River Discharge in ROMS

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praveen · #1 Unread post by **praveen** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:09 am

hi ROMS users,

Is there any way to include River discharge in ROMS ?

Thanks in advance

Praveen V K

jacopo · #2 Unread post by **jacopo** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:53 am

you need to define
TS_PSOURCE for salinity and/or temperature sources/sinks
and/or
UV_PSOURCE for mass sources/sinks
due to river runoff.

You can either add discharge data analytically (in analytical.F) or writing a full NetCDF forcing file. You can find examples on how to write such a river forcing file in the "matlab" package at
https://www.myroms.org/index.php?page=Processing
you may also be interested in this
viewtopic.php?t=63

You will be asked to define the vertical profile of the flushing. There is not yet a clear rule about this. You can refere to the topic
viewtopic.php?t=60
and
viewtopic.php?t=79

gl & hf
Jacopo