[MITgcm-support] GM-Redi question

[Naughten, Kaitlin A.]

Hello everyone,


I am a bit confused about the GM-Redi scheme, and how to turn on the "GM" part (bolus or skew fluxes) versus just the "Redi" part (tracer diffusion along isentropes). An old message from Martin (http://mailman.mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-support/2016-March/010355.html) said that he only used the Redi part, but I'm not sure what options control this.


I switched on all the GM-Redi diagnostics in my configuration and discovered that many variables are zero everywhere (GM_PsiX, GM_PsiY, GM_ubT, GM_vbT, GM_hTrsl, GM_baseS, GM_rLamb, plus two components of the Redi tensor which I think are supposed to be zero: GM_Kuz and GM_Kvz). Does this mean that I only have the Redi part switched on? And if so, why is the GM part not on?


Here are the active lines of my data.gmredi:


 &GM_PARM01
 GM_background_K=10.,
 GM_taper_scheme='ldd97',
 GM_Kmin_horiz=50.,
 GM_Visbeck_alpha=0.07,
 GM_Visbeck_length=50.E3,
 GM_Visbeck_depth=2000.,
 GM_Visbeck_maxVal_K=300.,


And here are the active lines of my GM_REDI_OPTIONS.h:


#ifndef GMREDI_OPTIONS_H

#define GMREDI_OPTIONS_H
#include "PACKAGES_CONFIG.h"
#include "CPP_OPTIONS.h"
#ifdef ALLOW_GMREDI
#define GM_VISBECK_VARIABLE_K
#undef OLD_VISBECK_CALC
#undef GM_K3D
#undef GM_K3D_PASSIVE
#define GM_NON_UNITY_DIAGONAL
#define GM_EXTRA_DIAGONAL
#define GM_BOLUS_ADVEC
#undef GM_BOLUS_BVP
#endif /* ALLOW_GMREDI */
#endif /* GMREDI_OPTIONS_H */

This is probably a stupid question but hopefully that means it has a quick and easy answer!

Many thanks,
Kaitlin


Dr Kaitlin Naughten
British Antarctic Survey


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