--- manual/s_phys_pkgs/text/gridalt.tex 2004/10/12 18:16:03 1.2 +++ manual/s_phys_pkgs/text/gridalt.tex 2005/07/18 20:45:27 1.4 @@ -1,15 +1,10 @@ -\section{Gridalt - Alternate Grid Package} +\subsection{Gridalt - Alternate Grid Package} \label{sec:pkg:gridalt} \begin{rawhtml} \end{rawhtml} -\subsection {Introduction} -To take advantage of a `high end' turbulence parameterization -(and convection parameterization), the vertical resolution near the surface -must be increased substantially as compared to the vertical resolution needed -aloft. This cannot be accomplished if the high end physics is computed using -the $p^*$ coordinate currently in use in the MIT gcm. +\subsubsection {Introduction} The gridalt package was developed to allow the high end atmospheric physics (fizhi) physics to be run on a separate grid from the hydrodynamics. The package @@ -23,7 +18,7 @@ \begin{figure}[htbp] \vspace*{-0.4in} \begin{center} -\includegraphics[height=2.4in]{vertical.eps} +\includegraphics[height=2.4in]{part6/vertical.eps} \end{center} \end{figure} @@ -55,15 +50,15 @@ the state variables on the modified vertical grid to `track' the state variables on the $p^*$ grid on some time scale, $\gamma$. -\subsection {Key subroutines, parameters and files } +\subsubsection {Key subroutines, parameters and files } -\subsection {Dos and donts} +\subsubsection {Dos and donts} In the context of a Held-Suarez type of model experiment (located -in the fizhi-hs.cs-32x32x10 verification experiment) with +in the fizhi-gridalt-hs verification experiment) with topography, the forcing terms which represent the physics are computed on the modified grid. The forcing terms are computed as functions of the state variables on the modified grid. The tendencies are then interpolated to the standard grid -\subsection {Gridalt Reference} +\subsubsection {Gridalt Reference}