[MITgcm-devel] Bug in KPP

Jean-Michel Campin jmc at ocean.mit.edu
Tue Jun 23 17:37:20 EDT 2009


Hi,

> Maybe the condition for computing
> the stability criterion should be modified to account for lateral fluxes
> in the model's surface level in addition to surface fluxes proper?

I understand a little bit David's point, and a little bit Dimitris point,
But may be this is a more fundamental limitation of a vertical mixing
scheme which does not have any prognostic variable, and then 
need to rely on, in this case, surface forcing.
I would be curious to see Mellor Yamada 2.5 ? or Gaspard et al ?

Jean-Michel



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