xao_ox or x2oacc_ox ？

[Mikasa]

Hello, I noticed that some components of the xao_ox and x2oacc_ox have the same name, such as :

x2oacc_Foxx_taux, x2oacc_Foxx_tauy, x2oacc_Foxx_lat, x2oacc_Foxx_sen, x2oacc_Foxx_swnet

xaoo_Faox_taux, xaoo_Faox_tauy, xaoo_Faox_lat, xaoo_Faox_sen, xaoo_Faox_swdn

The xao_ox and x2oacc_ox are both involved in the atm/ocn flux calculation. I want to know which one of them is passed to the ocn as input forcing to affect the ocn state ? Variables with prefix xaoo or x2oacc ?

 

[fischer]

Hi Mikasa,

The x2oacc variables are passed to the ocean.

 

[Mikasa]

Hi Mikasa,

The x2oacc variables are passed to the ocean.

Hi fischer,

Thank you very much for your reply ! After my study on the code for calculating atm/ocn flux, I found that xao_ox is the key variable storing the calculation results of atm/ocn flux. Together with a2x_ox, i2x_ox and so on, xao_ox will be merged into the x2o_ox, which will be copied to x2oacc_ox later. As a result, the x2oacc_ox collects input from all other components to the ocean. That is to say, xaoo_Faox_taux only gives part of the value of x2oacc_Foxx_taux.

Is my understanding of the work flow right ? I am looking forward to your reply.