[MITgcm-support] Surface Driven Convection tutorial

[Stroman, Ashley]

Ahh ok. Well, I'm trying to do a plume simulation in the MITgcm. I'm sort of combining that experiment with the gravity plume experiment. So I might not need to do that edge smoothing then right? 

-Ashley
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:04 PM, "Deremble, Bruno" <bderemble at fsu.edu> wrote:

> 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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> Hello.
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> 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.
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