[ncl-talk] Mixed Layer Depth

[Dennis Shea]

I forgot to mention ... This is not what you want but the following may be
of use to you sometime:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/iso.shtml

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Unfortunately, this function has incomplete documentation. This function
> should likely be named 'mixed_layer_depth_PopModel' or some such thing. It
> is *not* a general purpose code.
> Rather, I think it is a function used by the CESM ocean post-processing
> code.
>
> ===
> The paper referred to by the ncl-talk post in 12/2013 (has R-code)
>
> Kara et al (2000) "An optimal definition for ocean mixed layer depth".
> JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 105, NO. C7, PAGES 16,803-16,821
>
> is at:
>
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2000JC900072/abstract
>
> ===
>
> fortran-90 code
>   http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/nmld/nmld.html.030214
>
> ==
> Matlab:
>   http://www.ecco-group.org/pdfs/reports/report_38.pdf
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> I'll send you the source..  I don't about the origins of that code
>> however..
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Giorgio Graffino <
>> giorgio.graffino at alice.it> wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear NCL Users,
>>> I'm trying to use the built-in function mixed_layer_depth (
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/mixed_layer_depth.shtml)
>>> in my code (see .ncl attachment) to compute Water Mass Formation rate in
>>> the Gulf of Lion, but result doesn't convince me (too large depths!!).
>>> Unfortunately, there's not so much documentation on that function. I
>>> just found some ncl-talk messages in the archive (such as
>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/2013/3941.html), but
>>> without finding any exhaustive information.
>>> Is there anyone who can address me to the reference papers used to write
>>> that function? What is the physical mechanism?
>>> I'm using NCL 6.2.0 on a system
>>> *giorgio at Giorgio-PC:~$ uname -a*
>>> *Linux Giorgio-PC 3.13.0-39-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:30:27
>>> UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux*
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>> Giorgio Graffino
>>>
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