[MITgcm-support] kpp

[Dmitri Leonov]

> Dmitri, I assume you mean gradient (shear instability) as opposed to bulk 
> (boundary layer depth) Richardson number in KPP formulation.
That's correct

Thanks very much for the information.
Dmitri


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:


> You can turn off KPP PBL mixing by setting
> #undef KPP_GHAT"
> in KPP_OPTIONS.h prior to compiling the code and
> difmcon = 0
> difscon = 0
> diftcon = 0
> in the runtime data.kpp file.
>
> You can turn off background vertical mixing by setting
> viscAr  = 0
> diffKrT = 0
> diffKrS = 0
>
> Double diffusive KPP mixing is not implemented in MITgcm.
>
> -- 
> Dimitris Menemenlis <menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov>
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