[MITgcm-support] Convtave file

[Ping Zhai]

Hi MITgcmers,
I have questions about the output file: Convtave**.data. The value in 
this file  ranges from 0 to 1. Does anyone know the meaning of these 
values? Is it the measurement of static instability?  0 means no 
instability, and 1 means strong instability and convection? If I want to 
use the offline and ptracers packages, and set 
"implicitDiffusion=.TRUE.,  implicitViscosity=.TRUE., ivdc_kappa=100.," 
in data, does that mean the vertical diffusivity is 100 when Convtave is 
nonzero?
Best,
Ping

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Ping Zhai
PhD Candidate
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Physical Oceanography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139