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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Dear all,</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I am trying to do the momentum budget for a model that is run in the flux form. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I have been saving and using the outputs available in the flux form, for example for the zonal momentum:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">ADVx_Um, ADVy_Um, ADVrE_Um, VISCx_Um, VISCy_Um, VISrE_Um, VISrI_Um (all divided by the respective RAW * DRF * hFacW). </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I also have the TOTUTEND / timestep to compare with the sum of those terms, plus the Coriolis term which I calculated. </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">My question is how to do the budget in the flux form, not using the vector invariant form outputs (I have been finding help for that but not much related to the flux form). </p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I am not sure it can be done the same way. If you run the model in the flux form can you use the vector invariant outputs to check the momentum budget? If anyone ever used the flux form outputs, could you give me any advice on what am I missing or what else should I include in the sum?</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Thanks in advance.</p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Ana Berger.</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Ana Paula Berger - Oceanographer, </font></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PhD Candidate.</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">+61 0474 833 811</span></div><span dir="ltr" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><div style="text-align:left"><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px"><br></p></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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