Changeset 1818 for trunk/LMDZ.MARS/README

Timestamp:

Nov 3, 2017, 1:57:01 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

jaudouard

Message:

Final update from J.A. about the CO2 clouds scheme for the LMDZ.MARS GCM

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• trunk/LMDZ.MARS/README (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/LMDZ.MARS/README

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 - Some cleaning of the CO2 ice clouds routine has been done. Not perfect yet!
  
-== 02/10/2017 == JA
+== 02/11/2017 == JA
 - Update for CO2 clouds scheme.
 - Several bugs have been corrected, further cleaning performed.
 - The main routine of co2 clouds is co2cloud.F. Please read its comments if interested.
 
+== 03/11/2017 == JA
+- Further cleaning of the CO2 ice clouds code
+- We can now have different micro-timesteps bewteen the water ice clouds and the co2 ice clouds
+- callphys.def needs imicroco2 = integer (typically 50) (water microtimestep is imicro=integer)
+- A filter based on Spiga et al 2012 Saturation index has been implemented. It is supposed to represent
+  if a gravity wave propagates to the mesosphere or not (wheter the wave saturates on its way or not). 
+  The sub-grid temperature distribution is cancelled if the saturation index value of the column (between 12 and 80 km) is > 0.1, and is applied (+/- 3K) otherwise. if the keyword satindexco2=.true. in callphys.def (only applies if CLFvaryingCO2=.true. anyway). If set to .false., deactivate this filter and the sub grid T distribution applies everywhere and everytime. See comments in co2clouds.F
+- All that you need to launch a GCM run with co2 clouds is described in co2clouds.F comments. Ehouarn Millour and Anni Määttänen have the files.