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

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

JM, could we add your little description below to diags_changes.txt
It's already discussed under Note 2 - we just need to update the comment.

(It's my bible.  I read this file every night before I go to sleep. Thx!)

Dimitris Menemenlis

On May 20, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a detail: with Linear FreeSurf, there is a small loss of heat/salt/tracer
> at the surface (d/dt(Eta) inconsistent with fixed surf grid cell thickness):
> a) if linFSConserveTr is set to true (file "data"), then the model 
>  correct for this (see S/R calc_wsurf_tr.F).
> b) if linFSConserveTr=False (=the default), need to account for this term
> in the budget, which can be obtain from the 1rst level of WTHMASS / WSLTMASS 
> diagnostics (diagnostics ADVr_TH / ADVr_SLT is not the right one for 
> this purpose, it's just zero at k=1).
> 
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel