15.12. Baroclinic Vortex

Free evolution of a baroclinic vortex (South West drift) that retains part of its initial axisymmetric shape as advective effects compensate for weak-amplitude Rossby-wave dispersion in its wake. 1-way and 2-way nesting were tested with this configuration.

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Penven, P., Debreu, L., Marchesiello, P., McWilliams, J.C., 2006. Application of the ROMS embedding procedure for the central California upwelling system. Ocean Model. 12, 157–187.

Debreu L., P. Marchesiello, P. Penven and G. Cambon, 2012: Two-way nesting in split-explicit ocean models: Algorithms, implementation and validation. Ocean Modelling 49-50 (2012) 1–21

# define VORTEX

CPP options:

# undef  OPENMP
# undef  MPI
# undef  AGRIF
# undef  AGRIF_2WAY
# undef  NBQ
# define SOLVE3D
# define UV_COR
# define UV_ADV
# define ANA_STFLUX
# define ANA_SMFLUX
# define ANA_BSFLUX
# define ANA_BTFLUX
# define ANA_VMIX
# define OBC_EAST
# define OBC_WEST
# define OBC_NORTH
# define OBC_SOUTH
# define SPONGE
# define ZCLIMATOLOGY
# define M2CLIMATOLOGY
# define M3CLIMATOLOGY
# define TCLIMATOLOGY
# define ZNUDGING
# define M2NUDGING
# define M3NUDGING
# define TNUDGING
# define NO_FRCFILE

Settings :

Results :

VORTEX results : difference between parent and child grid (cm)