Cloud Base Mass Flux in ZM scheme

[sandeep@caos_iisc_ernet_in]

Greetings CAM users,

As a part of my research I want to do some analysis related to the cloud base mass flux. For this purpose i have stored the variable "mb" in the ZM scheme by calling the addfld() and outfld() subroutines at appropriate places:

addfld() is called in convect_deep.F90, where other fields like "ZMDT" are added, and

outfld() is called in zm_conv.F90, after the call to the closure subroutine and the checking of the theoretical upper bound

As the units of "mb" (cloud base mass flux) are not mentioned anywhere, assuming the units to be "kg/m2/s" (same as "CMFMC"), the values which I get are several orders of magnitude higher than what is expected.

It would be of great help if any of you could please let me know the units of "mb" and the expected range of values.


Thanking you in Advance,
With best regards,
Sandeep

 

[sandeep@caos_iisc_ernet_in]

Dear CAM users,
It would be of great help if any of you could at least give some pointers to solve the mentioned issue.


Thanking you in Advance,
With warm regards,
Sandeep

 

[sandeep@caos_iisc_ernet_in]

Greetings Everybody,
I was able to figure out the problem. I didn't gather the values back to their longitude indices and hence was getting crazy values in the history file.




Thanks,
Sandeep