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1 \subsection {DIC Package}
2 \label{sec:pkg:dic}
3 \begin{rawhtml}
4 <!-- CMIREDIR:package_dic: -->
5 \end{rawhtml}
6
7 \subsubsection {Introduction}
8 This is one of the biogeochemical packages handled from the
9 pkg gchem. The main purpose of this package is to consider
10 the cycling of carbon in the ocean. It also looks at the
11 cycling of phosphorous and potentially oxygen and iron.
12 There are four standard tracers
13 $DIC$, $ALK$, $PO4$, $DOP$ and also possibly $O2$ and $Fe$.
14 The air-sea exchange
15 of CO$_2$ and O$_2$ are handled as in the OCMIP experiments
16 (reference). The export of biological matter is computed
17 as a function of available light and PO$_4$ (and Fe). This export is
18 remineralized at depth according to a Martin curve (again,
19 this is the same as in the OCMIP experiments). There is
20 also a representation of the carbonate flux handled as in
21 the OCMIP experiments. The air-sea exchange on CO$_2$
22 is affected by temperature, salinity and the pH of the
23 surface waters. The pH is determined following the
24 method of Follows et al.
25 For more details of the equations see section
26 \ref{sec:eg-biogeochem_tutorial}.
27
28 \subsubsection {Key subroutines and parameters}
29
30 \noindent
31 {{\bf INITIALIZATION}} \\
32 {\it DIC\_ABIOTIC.h} contains the common block for the
33 parameters and fields needed to calculate the air-sea
34 flux of $CO_2$ and $O_2$. The fixed parameters are set in
35 {\it dic\_abiotic\_param} which is called from {\it gchem\_init\_fixed.F}.
36 The parameters needed for the biotic part of the calculations
37 are initialized in {\it dic\_biotic\_param} and are stored
38 in {\it DIC\_BIOTIC.h}. The first guess of pH is calculated
39 in {\it dic\_surfforcing\_init.F}.
40
41 \vspace{.5cm}
42
43 \noindent
44 {{\bf LOADING FIELDS}}\\
45 The air-sea exchange of $CO_2$ and $O_2$ need wind, atmospheric
46 pressure (although the current version has this hardwired to 1),
47 and sea-ice coverage. The calculation of pH needs silica fields.
48 These fields are read in in {\it dic\_fields\_load.F}. These
49 fields are initialized to zero in {\it dic\_ini\_forcing.F}.
50 The fields for interpolating are in common block in
51 {\it DIC\_LOAD.h}.
52
53 \vspace{.5cm}
54
55 \noindent
56 {{\bf FORCING}}\\
57 The tracers are advected-diffused in {\it ptracers\_integrate.F}.
58 The updated tracers are passed to {\it dic\_biotic\_forcing.F}
59 where the effects of the air-sea exchange and biological
60 activity and remineralization are calculated and the tracers
61 are updated for a second time. Below we discuss the
62 subroutines called from {\it dic\_biotic\_forcing.F}.
63
64
65 Air-sea exchange of $CO_2$ is calculated in {\it dic\_surfforcing}.
66 Air-Sea Exchange of $CO_2$ depends on T,S and pH. The determination
67 of pH is done in {\it carbon\_chem.F}. There are three subroutines
68 in this file: {\it carbon\_coeffs} which determines the coefficients
69 for the carbon chemistry equations; {\it calc\_pco2} which calculates
70 the pH using a Newton-Raphson method; and {\it calc\_pco2\_approx}
71 which uses the much more efficient method of Follows et al.
72 The latter is hard-wired into this package, the former is kept
73 here for completeness.
74
75 Biological productivity is determined following
76 Dutkiewicz et al. (2005) and is calculated in {\it bio\_export.F}
77 The light in each latitude band is calculate in {\it insol.F},
78 unless using one of the flags listed below.
79 The formation of hard tissue (carbonate) is linked to
80 the biological productivity and has an effect on the
81 alkalinity - the flux of carbonate is calculated in
82 {\it car\_flux.F}, unless using the flag listed below
83 for the Friis et al (2006) scheme. The flux of phosphate to depth where
84 it instantly remineralized is calculated in {\it phos\_flux.F}.
85
86 The dilution or concentration of carbon and alkalinity by
87 the addition or subtraction of freshwater is important to
88 their surface patterns. These "virtual" fluxes can be calculated
89 by the model in several ways.
