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Defaut for wind in CAM

Dear all, could any of you tell me what's the defaut setup for wind field in CAM? Also, If I set the wind field and other forcing field as constant, where should I do that? Thanks a lot, Joyce:rolleyes:
 

rneale

Rich Neale
CAM Project Scientist
Staff member
The wind fields are determined by prognostic equations in the model so it doesn't really make to sense to fix them in any way. It could be possible to add a relaxation/drag type of term to push the value back to some fixed value. What were you hoping to do in the model that involved fixed wind fields?
 
I think I got some ideas from your reply:) Also, what's the netCDF files mean in the data directory in CAM? I thought those are the default initial conditions, default forcing fields and the boundary conditions for the CAM run. Am I right?
Thanks a bunch, Joyce:p
 
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