[MITgcm-support] KPP diffusivities

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

> at least at first sight, 
> those peaks did not seem to be correlated with bottom velocities (which are 
> also very very small, expecially before the wind event)

Not bottom velocity, but vertical shear divided by stratification the 
quantity that matters.

> Martin, maybe the KPP scheme can't be applied to such a kind of configuration 
> (I hope it can, also because I think that vertical variability in turbulence 
> parameters can be very useful to my studies...).

I asked question to Bill Large once ... he said KPP was designed to work 
independent of vertical discretization.  But I don't think that he had 
the regime that you are working in in mind.

D.

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