[MITgcm-support] advective and diffusive diagnostics

[Valerie Benesh]

I am currently trying to understand the units of the advective and  
diffusive fluxes in the available diagnostics.  What is the  
difference between mass-weighted transport of a tracer and the  
advective flux of the tracer?  Does the mass transport include  
diffusion? I take it mass-weighting involves the mass of water in the  
grid cell?   How exactly are the units (kg/kg)*(m/s) come by for mass- 
weighted transport?  How are the units (kg/kg)*(m^3/s) achieved for  
fluxes of the tracer?  Are these the fluxes themselves at each cell  
boundary?  Any help understanding these units is appreciated.  Thanks,

Val



***************************************************
Val Bennington
Graduate Student
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
benesh at wisc.edu
***************************************************



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/attachments/20070301/58c63880/attachment.htm>