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<div dir="auto">Hello helpful MITgcm community,<br>
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I’m using the DDrake coupled configuration with a cube-sphere (C24) grid with 15 vertical levels (more details in Ferreira et al. 2010, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI3197.1" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI3197.1</a>), and I am trying
to close the vertical heat balance in the model ocean.<br>
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I have computed vertical profiles of the advective vertical heat flux (diagnostic ADVr_TH) and the total diffusive vertical heat flux (diagnostics DFrE_TH and DFrI_TH). These advective and diffusive fluxes almost exactly balance throughout the water column
(see attached figure), consistent with the traditional ‘upwelling-diffusion’ vertical balance of Munk ’66 and others (I’ve plotted it such that a positive flux is downwards i.e. a warming effect).<br>
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However, there is a strong departure from this balance in the top ~130 m of the ocean, indicating strong net upward cooling. Apparently penetrating shortwave radiation in the model could balance this cooling, but I am not sure how to properly confirm this.
Are there existing model diagnostics to plot the shortwave penetration? Or could I estimate it from other outputs? <br>
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Or is there something else that could provide a warming effect near the ocean surface? Or should I expect this balance to even hold at all?<br>
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Thanks and all the best,<br>
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Peter</div>
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<div>Peter Shatwell</div>
<div>PhD student at MPECDT</div>
<div>Space and Atmospheric Physics</div>
<div>Imperial College London</div>
<div>Huxley 714</div>
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