To help keep the model numerically stable, an explicit viscosity is
added to the system through variables viscx
and viscy
(set in subroutine DriveInit
). This viscosity is equivalent to the
coefficient in the advection-diffusion operators (e.g. equation
5.11 and 5.12 in Neelin and Zeng [1]), with one
subtle difference. In the model, instead of making
isotropic,
is specified separately for the x and y-directions. Thus,
the diffusion term
is actually represented as
in the model.