[MITgcm-support] upper ocean temperature drift

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

David, for same set-up but with different surface boundary conditions,  
a background vertical diffusivity of ~15e-6 m^2/s^2 results in a more  
realistic Equatorial thermocline structure (Table 3 and Figure 13 in http://ecco2.org/manuscripts/2005/green.pdf) 
.  D.

On Mar 16, 2009, at 8:04 AM, David Wang wrote:

> Now I really have no idea how to proceed with this. Should I run a  
> few more hundred years of spin-up (which I hesitate to do due to  
> computational cost)? Is background vertical diffusivity too small  
> (5.e-6 m^2/s)? Does asynchronous timestepping interact with kpp/ 
> gmredi? etc, etc...

Dimitris Menemenlis <menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov>
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