[MITgcm-support] Re: viscosity questions

Baylor Fox-Kemper baylor at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 16 14:16:04 EST 2006


Hi Martin,

> I see noise in T/S and density, not in U/V (so I though I was good  
> with the viscosities).
I'm betting it's KPP.

> vectorinvariantmomentum (does that make a big difference? I  
> couldn't find a positive impact on the noise)
It might, but not if you have dx=dy=constant.  I thought that in that  
case they converge to the same thing.  In any case, it should affect  
primarily momentum not T&S...

    -Baylor



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