{"refrec":{"BRefID":23703,"RR":"<b>Beckers, J.-M.; Burchard, H.; Campin, J.M.; Deleersnijder, E.; Mathieu, P.-P.</b> (1998). Another reason why simple discretizations of rotated diffusion operators cause problems in ocean models: comments on \"Isoneutral diffusion in a z-coordinate ocean model\". <i>J. Phys. Oceanogr. 28</i>: 1552-1559. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1552:ARWSDO>2.0.CO;2\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1552:ARWSDO>2.0.CO;2</a>","BEntID":23703,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":null,"RefStringPartII":". <i>J. Phys. Oceanogr. 28</i>: 1552-1559. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1552:ARWSDO>2.0.CO;2\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1552:ARWSDO>2.0.CO;2</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Beckers, J.-M.; Burchard, H.; Campin, J.M.; Deleersnijder, E.; Mathieu, P.-P.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Beckers, J.-M. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"In recent papers the problem of isopycnal diffusion and Gent-McWilliams stirring in z-coordinate models was reviewed and a new discretization proposed. It was shown that classical discretization needs rather heavy background diffusion along the grid lines in order to stabilize the scheme. Griffies et al. show the possible origin of the problem: one reason is the imperfect balancing of temperature and salinity diffusive fluxes along neutral surfaces and the other one the existence in the Cox discretization of a 2 Delta x mode invisible to the cross derivative in the isopycnal diffusion. The authors then present solutions, which they show to work properly in an experiment for long climate runs. Here, we will broaden the discussion of the problem by pinning up another basic numerical difficulty in discretizing rotated diffusion operators. 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