Dear all,
I am having troubles trying to understand why my nitrate_vertical_advection field (NO3_vadv) is different from my nitrate_multiplied_by_vertical_velocity field (w*NO3, w is true vertical velocity - not Omega), to within a constant.
I mean I should have similar trend, right? However, I do observe regions with complete different behavior (see figure attached). I guess I am missing something but I can't figure out what.
Any suggestion?
For information:
My NO3_vadv is computed online by ROMS, saved every 1 day.
My w*NO3 is computed offline, with w and NO3 saved every 1 day.
Thanks
Fanny
nitrate vertical advection versus nitrate*vertical velocity
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nitrate vertical advection versus nitrate*vertical velocity
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Re: nitrate vertical advection versus nitrate*vertical veloc
Hi Fanny.
For a tracer, C, the vertical advection term in the tracer equation is wdC/dz or in flux-conservative form d(wC)/dz. It is the flux divergence that causes changes to a tracer value in a cell, not the flux across any cell boundary alone.
ROMS is written in a flux conservative form and I think it's calculating this quantity in s-space (i.e., d(omega C)/ds), but a calculation of d(wC)/dz using fields stored in the avg files should be much closer than wC.
Chris
For a tracer, C, the vertical advection term in the tracer equation is wdC/dz or in flux-conservative form d(wC)/dz. It is the flux divergence that causes changes to a tracer value in a cell, not the flux across any cell boundary alone.
ROMS is written in a flux conservative form and I think it's calculating this quantity in s-space (i.e., d(omega C)/ds), but a calculation of d(wC)/dz using fields stored in the avg files should be much closer than wC.
Chris