[ecco-support] surface pressure in LLC4320

Matthew Mazloff mmazloff at ucsd.edu
Tue Oct 20 12:53:11 EDT 2020


Hello 

We love the LLC4320 - thank you!

We are analyzing the SO dynamics in it, and we need to know surface pressure. However ETAN appears to be the water column height under the sea ice. Is this correct - do we need to add sea ice loading?

If so would it be 
            sIceLoad  = HEFF * SEAICE_rhoIce + HSNOW * SEAICE_rhoSnow
And then 
	phiSurf = ( etan + sIceLoad*recip_rhoConst ) *gravity

Much appreciated!
Matt




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