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2019WP/ENHANCE-12_SimonM-Tides – NEMO
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ENHANCE-12_SimonM-Tides

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  1. Summary
  2. Preview
    1. Current implementation of tidal forcing
    2. Proposed addition of an alternative set of tidal component parameters
    3. Proposed combination of tide-related functionality into one module in a new source-code subdirectory OCE/TDE
    4. Previewer's comments
    5. Reply to previewer's comments
    6. Previewer's comments
  3. Tests
  4. Review

Summary

This action aims to enhance the implementation of tidal forcing with the addition of an optional, alternative parameter set for the harmonic expansion of the tide potential and by converting a currently fixed coefficient into a configurable namelist parameter; this work has previously been implemented and tested by Nicolas Bruneau in a pre-4.0beta version of NEMO.

Further, this action aims to reduce the total number of modules related to tides (the current implementation comprises the modules sbctide, tideini, tide_mod, updtide, and bdytide) and to thereby somewhat simplify the current implementation of tidal forcing.

See ticket #2194.

Preview

Current implementation of tidal forcing

The current implementation of tide-related functionality is distributed across a number of files and there are intertwined dependencies across the tide-related modules. The current implementation of tidal forcing (tidal potential and forcing at open boundaries) comprises five modules (in separate files):

In addition, the parameters for the current set of selectable tidal constituents are supplied via an include file (source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/SBC/tide.h90). Further, the computation of the surface pressure gradient (source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/DYN/dynspg.F90 and source:NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/DYN/dynspg_ts.F90) with activated tidal potential as well as the harmonic analysis (module diaharm, source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/DIA/diaharm.F90) call subroutines and access variables of the modules listed above.

Proposed addition of an alternative set of tidal component parameters

The proposed revision of the tidal-forcing functionality of NEMO allows for the possibility to apply tidal boundary conditions that are derived from the FES2014 version of the Global Tide FES data product, which provides tide elevations, currents and loadings for 34 tidal components (https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/auxiliary-products/global-tide-fes.html). It includes the addition of an alternative tidal-component parameter set that extends the currently available set of tidal components (19 components; source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/SBC/tide.h90) to correspond to the full range of components available in the FES2014 data product.

The coefficients for the proposed new parameter set have already been compiled, and the coefficients relating to the equilibrium tide amplitudes of all components (including those of the 19 components available in the current model version) have newly been recomputed in a form that is compatible with the conventions used for the existing tidal forcing implementation.

Further, the proposed revision adds long-periodic components (if selected) to the tide potential that currently only comprises the selected diurnal and semidiurnal components.

For reproducibility of the current tidal forcing, a new namelist parameter, ln_tide_var, is proposed to permit the combined selection of tidal parameter set and variant of tide-potential computation; the proposed default is the revised parameter set and the inclusion of long-periodic tides in the tide-potential computation.

Proposed combination of tide-related functionality into one module in a new source-code subdirectory OCE/TDE

The basis of the proposed simplified and clarified tidal-forcing implementation is:

  • the merging of most of the current tide-related functionality from modules sbctide, tideini, and updtide into module tide_mod; and
  • the provision of an appropriate public interface in module tide_mod for access to module subroutines and data as required by other modules (sbctide, dynspg, dynspg_ts, bdytides, diaharm).

Further, specific proposed modifications of the tide-related code include:

  1. the addition of a new namelist parameter rn_love_number with a default value of 0.7 that replaces the hard-coded Love-number coefficient in subroutine tide_init_potential (currently in module sbctide);
  1. the renaming of the current namelist parameters that violate the namelist parameter naming convention (renaming of parameters rndttideramp and clname to rn_tide_ramp_dt and sn_tide_cnames, respectively);
  1. the replacement of the array Wave that contains parameters for all available tidal components by an array (tide_components) that is returned by a new reentrant initialisation subroutine (tide_init_components) and only contains the parameters for the selected components, thereby enabling the reading in of alternative tidal parameter databases with differing numbers of components, simplifying the implementation (the subsetting of the database using an array of selected indices, ntide, would no longer be required), and making it possible to reuse the initialisation subroutine (e.g., it can be used when a subroutine of module diaharm requests a list of harmonics parameters for a specific subset of tidal components, see item e below);
  1. the simplification of the internal representation of amplitudes, frequencies, and phases of the selected tidal components in the new public array tide_harmonics (for internal use as well as for external access of tidal harmonics information by module bdytides) that contains variables of a new type tide_harmonic,
   TYPE, PUBLIC :: tide_harmonic
      CHARACTER(LEN=4) :: name
      REAL(wp) :: f
      REAL(wp) :: omega
      REAL(wp) :: u
      REAL(wp) :: v
   END TYPE tide_harmonic,

and which replaces the arrays omega_tide, v0tide, utide, ftide (and additionally stores the names of the components; this feature would be used by subroutine tide_harmo, see item e, and module bdytides, see item i);

