[MITgcm-support] Surface Driven Convection tutorial

[Deremble, Bruno]

I think it is just a trick to smooth the edge of the convective region (the disk)
(probably for numerical stability reasons)

you can try with or without it to see the difference

bruno

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:53:58 +0000
From: "Stroman, Ashley" <acs08g at my.fsu.edu>
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Hello.

I am looking at the Surface Driven Convection tutorial as a guidance tool, and I was wondering why for the Surface Heat flux the grid is refined (by 3 x 3) to assign a mean heat flux? I was also wondering why the buoyancy value is divided by 9. Thanks.

Best,
Ashley Stroman



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