[MITgcm-devel] Bug in KPP

[David Ferreira]

Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> My hunch is that problem is due to surface level being too thick.  If 
> you have time and motivation to carry out one or two more channel 
> experiments, I would suggest the following:
Are you pulling my legs ?
You acknowledge that the problem is due to the HBL not being a function 
of Ri_c (under stable
conditions), but you still think it has to do with the vertical 
resolution, right ?
Seriously, I don't see where you are going. How the vertical resolution 
would remove the
static instability here ?
david

> 1) change the vertical grid spacing so that top level is 1-m thick.
>
> 2) try resurrecting option KPP_ESTIMATE_UREF in KPP_OPTIONS.h
> (not sure if it still works as it hasn't been exercised in some 10 
> years though ... )






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