Partial use of bulk algorithm for surface fluxes in ROMS

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saulo
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Partial use of bulk algorithm for surface fluxes in ROMS

#1 Unread post by saulo »

Dear forum,

Can I use the bulk algorithm just to compute my momentum stresses and then set all the other fluxes to zero?
I assume the COARE 3.0 bulk algo will only work with a specific meteorological input.
Say I have all kinds of meteo data from a reanalysis for input to ROMS. But I only care about real accurate tau.
Can I do the above without altering the .Fs source code files, just from namelists or cpp flags?

Thanks!
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Saulo Soares
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Dept Oceanography
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Re: Partial use of bulk algorithm for surface fluxes in ROMS

#2 Unread post by kate »

No, you will have to change the code to do this. Easiest is probably to use the provided bulk_flux.F and just set the other fluxes to zero before the exchange at the bottom of the routine. Give it a new cpp flag:

# ifdef ZERO_FLUX
...
# endif

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