Tidal mixing
The tidally driven mixing parameterization implemented in CESM1 POP2 is described in Jayne (2009). See the POP Reference Manual for details.
| &tidal_nml | CESM1 dipole-grid default | CESM1 tripole-grid default | Valid values |
Tidal mixing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ltidal_mixing | .true. | .false. | .true.,.false. | if .true., activate the tidally driven mixing parameterization |
| local_mixing_fraction | 0.33 | 0.33 | fraction of energy available for mixing local to the generation region | |
| mixing_efficiency | 0.2 | 0.2 | mixing efficiency | |
| vertical_decay_scale | 500.0e02 | 500.0e02 | vertical decay scale for turbulence (cm) | |
| tidal_mix_max | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||
| tidal_energy_file | auto-filled by CESM1 POP2 scripts | auto-filled by CESM1 POP2 scripts | 'unknown_tidal_energy_file'; string ≤ 256 characters | input file for reading tidal energy flux |
| tidal_energy_file_fmt | 'bin' | 'bin' | 'bin', 'nc' | input file format (binary or netCDF) |
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