[MITgcm-support] KPP and Heat Budget

[Ryan Abernathey]

Hello GCMers,

I am working on calculating the time- and zonally-averaged heat budget  
in my GCM simulations. When using convective adjustment (i.e. KPP is  
OFF), I can close the budget  as the sum of advective fluxes ('VTtave'  
etc.), diffusive fluxes ('Tdiftave'), and external forcing. However,  
when I turn on KPP, I can no longer close the budget, particularly, in  
regions of strong convection. It seems like I am missing some element  
of the convective flux, but this is just a guess.

I thought that all of the KPP-induced fluxes would end up 'Tdiftave',  
so my diagnostics would not have to change depending on the convection  
scheme.

Am I wrong?

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