[MITgcm-support] Interior ocean heating

[Christopher L. Wolfe]

Dear Modelers,

Is there any way to add an internal heat source to the MITgcm in ocean 
mode? What I really want to do is flux heat through the ocean floor, 
but adding it as a source at the lowest grid point would accomplish the 
same thing. The only way I can see to do this given what I've been able 
to figure out so far is to fake it by relaxing the model toward a 
hydrography which is identical to the model mean state except that it's 
warmer in the bottom layer. However, I think this would tend to 
suppress the formation of transient eddies, which I don't really want 
to do.

Thanks in advance,
Christopher

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Dr. Christopher L. Wolfe             		 858-534-4560
Physical Oceanography Research Division    OAR 357
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD  clwolfe at ucsd.edu
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