(rho0*10m) at the surface, particularly
in the polar oceans (which is perhaps expected). However, my gT_Forc and gS_Forc output is three-dimensional, which is not what I expected – the source code only seems to refer to, e.g., gtForc(i,j).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are these fields what I’m looking for? Where does the extra dimension come from in the final output?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your help!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dafydd</p>
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