3.13 Surface Driven Convection

Figure 3.10: Schematic of simulation domain for the surface driven convection experiment. The domain is doubly periodic with an initially uniform temperature of 20 .

This experiment, figure 3.10, showcasing MITgcm's non-hydrostatic capability, was designed to explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of convection plumes as they might exist during a period of oceanic deep convection. It is

• non-hydrostatic
• doubly-periodic with cubic geometry
• has 50 m resolution
• Cartesian
• is on an -plane
• with a linear equation of state

• 3.13.1 Overview
• 3.13.2 Equations solved
• 3.13.3 Discrete numerical configuration
• 3.13.4 Numerical stability criteria and other considerations
• 3.13.5 Experiment configuration
  • 3.13.5.1 File code/CPP_EEOPTIONS.h
  • 3.13.5.2 File code/CPP_OPTIONS.h
  • 3.13.5.3 File code/SIZE.h
  • 3.13.5.4 File input/data
  • 3.13.5.5 File input/data.pkg
  • 3.13.5.6 File input/eedata
  • 3.13.5.7 File input/Qsurf.bin
  
  
• 3.13.6 Running the example
  • 3.13.6.1 Code download
  • 3.13.6.2 Experiment Location
  • 3.13.6.3 Running the Experiment

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