[MITgcm-support] vertical flux of tracer

kaveh Purkiani kavehpurkiani at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 6 09:30:31 EST 2015


Thanks Ryan.
That helped.

kaveh.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Ryan Abernathey <ryan.abernathey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The manual is quite good on this topic:
> http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/online_documents/node73.html
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, kaveh Purkiani <
> kavehpurkiani at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wonder how the vertical and horizontal fluxes of any tracers are
>> handled in MITgcm.
>>
>> The u,v and w velocities are located at cell interfaces while, the
>> tracers are at cell centre. How does this half a cell backward or forward
>> shifting is applied to either tracers or velocities to calculate the fluxes
>> correctly ?
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Kaveh.
>>
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