hurricane driven oceanic response

[xqzhang]

I am trying to use ROMS to look at hurricane driven response.
I define an analytic gaussian wind field that moves at a constant
speed across the domain. i am not hoever getting the correct
sea surface elevation associated with reduced atmospheric pressure
in the middle of the storm. I have printed out values of pair
to confirm that i have a pressure minimum in the middle of the storm
with the coreect value, but dont think that the model is being forced
with this pressure. in a simulation with a moving pressure field only
i get no response (no wind case). i have ana_pair.h defined in the .h
file. is there some other flag that needs to be set to get the model
to respond to this pressure field? Thanks!

[kate]

This has been asked here before. Search on SLP_GRAD if this link doesn't work:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1054&p=3704&hilit=SLP_GRAD#p3704

It is not part of the standard ROMS code, but this change should work for 3-D simulations using the recommended form of the pressure gradient.