[MITgcm-support] diagnosing numerical diffusion (Ryan Abernathey)

[Knut Klingbeil]

Dear Ryan,

we were working on the same issue and developed a Discrete Variance 
Decay (DVD) analysis.
With this we can quantify spurious mixing of tracers and spurious 
dissipation of kinetic energy.

The original method can be found in Burchard and Rennau (2008):
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.10.003

Recently we submitted a manuscript to Ocean Modelling (Klingbeil et al., 
2013) in which we develop a more general DVD analysis. Please do not 
hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Knut

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Knut Klingbeil

Dept. for Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany
http://www.io-warnemuende.de/copps.html

mail : knut.klingbeil at io-warnemuende.de
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