  1. the extension of subroutine tide_harmo of module tide_mod so that it optionally accepts an array of tidal-component names and, if called with such a list of names, returns a pointer to an array of elements of type tide_harmonic that have been filled with the tidal harmonic parameters for the respective components (this proposed development would make use of developments described in items c and d, and take into account the modification described in item g);
  1. the simplified daily synchronisation of the temporal tidal-forcing update in subroutine sbc_tide (module sbctide) using a single call to a new subroutine tide_update of module tide_mod (this proposed subroutine would include calls to subroutines tide_harmo and tide_init_potential and the output of tide-related information);
  1. the replacement of the use of variable nset_day by the value of an argument (passed via subroutine tide_harmo) in subroutine astronomic_angle (module tide_mod), in order to remove the dangerous temporary modification of nday_sec in module sbcmod;
  1. the modification of subroutine upd_tide, called in the computation of the surface pressure gradient, so that instead of kt and kt_tide only the time between midnight and the current (sub)timestep is required as argument (this makes the setting of kt_tide in module sbctide unnecessary); and
  1. in module bdytide, the replacement of references to variables Wave, ftide, omega, utide, and v0tide by references to components of variable tide_harmonics.

Previewer's comments

Looks good to me. Maybe an example of the new input format for tidal components would be welcome.

Suggestions:

  • Clarify the use of complex conjugate in some places of the code. At least this option should be suppressed for boundary data files as it is a recurrent source of error.
  • Clean the bdytide module. There are useless routines. I think that one used to set tidal open boundary data at each barotropic time step, which made things more complex.

Reply to previewer's comments

The previewer's comments concern the implementation of the lateral tidal boundary conditions in module bdytides (source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/BDY/bdytides.F90) and include valuable suggestions that would improve the proposed action. The original proposed revision of module bdytides solely includes adaptations required to accommodate modifications proposed to be made elsewhere, but neither includes a substantial modification of the module's functionality nor changes the format of tidal boundary-condition input data.

The previewer suggests to suppress the option to internally replace the tidal boundary condition by its complex conjugate. This would both simplify the implementation and reduce the risk for configuration errors. If required, such conversion can be included in the preparation of the input data. In addition to the simplification suggested by the previewer, module bdytides could be further reduced by removing the optional extraction of the tidal boundary condition along boundary segments from two-dimensional data fields, which, if required, can also be included in the external preparation of the tidal boundary-condition input files. Therefore, the list of specific proposed modifications is extended to include:

  1. the suppression of the optional conversion of tidal input data to its complex conjugate in module bdytides (including the removal of namelist parameter ln_bdytide_conj);

and

  1. the suppression of support for the alternative two-dimensional boundary-condition input data format and of the associated extraction of the tidal boundary condition along boundary segements from such two-dimensional input data (including the removal of namelist parameter ln_bdytide_2ddta).

The previewer also suggests to clean module bdytides from redundant source code. A review of the source code related to module bdytides suggests that subroutine bdytide_update is redundant (subroutine bdy_dta in source:/NEMO/trunk/src/OCE/BDY/bdydta.F90 includes a section with a call of subroutine bdytide_update, but since the current trunk model version never calls bdy_dta with the optional argument jit, the code in this section seems to be redundant). Therefore, the list of specific proposed modifications is further extended to include:

  1. the removal of both the redundant subroutine bdytide_update of module bdytides and a section of redundant source code in subroutine bdy_dta of module bdydta (lines 230 to 287, which contain a call of subroutine bdytide_update).

Further, the proposed action is extended to include an update of the NEMO manual to reflect the modifications of the model that result from this action.

Previewer's comments

I would prefer that you keep ln_bdytide_2ddta option. That would probably ease the future use of "on the fly" interpolation to provide tidal forcing at boundaries. This said, that looks all good to me.

Tests

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Review

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