Ocean Modeling Discussion

Hi All, I'm doing some experiments with Smagorinsky viscosity/diffusion applied biharmonically along geopotential surfaces to explore its impacts on numerical mixing. In hmixing.F, I see that Bsmag is controlled by PecletCoef, which is equal to 1/12. Where does the 1/12 come from? It's unclear to me ...

A little late, but I believe you're correct. Parker MacCready posted a thread about this about a decade ago, it gets at this issue as well. Took me too long to figure out myself until I discovered that thread, posting this to help aggregate. I figured out the problem with my salt_rate test. salt ...

Is it possible to calculate the vertical tracer diffusion coefficients "AKt" or "AKs" offline with model output? I'm using the GLS k-epsilon vertical mixing scheme for context and would appreciate if there's a way to compute them using the model equations. I'd like to construct an offline ...