#140 closed defect (fixed)

Expandstartfi.e weird at poles

Reported by: jnaar Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: MARS GCM Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

When examining the field "area" with startfi files using the "expandstartfi" script, the poles are treated differently than everywhere else, with a larger area than their neighbors. Seems like something we wouldn't want to do since area normally varies with cos(lat).

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 19 months ago by emillour

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The problem for the mesh area at the poles is simply that in the GCM physics this is a single (large) mesh. expandstartfi should account for that when splitting values over multiple longitudes.

Fixed with r2990

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