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Tidal mixing

The tidally driven mixing parameterization implemented in CESM1 POP2 is described in Jayne (2009). See the POP Reference Manual for details.

Table: Tidal mixing namelist (CESM only)
&tidal_nml CESM1 dipole-grid default CESM1 tripole-grid default Valid
values
Tidal mixing
ltidal_mixing .true. .false. .true.,.false. if .true., activate the tidally driven mixing parameterization
local_mixing_fraction 0.33 0.33   fraction of energy available for mixing local to the generation region
mixing_efficiency 0.2 0.2   mixing efficiency
vertical_decay_scale 500.0e02 500.0e02   vertical decay scale for turbulence (cm)
tidal_mix_max 100.0 100.0    
tidal_energy_file auto-filled by CESM1 POP2 scripts auto-filled by CESM1 POP2 scripts 'unknown_tidal_energy_file'; string ≤ 256 characters input file for reading tidal energy flux
tidal_energy_file_fmt 'bin' 'bin' 'bin', 'nc' input file format (binary or netCDF)
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2010-04-01