global ocean using the cubed-sphere grid 32x32x32 with 15 levels

Specific option:

• Use Non-Linear Free surface formulation with z* coordinate with real fresh-water flux.
• Oceanic set-up on the cubed-sphere grid using the vector-invariant formulation.

Forcing : use Monthly mean climatological forcing (except P-E-R, annual mean). same data set as global-ocean lat-long experiments but interpolated

on CS-32 grid.

Comments:

• bathymetry : designed to be coupled to Atmospheric model, therefore includes most of the semi-enclosed sea (Mediterranean, Black-Sea, Red-Sea, Hudson Bay ...) bathy_cs32.bin: initial bathymetry h < 0 is meant to stay wet-point whatever delZ(1) is ; Consequently the global ocean area is not affected by the vertical resolution. bathy_Hmin50.bin: bathymetry file used in the current set-up generated from bathy_cs32.bin using matlab script mk_bathy4gcm.m mk_bathy4gcm.m matlab script that deepen all shallow point up to 50m.
• global integral of E-P-R and annual mean net Q flux are zero.
• package thSIce and bulk_forc are included but not used in the standard set-up.

• additional forcing fields and parameter files are provided (in input.thsice) in order to illustrate the use of thSIce pkg. the output of a short run (20.iter) is given in results/output_thsice.txt

October 1rst, 2005:

• input.viscA4/data has been added to test biharmonic viscosity on CS-grid with side-drag. However, this set of parameters has only be used for short tests and is not recommended to begin with.