# Open-boundaries
 &OBCS_PARM01
# This flag turns off checking and fixing problematic topography across 
# open boundaries. We set it here to override the default because
# we want to reproduce old results (including their bugs).

 OBCSfixTopo=.TRUE.,
 useOBCSprescribe=.TRUE.,
 useOBCSsponge=.TRUE.,
#OBCS_monitorFreq= 1200.,

 OB_Jsouth=660*1,
 OB_Iwest=480*1,
 OB_Ieast=480*-1,

 OBSsFile='OBSs_J2D_obcs',
 OBStFile='OBSt_J2D_obcs',
 OBSuFile='OBSu_J2D_obcs',
 OBSvFile='OBSv_J2D_obcs',

 OBWsFile='OBWs_J2D_obcs',
 OBWtFile='OBWt_J2D_obcs',
 OBWuFile='OBWu_J2D_obcs',
 OBWvFile='OBWv_J2D_obcs',

 OBEsFile='OBEs_J2D_obcs',
 OBEtFile='OBEt_J2D_obcs',
 OBEuFile='OBEu_J2D_obcs',
 OBEvFile='OBEv_J2D_obcs',

 useOBCSbalance=.TRUE.,
 OBCS_balanceFacW= 0.,
 OBCS_balanceFacS= 1.,
 OBCS_balanceFacE= 0.,

 &

 &OBCS_PARM03
 Urelaxobcsinner=432000.E0,
 Urelaxobcsbound=43200.E0,
 Vrelaxobcsinner=432000.E0,
 Vrelaxobcsbound=43200.E0,
 spongeThickness=25,
 &