[MITgcm-devel] KPP bug for initialisation of minKPPhbl

Patrick Heimbach heimbach at MIT.EDU
Sun Oct 31 01:11:47 EST 2004


There's a bug in the initialisation of
minimum KPP boundary layer depth.
minKPPhbl is set in kpp_readparms.F to be
      minKPPhbl     = drF(1)*0.5

but drF(K) is only set afterwards in S/R ini_vertical_grid
Thus, minKPPhbl is always zero, leading to a too slow
establishment of a boundary layer.
I am going to move it to kpp_init.
(It may be somewhat debatable anyways whether a 
drF(1)-dependent minimal depth is at all meaningful.)

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