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Equation of State (EOS)

Omega includes an Eos class that provides functions that compute SpecVol and SpecVolDisplaced. Current EOS options are a linear EOS or an EOS computed using the TEOS-10 75 term expansion from Roquet et al. 2015. If SpecVolDisplaced is calculated with the linear EOS option, it will be equal to SpecVol as there is no pressure/depth dependence for the linear EOS. SpecVolDisplaced computes specific volume adiabatically displaced to K + KDisp.

Eos type

An enumeration listing all implemented schemes is provided. It needs to be extended every time an EOS is added. It is used to identify which EOS method is to be used at run time.

enum class EosType { LinearEos, Teos10Eos };

Initialization

An instance of the Eos class requires a HorzMesh, so the mesh class and all of its dependencies need to be initialized before the Eos class can be. The static method:

OMEGA::Eos::init();

initializes the default Eos. A pointer to it can be retrieved at any time using:

OMEGA::Eos* DefEos = OMEGA::Eos::getInstance();

Computation of Eos

To compute SpecVol for a particular set of temperature, salinity, and pressure arrays, do

Eos.computeSpecVol(ConsrvTemp, AbsSalinity, Pressure);

SpecVolDisplaced is calculated using local temperature and salinity values, but a pressure value at K + KDisp. To compute SpecVolDisplaced for a particular set of temperature, salinity, and pressure arrays and displaced vertical index level, do

Eos.computeSpecVolDisp(ConsrvTemp, AbsSalinity, Pressure, KDisp);

where KDisp is the number of k levels you want to displace each specific volume level to. For example, to displace each level to one below, set KDisp = 1.

Bounds check (and truncation) for the state variables (under TEOS-10)

The implemented 75-term polynomial for the calculation of the specific volume under TEOS-10 has been evaluated for ocean states in the ‘’cube” (-2-40 C ;0-42 g/kg; 0-10,000 dbar) and the ‘’oceanographic funnel’’ defined in McDougall et al., 2003. When using TEOS-10, the Eos uses member methods calcSLimits(P) and calcTLimits(Sa, P) to calculate the valid ranges of Sa and T. When using the Funnel opion of EosLimits, the salinity limits are calculated as a function of pressure and the temperature limits as a function of pressure and salinity. The conservative temperature lower bound is set by the freezing temperature, using the member method calcCtFreezing(Sa, P, SaturationFract). This method implements the polynomial approximation of the conservative freezing temperature (called gsw_ct_freezing_poly in the GSW package), which is known to produce erros in the (-5e-4 K, 6e-4 K) range. When using the Cube option of EosLimits, the bounds are constant. Once we calculate the upper and lower bounds of validity, warnings are issued when the state variables are outside the validity bounds. If ClampingEnable is true, the state variables are clipped to the valid range (if outside the bounds) before we run the specific volume calculation. The state fields themselves are not changed. If ClampingEnable is false, the warnings are issued but the specific volume is calculated based on the unchanged state variables.

The computation of the TEOS-10 specific volume relies on 3 underlying member functions:

calcPCoeffs(SpecVolPCoeffs, K, ConsrvTemp, AbsSalinity, Pressure);

which calculates the coefficents that will be applied to the pressure. These coefficients are dependent on the temperature and salinity variables but not the pressure. The pressure argument present in the function call is only used to set the bounds of T,S validity. This function is where the bulk of the polynomial calculation takes place and thus it is advised to reuse the SpecVolPCoeffs which are a class data member if possible to reduce computational expense.

calcRefProfile(Pressure);

which calculates the ocean reference profile as a function of pressure in the layers. This is a simple 6th order polynomial in P with constant coefficients. It could be reused within a timestep provided that the layer pressures do not change but is cheap to recalculate.

calcDelta(SpecVolPCoeffs, K, Pressure);

which applies the SpecVolPCoeffs calculated above to the pressure state variable. This “delta” in specific volume is added to the reference profile calculated above. This step is a simple 5th order polynomial in pressure, which combines the effects of T,S (pre-calculated in calcPCoeffs) and the pressure.

Removal of Eos

To clear the Eos instance do:

OMEGA::Eos::destroyInstance();