[MITgcm-support] Diagnosing OBCS heat contribution

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

Not sure if this is the "smartest" way, but one way would be to save following diagnostics and
then grab what you need at your boundaries.

   107 |ADVx_TH | 15 |   108 |UU      MR|degC.m^3/s      |Zonal      Advective Flux of Pot.Temperature
   108 |ADVy_TH | 15 |   107 |VV      MR|degC.m^3/s      |Meridional Advective Flux of Pot.Temperature
   110 |DFxE_TH | 15 |   111 |UU      MR|degC.m^3/s      |Zonal      Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature
   111 |DFyE_TH | 15 |   110 |VV      MR|degC.m^3/s      |Meridional Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature

Dimitris Menemenlis

On Nov 14, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Chris Horvat wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has tackled the problem of computing or diagnosing the contribution that open boundaries have to a run's temperature budget. Since they override the temperature, there's some artificial heat flux caused by the OBCS. 
> 
> At present I've been diagnosing it by computing the difference between the surface heat flux and the implied heat flux by changes in the total temperature of the model, but this is cludgy and post-model-run. Are there any smarter ways to do this?
> 
> Chris
> 
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