[MITgcm-support] KPP and Heat Budget

Thu Apr 15 12:35:02 EDT 2010

Ryan, you are missing the non-local transport.
Look for diagnostic KPPghatK.

D.

On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Ryan Abernathey wrote:

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