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<div>Hi Ken</div>
<div>I'm really greatfull for your help</div>
<div>I had set useOBCSbalance=.TRUE. in data.obcs and I no longer had unstability problem, but the sea surface elevation quickly decreases , and while I have a tidal elevation of about 1 meter on the open boundaries, it decreases to order 0.001 m or even less
in the domain;Therefore, I think this result has a problem.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Ken Hughes <kenneth.hughes@oregonstate.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 23, 2022 11:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> mitgcm-support@mitgcm.org; Mohammadhossein Kharaghani<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MITgcm-support] model unstability caused by increasing sea surface elevation(eta)</font>
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<p style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Hi MohammadHossein,</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">You might have unbalanced fluxes on the open boundaries. Specifically, you haven't set useOBCSbalance=.TRUE. in data.obcs.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Recently, I had a regional model whose sea surface height changed by 100m over one month! The lack of balancing was the cause.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Ken Hughes<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">On 2022-08-23 11:43 a.m., Mohammadhossein Kharaghani wrote:<br>
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<p>Hello MITgcm community<br>
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<p>I have a simple model with three open boundaries in the north, east and west, and in this model that Tide is given to the model as a time series (including 8 components) up to 30 hours (more than one period).There is no problem in the topography and input
data of open boundaries. However, sea surface elevation(eta) in my model rises quickly and greatly at all points from the start of running, thus, the model quickly becomes unstable. Griding and dimensions of the model are as follows:</p>
<p>The grid in the horizontal direction is equal to ten meters and in the vertical direction it has 14 layers of 0.5, 1 and 2 meters from the surface to the floor. The range of the model is as 1.18 km x 0.8 km and the maximum depth is 15 meters.<br>
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<p>Best regards<br>
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<p>MohammadHossein<br>
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<p><strong>Data file:</strong></p>
<p> &PARM01</p>
<p> Tref = 21.084700, 21.020412, 20.977085, 20.948000, 20.928308, 20.914621, 20.896999, 20.885466, 20.877001, 20.870974, 20.864302, 20.859730, 20.857693, 20.853001,
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<p> sRef= 41.913029, 41.911030, 41.909740, 41.908958, 41.908516, 41.908287, 41.908123, 41.908012, 41.907799, 41.907497 41.907089, 41.906998, 41.906975, 41.906933,
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<p> viscAz=1.E-3,</p>
<p> viscAh=1.E-2,</p>
<p> no_slip_sides=.FALSE.,</p>
<p> no_slip_bottom=.FALSE.,</p>
<p> diffKhT=1.E-2,</p>
<p> diffKzT=1.E-3,</p>
<p> diffKhS=1.E-2,</p>
<p> diffKzS=1.E-3,</p>
<p># saltAdvScheme=4,</p>
<p> f0=0.0,</p>
<p> beta=0.E-11,</p>
<p> eosType='LINEAR',</p>
<p> tAlpha=2.E-4,</p>
<p> sBeta =0.E-4,</p>
<p> gravity=9.81,</p>
<p> implicitFreeSurface=.TRUE.,</p>
<p> rigidLid=.FALSE.</p>
<p> implicitDiffusion=.FALSE.,</p>
<p> exactConserv=.TRUE.,</p>
<p> nonHydrostatic=.FALSE.,</p>
<p> hFacMin=1.0,</p>
<p> implicSurfPress=1.0,</p>
<p> implicDiv2DFlow=1.0,</p>
<p> nonlinFreeSurf=1,</p>
<p> hFacInf=0.2,</p>
<p> hFacSup=1.8,</p>
<p> saltStepping = .FALSE.,</p>
<p> tempStepping = .FALSE.,</p>
<p>#- not safe to use globalFiles in multi-processors runs</p>
<p>#globalFiles=.TRUE.,</p>
<p> readBinaryPrec=64,</p>
<p> writeBinaryPrec=64,</p>
<p> writeStatePrec=64,</p>
<p> &</p>
<p># Elliptic solver parameters</p>
<p> &PARM02</p>
<p> cg2dMaxIters=500,</p>
<p> cg2dTargetResidual=1.E-13,</p>
<p> cg3dMaxIters=400,</p>
<p> cg3dTargetResidual=1.E-13,</p>
<p> &</p>
<p># Time stepping parameters</p>
<p> &PARM03</p>
<p> nIter0=0,</p>
<p> nTimeSteps=108000,</p>
<p> deltaT=1.0,</p>
<p> pChkptFreq=3600.,</p>
<p> chkptFreq=0.,</p>
<p> dumpFreq=3600,</p>
<p> monitorFreq=1.,</p>
<p> monitorSelect=2,</p>
<p># for time dependent open boundary conditions, activate the following 3 lines:</p>
<p> periodicExternalForcing=.TRUE.,</p>
<p> externForcingPeriod=3600.,</p>
<p> externForcingCycle =108000.,</p>
<p> &</p>
<p># Gridding parameters</p>
<p> &PARM04</p>
<p> usingCartesianGrid=.TRUE.,</p>
<p> dySpacing=10.,</p>
<p> dxSpacing=10.,</p>
<p> delZ=0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5,1.0,1.0,1.0,1.0,2.0,2.0,2.0,2.0,</p>
<p> &</p>
<p># Input datasets</p>
<p> &PARM05</p>
<p> bathyFile='TopoKharg4',</p>
<p> &<br>
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<p><strong>Data.obcs file</strong></p>
<p># Open boundaries</p>
<p> &OBCS_PARM01</p>
<p> OB_Jnorth = 118*-1,</p>
<p> OB_Iwest = 80*1,</p>
<p> OB_Ieast = 80*-1,</p>
<p> useOBCSsponge = .TRUE.,</p>
<p># This flag check and equalise topography across open boundaries:</p>
<p> OBCSfixTopo = .FALSE.,</p>
<p> useOBCSprescribe= .TRUE.,</p>
<p> OBNuFile='OBNut.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBNvFile='OBNvt.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBWuFile='OBWut.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBWvFile='OBWvt.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBEuFile='OBEut.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBEvFile='OBEvt.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBEetaFile='OBEeta.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBNetaFile='OBNeta.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBWetaFile='OBWeta.iwkharg_obcs',</p>
<p> OBCS_monitorFreq= 1.,</p>
<p> OBCS_monSelect = 1,</p>
<p> &</p>
<p> &OBCS_PARM03</p>
<p> spongeThickness= 10 ,</p>
<p> Urelaxobcsinner= 1000,</p>
<p> Vrelaxobcsinner= 1000,</p>
<p> Urelaxobcsbound= 100,</p>
<p> Vrelaxobcsbound= 100,</p>
<p> &<br>
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