Update atmosphere model description in simulation #695
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Updated comments for clarity and added links to SpeedyWeather.
| # The climate simulation is initialized by temperature, salinity, sea ice concentration, and sea ice thickness | ||
| # from the ECCO state estimate. |
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This reads like that ocean and sea ice are initialized but not the atmosphere. But the atmosphere does seem to have a non-trivial initial condition. Talk about that?
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right, the atmosphere is initialized with the default speedyweather options:
InitialConditions{ZonalWind, PressureOnOrography, JablonowskiTemperature, ConstantRelativeHumidity}There was a problem hiding this comment.
they can be inspected with atmos.model.initial_conditions
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we could put a link to read about the default speedy ICs
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The atmosphere is initialized with the Jablonowski and Williamson (2006) initial conditions, which consist of a zonal wind centered at mid-latitudes and higher altitudes and a temperature profile that is baroclinically unstable. The surface pressure is adjusted by orography for approximately globally constant mean-sea level pressure. The initial specific humidity is calculated from temperature for a constant relative humidity everywhere.
enough?
Just sprucing up the coupled climate simulation example a little bit.