90 The older scheme is done following OCMIP protocols (see
91 more in Dutkiewicz et al 2005), in the subroutines
92 {\it dic\_surfforcing.F} and {\it alk\_surfforcing.F}.
93 To use this you need to set in GCHEM\_OPTIONS.h:\\
94 \#define ALLOW\_OLD\_VIRTUALFLUX\\
95 But this can also be done by the ptracers pkg if this
96 is undefined. You will then need to set the concentration
97 of the tracer in rainwater and potentially a reference
98 tracer value in data.ptracer
99 (PTRACERS\_EvPrRn, and PTRACERS\_ref respectively).
100
101 Oxygen air-sea exchange is calculated in {\it o2\_surfforcing.F}.
102
103 Iron chemistry (the amount of free iron) is taken care of in
104 {\it fe\_chem.F}.
105
106 \vspace{.5cm}
107
108 \noindent
109 {{\bf DIAGNOSTICS}}\\
110 Averages of air-sea exchanges, biological productivity,
111 carbonate activity and pH are calculated. These are
112 initialized to zero in {\it dic\_biotic\_init} and
113 are stored in common block in {\it DIC\_BIOTIC.h}.
114
115 \vspace{.5cm}
116
117 \noindent
118 {{\bf COMPILE TIME FLAGS}}\\
119 These are set in GCHEM\_OPTIONS.h: \\
120
121 DIC\_BIOTIC: needs to be set for dic to work properly
122 (should be fixed sometime).\\
123 ALLOW\_O2: include the tracer oxygen.\\
124 ALLOW\_FE: include the tracer iron. Note you will need an
125 iron dust file set in data.gchem in this case.\\
126 MINFE: limit the iron, assuming precpitation of any
127 excess free iron.\\
128 CAR\_DISS: use the calcium carbonate scheme of Friis et al 2006.\\
129 ALLOW\_OLD\_VIRTUALFLUX: use the old OCMIP style virtual flux
130 for alklinity adn carbon (rather than doing it through pkg/ptracers).
131 \\
132 READ\_PAR: read the light (photosynthetically available
133 radiation) from a file set in data.gchem.\\
134 USE\_QSW: use the numbers from QSW to be the PAR. Note that
135 a file for Qsw must be supplied in data, or Qsw must be
136 supplied by an atmospheric model.\\
137 If the above two flags are not set, the model calculates
138 PAR in insol.F as a function of latitude and year day.\\
139 USE\_QSW\_UNDERICE: if using a sea ice model, or if the
140 Qsw variable has the seaice fraction already taken into
141 account, this flag must be set.\\
142 \\
143 AD\_SAFE: will use a tanh function instead of a
144 max function - this is better if using the adjoint\\
145 DIC\_NO\_NEG: will include some failsafes in case any
146 of the variables become negative. (This is advicable).
147 ALLOW\_DIC\_COST: was used for calculating cost function
148 (but hasn't been updated or maintained, so not sure if it works still)
149
150
151
152 \subsubsection{Do's and Don'ts}
153
154 This package must be run with both ptracers and gchem enabled.
155 It is set up for at least 4 tracers, but there is the provision for
156 oxygen and iron. Note the flags above.
157
158 \subsubsection{Reference Material}
159
160 Dutkiewicz. S., A. Sokolov, J. Scott and P. Stone, 2005:
161 A Three-Dimensional Ocean-Seaice-Carbon Cycle Model and its Coupling
162 to a Two-Dimensional Atmospheric Model: Uses in Climate Change Studies,
163 Report 122, Joint Program of the Science and Policy of Global Change,
164 M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
165 \\
166
167 Follows, M., T. Ito and S. Dutkiewicz, 2006:
168 A Compact and Accurate Carbonate Chemistry Solver for Ocean
169 Biogeochemistry Models. {\it Ocean Modeling}, 12, 290-301.
170 \\
171
172 Friis, K., R. Najjar, M.J. Follows, and S. Dutkiewicz, 2006:
173 Possible overestimation of shallow-depth calcium carbonate
174 dissolution in the ocean,
175 {\it Global Biogeochemical Cycles}, 20, GB4019, doi:10.1029/2006GB002727.
176 \\
177
178
179 \subsubsection{Experiments and tutorials that use dic}
180 \label{sec:pkg:dic:experiments}
181
182 \begin{itemize}
183 \item{Global Ocean tutorial, in tutorial\_global\_oce\_biogeo verification directory,
184 described in section \ref{sec:eg-biogeochem_tutorial} }
185 \end{itemize}
186

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