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<div>Hi, all users,</div><div>I am trying to do some diagnostics analysis of heat transport and vertical redistribution in the Indonesian Seas using MITgcm. I have output ADVx/y/r_TH, DFr/x/yE_TH and DFrI_TH using "data.diagnostics". I found the unit of these variables is "degC.m^3/s", and my understanding is that the advection term of heat flux (i.e. ADVx/y/r_TH) is the product of potential temperature and volume transport. However, after I checked the results, I found the magnitude of heat transport is about one to two orders larger than observed data, although the simulated temperature and velocity compares well with observed data. Thus <span style="line-height: 1.7;">I believe that my understanding of the calculation of heat flux advection term has something wrong. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.7;">Could anyone tell me how the model computes the advection and diffusion term of heat flux?</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.7;">Thanks very much.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.7;"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.7;">Best regards, </span></div>
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<div><span>Yi Liu</span></div><div id="ntes-pcmail-signature" style="font-family:'新宋体'">
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