MOM5 Manual
MOM5_manual
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- Introducing the Modular Ocean Model
- I Formulation of the ocean equations
- II Numerical formulations
- B and C grid discretizations
- Quasi-Eulerian algorithms for hydrostatic models
- Pressure and geopotential at tracer points
- Initialization issues
- Vertical dimensions of grid cells
- Summary of vertical grid cell increments
- Surface height and bottom pressure diagnosed
- Vertically integrated volume/mass budgets
- Compatibility between tracer and mass
- Diagnosing the dia-surface velocity component
- Vertically integrated horizontal momentum
- Time stepping schemes
- Split between fast and slow motions
- Time stepping the model equations as in MOM4.0
- Introduction to time stepping in MOM
- Basics of staggered time stepping in Boussinesq MOM
- Predictor-corrector for the barotropic system
- The Griffies (2004) scheme
- Algorithms motivated from predictor-corrector
- Algorithms enforcing compatibility
- Discrete space-time Coriolis force
- Time-implicit treatment of vertical mixing and bottom drag
- Mechanical energy conversions and advective mass transport
- Basic considerations
- Energetic conversions in the continuum
- How we make use of energetic conversions
- Thickness weighted volume and mass budgets
- Thickness and mass per area for the momentum
- B-grid Boussinesq pressure work conversions
- C-grid Boussinesq pressure work conversions
- B-grid non-Boussinesq pressure work conversions
- C-grid non-Boussinesq pressure work conversions
- Effective Coriolis force and mechanical energy
- B-grid kinetic energy advection
- C-grid kinetic energy advection
- Advection velocity and horizontal remapping for the B-grid
- Open boundary conditions for the B-grid
- III Subgrid scale parameterizations for vertical processes
- IV Subgrid scale parameterizations for lateral processes
- V Ad hoc subgrid scale parameterizations
- VI Diagnostic capabilities
- Methods for diagnosing mass transport
- Kinetic energy diagnostics
- Effective dianeutral diffusivity
- Spurious dissipation from numerical advection
- Dianeutral transport and associated budgets
- Introduction to the diagnostic methods
- Density layer mass budgets and watermass formation
- Pieces required to locally compute dianeutral transport
- The dianeutral transport
- Layer calculation of the watermass transformation G()
- Kinematic method to compute the material time derivative
- Process method to compute the material time derivative
- Finite volume estimate of the advective-form material time derivative
- Comments on the MOM diagnostic calculation
- Kinematic method diagnosed in MOM
- Process method diagnosed in MOM
- Budget for locally referenced potential density
- Diagnosing mass budgets for density layers
- Inferring transformation from surface buoyancy fluxes
- Specifying the density classes for layer diagnostics
- Known limitations
- Mixed layer depth diagnostics
- Subduction diagnostics
- Diagnosing the contributions to sea level evolution
- Mass conservation for seawater and tracers
- Kinematic equations for sea level evolution
- The non-Boussinesq steric effect
- Evolution of global mean sea level
- Vertical diffusion and global mean sea level
- Neutral diffusion and global mean sea level
- Parameterized quasi-Stokes transport and global mean sea level
- MOM sea level diagnostics: Version I
- MOM sea level diagnostics: Version II
- Gyre and overturning contributions to tracer transport
- Balancing the hydrological cycle in ocean-ice models
- Diagnosing the momentum budget
- Bibliography