Issue #1: How do we implement the alpha model within the barotropic/baroclinic
splitting of POP?
The POP-alpha model
level
1
level
2
level
3
level K
level
1
level
2
level
3
level K
barotropic
part
¥ single layer
¥ implicit time
step
baroclinic
part
¥ multiple
levels
¥ explicit time
step
¥ vertical mean
= 0
vertically integrated
fast surface gravity waves
slower internal gravity waves
full ocean
(vertical section)