<div dir="ltr">Hi Taylor, <div><br></div><div>KPP computes a mixed layer depth that depends on surface forcing, ocean buoyancy profile, and velocity profile. A Richardson number is calculated (equation 21 in Large 1994 Rev. of Geophysics), and the Hbl set to the smallest depth where Richardson number equals some critical value. As you are doing an offline calculation, I am assuming you have no forcing. Also, because you use daily averaged velocities, which are presumably smooth, you don't generate small Ri in the domain. You could try to look at what the boundary layer depth was in the online simulation that generated the velocity fields in the first place, if you just want an estimate. If you care about having a region of enhanced mixing near the surface in the biogeochem model, then you might need to think of a more clever work around. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dhruv</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Taylor Shropshire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tas14j@my.fsu.edu" target="_blank">tas14j@my.fsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am running an offline biogeochemical model using MITgcm for the Gulf of Mexico. Flow fields are from previously computed daily averages and are prescribed daily in the model.</p>
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I have KPP outputting its variables weekly: KPPviscAz, KPPdiffKzT, KPPdiffKzS, KPPGHAT, KPPHBL. </p>
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When I look at the output of KPPHBL (mixed layer depth) I find that it is always 5m at every record at every grid point. Why is this happening in my simulations? </p>
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Thanks for your time, </p>
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<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><b>Taylor Shropshire<br>
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