[MITgcm-support] advection of passive tracers, a never-endingstory

[Chris Hill]

I can't think of anything in the internal dynamics. There are surface
forcing related issues, e.g. datasets, relaxation time scales, fw fluxes
which may use a reference salinity to dilute/concentrate etc...

Chris

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> Dimitris Menemenlis
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> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] advection of passive tracers, a 
> never-endingstory
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> 
> >> Is there any reason why ptracers should be advected, mixed 
> >> differently, as salinity with sBeta=0?
> 
> Martin, I am not sure this is relevant or useful:
> 
> In MITgcm_contrib/ocean_inversion_project there is an 
> experiment that checks that salinity and ptracers results are 
> exactly the same.  It's the first one described in the README 
> file.  In my experience the PTRACER*.data files are always 
> bit-identical to corresponding S.*.data file.  But I have 
> never tried experiment with linear equation of state and sBeta=0. 
> 
> D.
> 
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