Opened 5 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#2170 closed Task (fixed)
VALID-02_GeorgeN-evalOSMOSIS
| Reported by: | acc | Owned by: | agn |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 2019 WP |
| Component: | TOP | Version: | trunk |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
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Description (last modified by smasson)
Summary
| Action | ${ACTION_NAME} Subject |
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| PI(S) | George Nurser |
| Digest | The OSMOSIS surface boundary layer scheme introduced in 2017 was tested in fully global configurations in 2018 and some issues uncovered in some circumstances (for example in places where the mixed layer extends to the seabed). Improvements to the parameterisation have been implemented and will be retested in 2019. |
| Dependencies | |
| Branch | NEMO/branches/2019/dev_r11078_OSMOSIS_IMMERSE_Nurser |
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| Wiki | wiki:2019WP/VALID-02_GeorgeN-evalOSMOSIS |
Abstract
The OSMOSIS OBL code work well in summer conditions, but gives too-deep mixed-layers in winter. It is also written assuming a linear equation of state, and has not yet been applied to passive tracers.
Under-ice behaviour has not been checked. All these issues need to be addressed.
Description
he OSMOSIS OBL code has shown promise in giving more realistic, deeper, mixed layers (MLs) in the Southern Ocean in the southern summer. However there are various issues that must be settled before it can be used as an OBL code for global integrations.
- ML are too deep in winter, especially over the ACC in southern winter. This problem is being addressed by a) taking account of the effect of the Coriolis force on the turbulence when the eddy-turnover scale approaches the inertial timescale and b) taking account of the lesser effectiveness of Langmuir turbulence in driving mixing when the ML depth becomes very deep relative to the depth to which the Stokes drift penetrates.
- Non-local fluxes of passive tracers need to be defined.
- The non-linearity of the equation of state needs to be better taken account of.
- The behaviour of the model under ice requires detailed examination.
- The code has been written for simplicity and ease of understanding rather than performance, and needs to be optimized.
Implementation
Changes will mostly be restricted to the zdfosm.F90 module.
Namelists will need also to be modified.
New variables are not fully known yet.
Reference manual and web pages updates
Chapter will be written for reference manual and text for the user guide
Once the PI has completed this section, he should send a mail to the previewer(s) asking them to preview the work within two weeks.
Commit History (2)
| Changeset | Author | Time | ChangeLog |
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| 12934 | smueller | 2020-05-15T11:05:29+02:00 | Correction of the synchronization with /NEMO/trunk@12925 (ticket #2170) |
| 12928 | smueller | 2020-05-14T21:46:00+02:00 | Synchronizing with /NEMO/trunk@12925 (ticket #2170) |
Change History (8)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by nemo
- Priority changed from low to high
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by agn
- Description modified (diff)
- wp_comment set to At 23 May 2019: The OSMOSIS code has been implemented in the v4.0 release of NEMO (presently based on r10833, April 3rd 2019). Work has begun on a range of approaches to reduce the too-deep winter mixed layers. a. Reduction in the effectiveness of the Langmuir mixing in cases where the ratio of the Stokes penetration depth to the boundary layer depth is small. and b. Reduction in effectiveness of shear-turbulent, Langmuir and convective deepening when the respective eddy turnover timescales (hbl/u* etc.) approach the inertial timescale 1/f.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by smasson
- Description modified (diff)
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by smasson
- Description modified (diff)
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by smasson
- Description modified (diff)
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by smueller
In 12928:
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by smueller
In 12934:
comment:8 Changed 3 years ago by acc
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Osmosis improvements arising from this work were merged onto the trunk at changeset:14045 . Some further code restructuring is planned for the 2021WP but this ticket can be closed.
23 May. Added description of work on this ticket and progress as of 23 May 2019
Branch will be placed in public NEMo repository in early June
--George Nurser