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upper level wind anomaly #129

Closed gutmann closed 2 years ago

gutmann commented 2 years ago

Expected Behavior

With iterative winds, vertical motion should smoothly decay to 0 at the top of the model

Current Behavior

Currently with a flat z height below the model top, vertical motion decays to 0 at that height, then everything above it often has a large magnitude.

Possible Solution

investigate wind solver and z coordinate calculation, update iterative winds to always use model top.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

  1. set flat_z_height to -5
  2. set wind = 3
  3. may need to use sleeve coordinate?
  4. run a domain with some topography

Your Environment

gutmann commented 2 years ago

idl_u_w_flat-8

example from an ideal simulation @bertjebertjek tested

gutmann commented 2 years ago

fixed by #130