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Energy Exascale Earth System Model source code. NOTE: use "maint" branches for your work. Head of master is not validated.
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Regional OHT offset #5110

Open alicebarthel opened 2 years ago

alicebarthel commented 2 years ago

The analysis member mpas_ocn_meridional_heat_transport.F includes the capability of computing regional OHT. Given the regional masks (e.g. 'Atlantic_MOC' starts at 32S), we need to add the heat transport at 32S, just like we do with the MOC integration.

xylar commented 2 years ago

@milenaveneziani, is this something you have done already in a branch somewhere? I vaguely remember discussing this at some point.

milenaveneziani commented 2 years ago

No, I think I raised this as an issue/bug in the old MPAS-O repo. The current regional calculation is actually wrong as it starts from a 0 heat transport at 32S, instead of actually calculating it as we do with the volume transport for the MOC am.