[MITgcm-support] meridional overturning in density coordinates

[Christopher L. P. Wolfe]

Hi Christoph,

There's a package that will do this online. Take a look at the "layers" package.

Christopher

On May 15, 2012, at 3:54 AM, Christoph Voelker wrote:

> Dear MITgcm'ers,
> 
> when analyzing meridional overturning, especially in the Southern Ocean,
> it is often useful to have a look at the meridional overturning
> streamfunction in (potential) density and latitude coordinates (D"o"os
> and Webb 1994), as defined as (pseudo-tex-code)
> 
>  \Psi(y,\sigma) = \oint \int_{-H}^(z(x,y,\sigma)} v dz' dx
> 
> I guess other people have wanted to have a look at this type of
> streamfunction before. So is there already a matlab (or other computing
> language) script around to calculate it, given the density and
> meridional velocity fields?
> 
> Cheers, Christoph
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Voelker, Research Scientist,
> Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
> Bremerhaven, Germany
> 
> 
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