Ocean Modeling Discussion

My results also show abnormal cooling in the southern ocean, but I am hoping to fix that with the ice model, which I am trying as we speak. I am not sure if it applies to your region, but maybe adding the sea-ice module might help too!?
Other than that, good luck with the other forcing data-sets.

Have you tried as Kate proposed? You could use only downward flux instead of net, for that you just need to insert flag LONGWAVE_OUT on your cppdefs file. Would be interesting to see how it compares to the run you just showed.

Hi Ufuk, In roms_tools they use upward-downward as you mentioned, but I think their sign conventions is inverted in relation to ROMS/TOMS'es. roms/Data/ROMS/CDL/fcr_bulk.cdl, states: float swrad(time, eta_rho, xi_rho) ; swrad:long_name = "solar shortwave radiation" ; swrad:units = "Watts meter-2 ...

Thanks Kate, John and Jacopo. Great help!!

Dear Kate, thank you for the prompt reply and tips. I have been through set_data.F, bulk_flux.F, cppdefs.h, ana_srflux.h and checkdefs.F, but I still have some doubts concerning srflx. The atmospheric model I am trying to use as roms forcing provider gives me, among others: CLOUD COVER DOWNWARD LONG ...

Now in the right section, sorry for double posting. Dear ROMS users - Could anyone, please, indicate which heat fluxes should I input to ROMS when using bulk formulation? From the information in /Data/roms/CDL/fcr_bulk.cdl I couldn't understand what SWRAD (solar shortwave radiation) actually means ...

Dear all - I also have some doubts about restart/perfect_restart with ROMS. I have read the pieces of information I found here and I think I got the theory behind it. Nevertheless, I performed 3 experiments in order to evaluate how perfect_restart could (not??) affect a short run. Exp.A : 30 days ...