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1  Five level intermediate atmospheric physics example.  Five level intermediate atmospheric physics example.
2  Experimental configuration is an equatorial channel.   Experimental configuration is an equatorial channel
3  +/- 30 degrees wide with a warm pool SST anomaly extending over   of 65 degrees wide cented on the Equator. A warm SST anomaly
4  twenty degrees zonally and +/- 10 degrees meridionally.   with a gaussian shape is defined at the center of the domain
5     with an extension of ~30 degrees meridionally and ~60 degrees
6     zonally.
7    
8    The local copy of S/R aim_surf_bc.F (in code directory) provide
9    a) the SST field (hard coded).
10    b) the time in the year is fixed and corresponds to the spring equinox;
11     this ensures a symetric forcing between N & S hemispheres.
12    The model uses the standard 5-level vertical resolution of the Speedy_v23
13     code; the horizontal resolution is 2.8125 with 128x23 grid points.
14    
15  ====================================================================  ====================================================================
16    
17  o To reproduce the run :  o To reproduce the run :
18    
19  The genmake options are in .genmakerc, so that the simplest form  The genmake options are in .genmakerc, so that the simplest form
20  of genmake can be used :  of genmake can be used :
21  cd input  cd build
22  ../../../tools/genmake  ../../../tools/genmake2 -mods=../code [-of= ... if needed]
23  make depend  make depend
24  make  make
25    
26    ln -s ../input/* .
27  mitgcmuv  mitgcmuv
28    
29  ---------------------------  ---------------------------
30  Notes:  Notes:
31  * To produce a short test that is relevant for the Atmosphere physics part,  * To produce a short test that is relevant for the Atmosphere physics part,
32    a restart file (pickup.0000008640) is included. Otherwise, starting from    a restart file (pickup.0000051840) is included. The model reaches
33    rest requires several days of spin up.    a statistical equilibrium after 1 year.
34  * Need to add a sink of heat or a restoring term near N & S boundaries  * the file aim_SST.* contains the SST field.
35    to balance the radiative heating. As it is now, it cannot be integrated  * Since aim pkg uses arrays with MAX_NO_THREADS as dimension, the maximum
36    more than 7 or 8 months.    number of treads is set to 1 (in code/EEPARAMS.h) instead of 32, so that the
37  * many sources in "code" are identical or very similar to the "aim_5l_LatLon"    size of the executable is reduced. This obviously needs to be changed
38    test and will became part of the pkg/aim code.    before compiling on a multi-threaded platform.
39  ---------------------------  ---------------------------
40  Northern boundary :  Northern boundary :
41  o initially, the domain (SIZE.h) 128x24x5 with a land line as the Northern  o initially, the domain (SIZE.h) 128x24x5 with a land line as the Northern

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