Implementing a daytime convective development over land idealized test case

[favba]

I'd like to implement the idealized test case described in https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/gcss-wg4/gcss/case4.html on MPAS.
This case mimics a convective development over land using observation data.

This idealized test case demands:

1. Adding a prescribed evolving (variable in time) surface sensible heat flux
2. Adding a prescribed evolving surface latent heat flux
3. Adding a prescribed evolving radiative cooling "source" (sink) term
4. Adding a relaxation term to the momentum equations to maintain a constant mean flow given by the initial conditions.

Here are my questions:

1) It seems to me that I'd have to add new functionality "from scratch" to MPAS to provide items 3 and 4. Am I correct on that assessment?
2) It seems to me that I could implement items 1 and 2 by abusing the SST streams from MPAS, would that work? Or should I implement that from scratch also?

Best,

Felipe

 

[Ming Chen]

Felipe,
I take a quick look at those idealized tests in the document you posted. I agree that you can use SST stream to address items 1 and 2. However, I am afrid that you have to start from scratch to address items 3 and 4.