[MITgcm-support] Latent/sensible heat fluxes in MITgcm

[Chris Horvat]

Dear Martin,

Thanks! Should have sent this to the support thread, sure.

Chris



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> let me remind you of MITgcm-support at mitgcm.org for questions like this.
>
> EXFhl/hs are the latent and sensible heat flux computed from prescribed
> atmospheric fields (air temperature and humidity, wind) and simulated
> oceanic fields (mainly SST, but also SSS). So they are exactly what you are
> looking for.
>
> But I remember that you are interested in sea ice, and here the situation
> is slightly different, because after EXF computes the above fluxes in
> exf_bulkformula.F (variables hl, hs) assuming no sea-ice. In
> seaice_solve4temp the fluxes are recomputed over sea-ice (F_sens, F_lh) and
> these are, unfortunately, not (as far as I can see) part of the diagnostics
> scheme, yet. It should be easy to diagnose them using the pkg/diagnostics
> machinery.
>
> Martin
>
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Chris Horvat wrote:
>
> > Dear Martin,
> >
> > I'm trying to diagnose the latent and sensible heat fluxes in the
> MITgcm, with the EXF package, and am having some trouble.
> >
> > EXFhs and EXFhl are (as I understand it) just reporting the fluxes I'm
> prescribing through data.EXF (which are none). Am I inadvertently setting
> the heat fluxes to the system by using exf? Is there a way of diagnosing
> the heat fluxes?
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
>
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