GEOMETRIC and OSMOSIS SETTE testing
Context
The GEOMETRIC eddy-induced velocity parameterisation has been made compatible with RK3 time stepping (#501 (closed)) and the OSMOSIS vertical-mixing parameterisation is being updated (#281), both in preparation for the NEMO version 5.0 release. Neither of these two schemes has been activated in a reference configuration or a centrally maintained test case yet, and they remain untested in the standard SETTE testing procedure.
Proposal
It is proposed to enable both the GEOMETRIC and OSMOSIS parameterisations in a variant of the GYRE_PISCES
SETTE configuration, GYRE_GO
, in order to activate these two parameterisations in SETTE testing, both for NEMO version 5.0 and NEMO main
. In addition to the activation of the GEOMETRIC and OSMOSIS parameterisations, three further alterations of the GYRE_PISCES
default settings are proposed: the use of temporally and spatially varying instead of constant vertical scale factors (key_qco
instead of key_linssh
), the use of a higher vertical resolution, and the deactivation of passive-tracer transport (key_top
) and the PISCES biogeochemistry model.