[ecco-support] [EXTERNAL] Momentum Budget Terms

[Fenty, Ian G (US 329C)]

Hi Deb,
Good question.  The vorticity budget tutorial (made by Maike Julie, https://github.com/maikejulie/) uses a number of fields that we have not traditionally included as part of the official solution and so they are not on the ECCO drive.

Looking at the vorticity budget tutorial I found the following set of variables:

    PHI_SURF      ETAN          Vm_Advec      Vm_Cori
    AB_gV         Vm_dPHdy      Vm_Ext        TOTVTEND
    VISrI_Vm      VBotDrag      Vm_Diss       AB_gU
    VISrI_Um      Um_dPHdx      Um_Ext        Um_Diss
    TOTUTEND      UBotDrag      Um_Cori       Um_Advec

Of these we only include Um_dPHdx, Vm_dPHdy, ETAN, and PHI_SURF (via PHI_HYD).

We could re-run V4r4 to generate the fields needed to close the momentum budget and add those fields for our future releases.  Can you confirm exactly which fields are needed?  Matt Mazloff (cc’d) may be able to help.

-Ian Fenty


On 7/6/21, 4:10 PM, "ecco-support-bounces at mit.edu<mailto:ecco-support-bounces at mit.edu> on behalf of Deborah Gardner" <ecco-support-bounces at mit.edu<mailto:ecco-support-bounces at mit.edu> on behalf of dagardne at ucsd.edu<mailto:dagardne at ucsd.edu>> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm looking for the Um_[variable] terms and can't locate them in the ECCO drive. I'm looking to diagnose a closed momentum budget which I believe can only be accomplished with specific variables as opposed to computing with velocity variables. Does anyone know where I might be able to find the variables used in the Vorticity Budget Tutorial? Bonus points if it's Release 4


Deb Gardner (she/her/ella)
Best Waffle Topping, 2019 | Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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