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change CMOR names, fixes mom-ocean#709
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bigthetao refers the the uppercase greek letter theta used for
conservative temperature. Salinity so uses the roman alphabet
and a bigso is ambiguous as many papers use S for salinity hence
absso seems like the most unambiguous.
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Raphael Dussin authored and marshallward committed Sep 30, 2024
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/core/MOM.F90
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Expand Up @@ -2706,7 +2706,7 @@ subroutine initialize_MOM(Time, Time_init, param_file, dirs, CS, &
CS%tv%T => CS%T ; CS%tv%S => CS%S
if (CS%tv%T_is_conT) then
vd_T = var_desc(name="contemp", units="Celsius", longname="Conservative Temperature", &
cmor_field_name="thetao", cmor_longname="Sea Water Potential Temperature", &
cmor_field_name="bigthetao", cmor_longname="Sea Water Conservative Temperature", &
conversion=US%Q_to_J_kg*CS%tv%C_p)
else
vd_T = var_desc(name="temp", units="degC", longname="Potential Temperature", &
Expand All @@ -2715,7 +2715,7 @@ subroutine initialize_MOM(Time, Time_init, param_file, dirs, CS, &
endif
if (CS%tv%S_is_absS) then
vd_S = var_desc(name="abssalt", units="g kg-1", longname="Absolute Salinity", &
cmor_field_name="so", cmor_longname="Sea Water Salinity", &
cmor_field_name="absso", cmor_longname="Sea Water Absolute Salinity", &
conversion=0.001*US%S_to_ppt)
else
vd_S = var_desc(name="salt", units="psu", longname="Salinity", &
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