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

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Dimitris,

Yes, please go ahead. 
There is just one more undocumented/hidden case (nonlinFreeSurf=0 & select_rStar=-1) 
which is not covered.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:11:26AM -0700, Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248) wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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