[MITgcm-support] Online PV Diagnostics

[Ryan Abernathey]

Dear MITgcm People,

I am wondering if a package has been written to compute PV diagnostics  
*online*. I am setting up an eddy-resolving model, and I would like to  
compute eddy PV fluxes.

I am familiar with Guillaume's excellent MATLAB Potential Vorticity  
toolbox.  But using this toolbox would require dumping S, T and  
vorticity at every timestep. I would like to avoid this, since it  
would take a lot of disk space and would probably be very slow.

So is there anything out there to compute PV online, as a diagnostic?

Many Thanks,

__________________
Ryan Abernathey
rpa at mit.edu
MIT Ph.D. Student
Program in Oceans Atmospheres & Climate
http://web.mit.edu/rpa/