8.2.1. Generic Advection/Diffusion

The generic_advdiff package contains high-level subroutines to solve the advection-diffusion equation of any tracer, either active (potential temperature, salinity or water vapor) or passive (see pkg/ptracer). (see also Section 2.16 and Section 2.17).

8.2.1.1. Introduction

Package “generic_advdiff” provides a common set of routines for calculating advective/diffusive fluxes for tracers (cell centered quantities on a C-grid).

Many different advection schemes are available: the standard centered second order, centered fourth order and upwind biased third order schemes are known as linear methods and require some stable time-stepping method such as Adams-Bashforth. Alternatives such as flux-limited schemes are stable in the forward sense and are best combined with the multi-dimensional method provided in gad_advection.

8.2.1.2. Key subroutines, parameters and files

There are two high-level routines:

  • GAD_CALC_RHS calculates all fluxes at time level “n” and is used for the standard linear schemes. This must be used in conjuction with Adams–Bashforth time stepping. Diffusive and parameterized fluxes are always calculated here.

  • GAD_ADVECTION calculates just the advective fluxes using the non-linear schemes and can not be used in conjuction with Adams–Bashforth time stepping.

CPP Flag Name

Default

Description

COSINEMETH_III

#define

sets the form of \(\cos{\varphi}\) scaling of horizontal bi-harmonic terms for tracer diffusivity

ISOTROPIC_COS_SCALING

#undef

selects isotropic scaling of horizontal harmonic and bi-harmonic terms when using the \(\cos{\varphi}\) scaling

DISABLE_MULTIDIM_ADVECTION

#undef

disables compilation of multi-dim. advection code

GAD_MULTIDIM_COMPRESSIBLE

#undef

use compressible flow method for multi-dim advection instead of older, less accurate method; note option has no effect on SOM advection which always uses compressible flow method

GAD_ALLOW_TS_SOM_ADV

#undef

enable the use of 2nd-order moment advection scheme (Prather 1986 [Pra86]) for temp. and salinity

GAD_SMOLARKIEWICZ_HACK

#undef

enables hack to get rid of negatives caused by Redi, see Smolarkiewicz (1989) [Smo89] (for ptracers, except temp and salinity)

8.2.1.3. GAD Diagnostics

------------------------------------------------------------------------
<-Name->|Levs|<-parsing code->|<--  Units   -->|<- Tile (max=80c)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADVr_TH | 15 |WM      LR      |degC.m^3/s      |Vertical   Advective Flux of Pot.Temperature
ADVx_TH | 15 |UU   087MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Zonal      Advective Flux of Pot.Temperature
ADVy_TH | 15 |VV   086MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Meridional Advective Flux of Pot.Temperature
DFrE_TH | 15 |WM      LR      |degC.m^3/s      |Vertical Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature (Explicit part)
DIFx_TH | 15 |UU   090MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Zonal      Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature
DIFy_TH | 15 |VV   089MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Meridional Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature
DFrI_TH | 15 |WM      LR      |degC.m^3/s      |Vertical Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature (Implicit part)
ADVr_SLT| 15 |WM      LR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Vertical   Advective Flux of Salinity
ADVx_SLT| 15 |UU   094MR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Zonal      Advective Flux of Salinity
ADVy_SLT| 15 |VV   093MR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Meridional Advective Flux of Salinity
DFrE_SLT| 15 |WM      LR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Vertical Diffusive Flux of Salinity    (Explicit part)
DIFx_SLT| 15 |UU   097MR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Zonal      Diffusive Flux of Salinity
DIFy_SLT| 15 |VV   096MR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Meridional Diffusive Flux of Salinity
DFrI_SLT| 15 |WM      LR      |(g/kg).m^3/s    |Vertical Diffusive Flux of Salinity    (Implicit part)

8.2.1.4. Experiments and tutorials that use GAD