================================================================ Apr 03, 2010 1) add diagnostics for KPP non-local flux of Temp, Salt and pTracers (respectively: KPPg_TH, KPPg_SLT and KPPgTrXX for tracer number XX) This allows to close the tracer budget when using KPP. 2) Change the diagnostic for KPP non-local term: name: description: KPPghat Nonlocal transport coefficient (s/m^2) (correspond to KPP ghat field, from which the non-local flux of tracer (T,S,pTr) is computed, as the product of ghat , KPPdiffKz and surface flux.) replaced by: KPPghatK ratio of KPP non-local (salt) flux relative to surface-flux (correspond to the product: KPP_ghat * KPPdiffKzS which gives the fraction of the the surface flux of Salt that KPP return as non local flux; also valid for any passive tracer, but could be different for Temp., see comment below) comments (from mitgcm-devel list): I was also tempted to replace the KPPghat diagnostics with something more useful which incorporates the KPPdiffKz: Since it is the product KPPghat*KPPdiffKz which matters, and given that short time variations of both (which have no reason not to be correlated) can be significant, the product of the 2 time-ave is very likely to be quiet far from the time-ave of the product. It has also the advantage of a simpler interpretation: the product is just the fraction of the surface flux which is treated as non local (no unit, instead of this funny s/m^2 for KPPghat). Then I would propose to just pick one KPPdiffKz (for instance, KPPdiffKzS for salinity, since it's also used for Ptracers), and have only 1 diag: "KPPghatK" for KPPghat*KPPdiffKzS (no unit). For temperature (KPPghat*KPPdiffKzT), it's probably not too different from the one computed for salinity (might be in fact a better time-ave value that what we have now, for the reason above). And to get a precise diagnostic of KPP-non-local effect on temperature, there would be this new diagnostic directly from kpp_transport_t.F (which can be used to close a Temp. budget). ================================================================ Jun 21, 2009 Some redundancies and relations for model diagnostics: 1) Qnet = QNETtave = - oceQnet = SIqnet 2) For open-ocean, i.e., when there is no sea ice: Qnet = QNETtave = - oceQnet = SIqnet = EXFqnet = SIqneto = SIatmQnt 3) EXFqnet = EXFlwnet + EXFswnet - EXFhl - EXFhs 4) Qsw = QSWtave = - oceQsw = SIqsw 5) For open-ocean, i.e., when there is no sea ice: Qsw = QSWtave = - oceQsw = SIqsw = EXFswnet 6) EmPmR = EmPmRtave = -oceFWflx = SIempmr ================================================================ Nov 19, 2006 (after tag checkpoint58r_post) I) Some diagnostics have been renamed (essentially, to better match the content): 1) name: description (oceanic set-up): PRESSURE Cell-Center Height replaced by: RCENTER Cell-Center Height 2) name: description (oceanic set-up): TICE heat from melt/freeze of sea-ice, >0 increases theta replaced by: oceFreez heating from freezing of sea-water (allowFreezing=T) 3) name: description (oceanic set-up): TAUX zonal surface wind stress, >0 increases uVel TAUY meridional surf. wind stress, >0 increases vVel replaced by: oceTAUX zonal surface wind stress, >0 increases uVel oceTAUY meridional surf. wind stress, >0 increases vVel 4) name: description (oceanic set-up): SWFLUX net upward SW radiation, >0 increases theta replaced by: oceQsw net Short-Wave radiation (+=down), >0 increases theta 5) name: description (oceanic set-up): DIFx_TH Zonal Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature DIFy_TH Meridional Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature replaced by: DFxE_TH Zonal Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature DFyE_TH Meridional Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature 6) name: description (oceanic set-up): DIFx_SLT Zonal Diffusive Flux of Salinity DIFy_SLT Meridional Diffusive Flux of Salinity replaced by: DFxE_SLT Zonal Diffusive Flux of Salinity DFyE_SLT Meridional Diffusive Flux of Salinity ----------------------------------------------- II) Change description of existing diagnostics: name: old description (oceanic set-up): TFLUX net surface heat flux, >0 increases theta SFLUX net surface salt flux, >0 increases salt name: new description (oceanic set-up): TFLUX total heat flux (match heat-content variations), >0 increases theta SFLUX total salt flux (match salt-content variations), >0 increases salt ----------------------------------------------- III) New diagnostics have been added: name: description (oceanic set-up): atmPload Atmospheric pressure loading sIceLoad sea-ice loading (in Mass of ice+snow / area unit) oceQnet net surface heat flux into the ocean (+=down), >0 increases theta oceFWflx net surface Fresh-Water flux into the ocean (+=down), >0 decreases salinity oceSflux net surface Salt flux into the ocean (+=down), >0 increases salinity surForcT model surface forcing for Temperature, >0 increases theta surForcS model surface forcing for Salinity, >0 increases salinity -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Relation between surForcT,surForcS and others surface forcing diagnostics: [x] = average of model variable "x" over the diagnostic time interval a) if useRealFreshWaterFlux=F or (nonlinFreeSurf=0 & usingZCoords=T) surForcT = oceQnet + TRELAX - oceQsw surForcS = oceSflux + SRELAX - [PmEpR*So] (with So = local Sea-Surface Salinity (SSS) if convertFW2Salt=-1 and So = convertFW2Salt otherwise) oceFWflx = [PmEpR] TFLUX = surForcT + oceQsw + oceFreez SFLUX = surForcS b) if useRealFreshWaterFlux=T & (nonlinFreeSurf>0 or usingPCoords=T), In general: surForcT = oceQnet + TRELAX - oceQsw + [T_dilution_effect]*Cp surForcS = oceSflux + SRELAX + [S_dilution_effect] where T_dilution_effect = PmEpR*( temp_EvPrRn - SST ) and S_dilution_effect = PmEpR*( salt_EvPrRn - SSS ) oceFWflx = [PmEpR] TFLUX = surForcT + oceQsw + oceFreez + [PmEpR*SST]*Cp SFLUX = surForcS + [PmEpR*SSS] And with the default value: salt_EvPrRn=0. & temp_EvPrRn=UNSET_RL (=> no dilution effect on Temp.): surForcT = oceQnet + TRELAX - oceQsw surForcS = oceSflux + SRELAX - [PmEpR*SSS] Notes: 1) here PmEpR is assumed to be the fresh-water mass flux per surface area [units: kg/m^2/s] whereas the model variable EmPmR is still a volume flux per surface area [units: m/s]. 2) with Linear Free surface (nonlinFreeSurf=0), the term corresponding to w_surface*SST,SSS is missing in TFLUX,SFLUX [might be added later ?] to match exactly the Heat and Salt budget evolution. --------------------------------------------------------------------------