Wave+Current interaction

[tnmiles]

Are wave enhanced currents calculated in ROMS by simply forcing with waves, or are there more complicated steps to turn this feature on?

I have a realistic model setup and would like to add in wave forcing for sediment resuspension and transport.

[jcwarner]

not quite clear what you are asking, but you can think of the waves as working in 3 different regions:

1) surface flux of tke: by activating
** CHARNOK use if Charnok surface roughness from wind stress **
** CRAIG_BANNER use if Craig and Banner wave breaking surface flux **
or
** ZOS_HSIG use if surface roughness from wave amplitude **
** TKE_WAVEDISS use if wave breaking surface flux from wave amplitude **

2) wave driven currents in the water column: by activating
** WEC_MELLOR activate radiation stress terms from Mellor 08. **
** WEC_VF activate wave-current stresses from Uchiyama et al. **
(VF only in COAWST, not Rutgers)

3) wave enhanced bottom roughness: by activating
** MB_BBL use if Meinte Blaas BBL closure **
** MB_CALC_ZNOT use if computing bottom roughness internally **
or
** SG_BBL use if Styles and Glenn (2000) BBL closure **
** SG_CALC_ZNOT use if computing bottom roughness internally **
or
** SSW_BBL use if Sherwood et al. BBL closure **
** SSW_CALC_ZNOT use if computing bottom roughness internally **
and associated other options.

-john

[tnmiles]

All of those things were essentially what I was getting at. That actually answers my question pretty explicitly, thanks John!