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34.6.2 am_cosine

One sub-option for varhmix is option am_cosine which applies a cosine function to the constant value of am to counteract the convergence of meridians. When implemented with the option  laplacian_velocity, the Laplacian viscosity is given by

\begin{displaymath}A_{l} = am \cdot csuj.
\end{displaymath} (34.73)

When implemented with option biharmonic_velocity, the biharmonic viscosity is given by

\begin{displaymath}A_{b} = ambi \cdot (csuj)^{3}.
\end{displaymath} (34.74)



RC Pacanowski and SM Griffies, GFDL, Jan 2000