Changeset 2561 for trunk/LMDZ.MARS/README

Timestamp:

Sep 13, 2021, 12:19:38 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

jnaar

Message:

Water cycle flag update & addition :

• "cap_albedo" renamed "cst_cap_albedo" (default false) : if true, water ice cap albedo remains constant even when frost with higher albedo condensates on it
• "refill_watercap" added (default false) : turns h2o_ice_s into watercap when above a given threshold
• "frost_metam_threshold" added (default 0.05 km.m-2) : threshold used by "refill_watercap"

JN

File:

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

trunk/LMDZ.MARS/README

@@ -3450 +3450 @@
 - incorporate auxilliary inistats and mkstats routines in wstats_mod.F90
 - move flag "callstats" from callkeys.h to being a module variable of wstats_mod
+
+== 13/09/2021 == JN
+Water-cycle cleanup, clarifications and additions.
+- flag "cap_albedo" renamed "cst_cap_albedo" for clarity. When set to true, watercaptag grid cells albedo
+remains constant even when frost condensates on it. Only useful when albedo of frost and cap are different
+(default is false)
+- addition of two flags "refill_watercap" and "frost_metam_threshold". Refill_watercap is used to convert
+h2o_ice_s into watercap if the amount of h2o_ice_s is above the frost_metam_threshold (on watercaptag only).
+One could see it as water frost converted into perennial ice.