How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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FEEL2020
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How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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Hello everyone;

As a beginner of ROMS,i meet a question? How to compute the energy dissipation in the model? At present, I use vertical eddy viscosity coefficient(Km), bottom friction and horizontal viscosity as dissipation. Is this method reasonable?Is there a way to output energy dissipation?

Thank you in advance.

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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Or use the diagnostic files(Diagnostic momentum terms) to calculate the energy of dissipation ?

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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Hi Feel,

Did you find any way to calculate the dissipation?

Thanks

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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Now I calculate the dissipation by Diagnostic momentum terms

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

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We give some details about using the ROMS diagnostics to calculate terms in energy budgets in this paper. Email me if you want a copy. pmacc@uw.edu

MacCready, P., and S. N. Giddings, 2016: The Mechanical Energy Budget of a Regional Ocean Model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46, JPO-D-16-0086.1, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-16-0086.1.

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

#6 Unread post by SivaHeramb »

Hi pmaccc,

Thanks for your previous reply.

I calculated terms according to the budget equations based on your paper (MacCready 2016).

In my case, kinetic energy clearly decreases with time, but the KE_storage term in the budget comes out to be a positive value. I was not clear how could this happen.

Also, I was wondering how does the Coriolis term comes into these equations, as it should not be contributing to the kinetic energy.

Could you please give some insight on these two questions?

Thanks in advance.
Siva

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

#7 Unread post by pmaccc »

Siva - that is a perplexing result. How do you know that KE decreases with time?

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

#8 Unread post by SivaHeramb »

I calculated the kinetic energy from u and v velocities. It decreases with time.

And, I calculated the KE storage term (in the budget equation) using huon and u_accel.

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Re: How to compute the energy dissipation in the model

#9 Unread post by pmaccc »

Siva,

Budgets can be surprisingly difficult to calculate, and are easy to make coding errors in. When you make a budget term from the diagnostics, try to make the same budget term from scratch using the history files, and then plot the two on the same graph vs. time. In most cases they should be reasonably similar. The most important thing is to start with simpler fields. First, construct a budget of volume. If this cannot be done with reasonably small error then there is no point on going on to more complicated budgets (salt or temp would be next). The volume budget error should be near machine precision when using fields from the averages.

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