I am analyzing the temperature tendency contributions over continental North America and the ice-covered Arctic during winter in CAM5 (CESM1-CAM5, F_1850_CAM5 compset with prescribed SSTs and sea ice, constant pre-industrial CO2), often within the first couple of model layers near the surface. I am trying to understand the vertical mixing parametrizations so that I can identify which variables are driving periods of strong DTV (in particular, strong cooling/negative temperature tendencies). From digging through the technical documentation and source code, there seem to be the following contributions:
- SHFLX, sensible heat flux, is added to DTV at the lowest model level
- UW_kvh, the eddy diffusivity of heat
- the counter-gradient term for heat, which is cgh in the source code and seems to be the non-local turbulent transport but doesn't appear to have a corresponding history output available
- the vertical first and second derivative of dry static energy, which can be computed from T and height