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3.13.1 Overview
The model domain consists of an approximately 3
km square by 1 km deep box of initially
unstratified, resting fluid. The domain is doubly periodic.
The experiment has 20 levels in the vertical, each of equal thickness
50
m (the horizontal resolution is also 50 m). The fluid is initially unstratified with a
uniform reference potential temperature 20 C. The equation of state
used in this experiment is linear
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which is implemented in the model as a density anomaly equation
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with
and
. Integrated forward in
this configuration the model state variable theta is equivalent to
either in-situ temperature, , or potential temperature, . For
consistency with other examples, in which the equation of state is
non-linear, we use to represent temperature here. This is
the quantity that is carried in the model core equations.
As the fluid in the surface layer is cooled (at a mean rate of 800 Wm), it becomes
convectively unstable and
overturns, at first close to the grid-scale, but, as the flow matures, on larger scales
(figures 3.11 and 3.12), under the influence of
rotation (
s) .
Model parameters are specified in file input/data. The grid dimensions are
prescribed in code/SIZE.h. The forcing (file input/Qsurf.bin) is specified
in a binary data file generated using the Matlab script input/gendata.m.
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