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Temperature flux due to frazil ice melting in seawater is incorrect #6975

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cbegeman opened this issue Feb 5, 2025 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6976
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Temperature flux due to frazil ice melting in seawater is incorrect #6975

cbegeman opened this issue Feb 5, 2025 · 1 comment · Fixed by #6976
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cbegeman commented Feb 5, 2025

When frazil ice melts in MPAS-Ocean it is a freshwater volume flux (not a virtual flux). As such, there should be two components to the temperature tendency due to frazil melt, a latent heat flux and a flux associated with the mixing of water at the freezing point with the ambient seawater. The latter is not included (a bug).

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cbegeman commented Feb 5, 2025

The first temperature tendency term that is currently included in master is here:

! ocean fluid temperature is cooled due to melting of frazil
frazilTemperatureTendency(k,iCell) = - ( meltedFrazilIceThickness * config_frazil_heat_of_fusion &
* config_frazil_ice_density ) / (config_specific_heat_sea_water * rho_sw) &
/ dt

The missing term added by #6976 is:

! ocean fluid temperature is modified due to mixing of existing water with meltwater at the freezing point
frazilTemperatureTendency(k,iCell) = frazilTemperatureTendency(k,iCell) + &
meltedFrazilIceThickness * oceanFreezingTemperature / dt

jonbob added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 12, 2025
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Bugfix for frazil ice temperature tendency

Add temperature tendency due to mixing of frazil meltwater with
seawater. When frazil ice melts in MPAS-Ocean it is a freshwater volume
flux (not a virtual flux). As such, there should be two components to
the temperature tendency due to frazil melt, a latent heat flux and a
flux associated with the mixing of water at the freezing point with the
ambient seawater. The latter was not included (a bug).

Fixes #6975
[non-BFB] for all configurations with mpas-ocean
@jonbob jonbob closed this as completed in f8e02d7 Feb 13, 2025
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