plume_mod Module

The thickness of the plume

The velocity of the plume

The derivative of the velocity field

The temperature of the plume

The derivative of the temperature of the plume

The salinity of the plume

The derivative of the salinity of the plume

An object which provides the parameterisation for entrainment of water into the plume.

An object which provides the parameterisation for melting, salt, and heat fluxes from the plume to the ice.

An object specifying the temperature and salinity of the ambient ocean at its interface with the plume.

An object specifying the equation of state relating the plume water's density to its temperature and salinity.

An object specifying the boundary conditions for the plume.

The dimensionless ratio $\delta \equiv \frac{D_0}{h_0}$

The dimensionless ratio $\nu \equiv \frac{\kappa_0}{x_0U_o}$

The dimensionless ratio $\mu \equiv \frac{C_dx_0}{D_0}$

The dimensionless ratio of the ocean water density to the density of the overlying ice shelf.

The inverse Rossby number, $\Phi \equiv \frac{fx_0}{U_0}$

The time at which the ice shelf is in this state

The number of data values in the thickness field

The number of data values in the velocity field

The number of data values in the temperature field

the number of data values in the salinity field

Which variables have boundary conditions at the grounding line.

Which variables have boundary conditions at the calving front.

A pseudospectral differentiation block which can be used for preconditioning.

A plume object with its domain and initial conditions set according to the arguments of the constructor function.

An array containing the upper and lower limits of the domain for the plume. The first index represents the dimension for which the boundaries apply. If the second index is 1 then it corresponds to the lower bound. If the second index is 2 then it corresponds to the upper bound.

The number of data points in each dimension

A function which calculates the initial value of the thickness of the plume at a given location.

A function which calculates the initial value of the velocity (vector) of the water at a given location in a plume.

A function which calculates the initial value of the temperature of the plume at a given location.

A function which calculates the initial value of the salinity of the plume at a given location.

An object which calculates entrainment into the plume. Will be unallocated on exit. Defaults to that used by Jenkins (1991) with the coefficient $E_0 = 1$.

An object which calculates melting and the resulting thermal transfer into/out of the plume. Will be unallocated on exit. Defaults to that used by Dallaston et al. (2015), scaled to be consistent with the nondimensionalisation used here.

An object specifying the salinity and temperature of the ambient ocean. Will be unallocated on exit. Defaults to uniform ambient salinity and temperature, both of which are set to 0 (as temperature and salinity are measured relative to some reference value).

An object specifying the equation of state for the water in the plume. Will be unallocated on exit. Defaults to linearised equation of state with no temperature dependence and a haline contraction coefficient of 1. The reference density is set to be 1 in the dimensionless units when salinity and temeprature are 0.

An object providing the boundary conditions for the plume. Will be unallocated on exit. Defaults to those used by Dallaston et al. (2015).

The dimensionless ratio $\delta \equiv \frac{D_0}{h_0}$. Defaults to 0.036.

The dimensionless ratio $\nu \equiv \frac{\kappa_0}{x_0U_o}$. Defaults to 0.

The dimensionless ratio $\mu \equiv \frac{\C_dx_0}{D_0}$. Defaults to 0.

The dimensionless ratio of the water density to the ice shelf density, $r = \rho_0/\rho_i.$ Defaults to 1.12.

The inverse Rossby number, $\Phi \equif \frac{fx_0}{U_0}$. Defaults to 0.

A real array containing the data describing the state of the plume.

The ice thickness which, if present, will be used to update the calculation of the melt rate.

The identifier for the HDF5 file/group in which this data is meant to be written.

The name to give the group in the HDF5 file storing the ice shelf's data.

Flag indicating whether routine ran without error. If no error occurs then has value 0.

The identifier for the HDF5 file/group in which this data is meant to be written.

The name to give the group in the HDF5 file storing the ice shelf's data.

Flag indicating whether routine ran without error. If no error occurs then has value 0.

Thickness of the ice above the basal surface

The density of the ice above the basal surface, assumed uniform

The temperature of the ice above the basal surface, assumed uniform

The time to which the basal surface should be solved

True if the solver is successful, false otherwise