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Coupling Considerations

The routines found in cplmean.f are designed for the purpose of coupling the QTCM1 atmosphere with an ocean model. Fluxes in time are averaged over the coupling interval in cplmean.f.

N.B. the call of cplmean is turned off by default. A defined preprocessor macro CPLMEAN turns it on. Cplmean is design to provide the surface heat and momentum fluxes. Taking cplmean as a guideline it should be easy to compute other average surface fluxes as needed.

QTCM1 reads the sea surface temperature by a call of getSST in the file getbnd.f. This routine as well as the driver may have to be adjusted to meet the coupling needs. Indeed, the driver can be cannibalized to fit calls into another model driver if convenient.



Climate Systems Interaction Group
Sun Aug 25 00:58:46 PDT 2002