[MITgcm-support] Heat Budget in tutorial (Global Ocean Simulation at 4 deg)

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

Martin, you are probably aware of this but for support list benefit, JM wrote a very nice summary of surface diagnostic subtleties, which is available here: MITgcm/doc/diags_changes.txt

TFLUX is the correct diagnostic for temperature budget closure:

a) if useRealFreshWaterFlux=F or (nonlinFreeSurf=0 & usingZCoords=T)
 TFLUX = oceQnet  + TRELAX + oceFreez

b) if useRealFreshWaterFlux=T & (nonlinFreeSurf>0 or usingPCoords=T),
 TFLUX = oceQnet  + TRELAX + PmEpR*temp_EvPrRn*Cp + oceFreez

Dimitris Menemenlis

On May 20, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> In order to get these diagnostics, you need to save (in data.diagnostics)
> something like oceQnet (surface heat flux, but without relaxing contribution, as far as I remember), or TFLUX (which contains everything)