[MITgcm-devel] KPP diagnostics

[Patrick Heimbach]

Ditto.
-p.

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> David, I agree.
> KPPmld is redundant and it can be removed.
> KPPhbl needs to stay.
> D.
>
> Dimitris Menemenlis <menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov>
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> On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:23 PM, David Ferreira wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Quick question: is there someone against removing the
>> mixed-layer depth diagnostics in KPP (KPPmld) ?
>>
>> It redundant since there is already a mixed-layer depth diagnostics
>> in calc_oce_mxlayer.F (MXLDEPTH). Just in case, you care
>> why keeping MXLDEPTH:
>> - it is more flexible because is available even with KPP turned off
>> - it's more flexible because the mixed-layer criteria is not hard- 
>> coded
>> but a runtime parameter.
>> - it's smarter (avoid multiple recomputations of density)
>> - by default, it's doing the same as KPPmld
>>
>> Quid ?
>> david
>
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