Changeset 6320 for trunk/DOC/TexFiles/Chapters/Chap_TRA.tex

Timestamp:

2016-02-17T16:24:34+01:00 (8 years ago)

Author:

mathiot

Message:

ISF: update documentation

File:

• trunk/DOC/TexFiles/Chapters/Chap_TRA.tex (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/DOC/TexFiles/Chapters/Chap_TRA.tex

@@ -734 +734 @@
 (see \S\ref{SBC_rnf} for further detail of how it acts on temperature and salinity tendencies)
 
+$\bullet$ \textit{fwfisf}, the mass flux associated with ice shelf melt, (see \S\ref{SBC_isf} for further details 
+on how the ice shelf melt is computed and applied).
+
 The surface boundary condition on temperature and salinity is applied as follows:
 \begin{equation} \label{Eq_tra_sbc}
@@ -1382 +1385 @@
                    I've changed "derivative" to "difference" and "mean" to "average"}
 
-With partial bottom cells (\np{ln\_zps}=true), in general, tracers in horizontally 
+With partial cells (\np{ln\_zps}=true) at bottom and top (\np{ln\_isfcav}=true), in general, tracers in horizontally 
 adjacent cells live at different depths. Horizontal gradients of tracers are needed 
 for horizontal diffusion (\mdl{traldf} module) and for the hydrostatic pressure 
-gradient (\mdl{dynhpg} module) to be active. 
+gradient (\mdl{dynhpg} module) to be active. The partial cell properties 
+at the top (\np{ln\_isfcav}=true) are computed in the same way as for the bottom. So, only the bottom interpolation is shown.
 \gmcomment{STEVEN from gm : question: not sure of  what -to be active- means}
+
 Before taking horizontal gradients between the tracers next to the bottom, a linear 
 interpolation in the vertical is used to approximate the deeper tracer as if it actually