[MITgcm-support] I love KPP

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

>> I love KPP

Join the club!

Could you turn on KPPwriteState and kpp_dumpFreq in the data.kpp file
and then plot some profiles of the various KPP diagnostics.

I am going to take a wild guess here.  The following two lines

kpp_readparms.F:      minKPPhbl     = drF(1)*0.5
kpp_routines.F:         hbl(i) = max(hbl(i),minKPPhbl)

set a minimum mixed layer depth.  This in turn needs to be
matched to diffusivity/viscosity in the level below.

Maybe you can try minKPPhbl=0 in the data.kpp file.
Can't remember why the minKPPhbl is there in the first
place, so not sure if this would work.

Cheers, D.

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