
I have a Western Pacific model based on ROMS (version 3.9) with a resolution of ~5.5km. I chose 4-th order centered advection for tracers and moment.
The model had run for 5 years successfully. I want to add passive tracers at the beginning of the 6th year.
I set the boundary and initial value of dye_01 as 0 and turn on T_PASSIVE. I chose HSIMT advection for the passive tracer.
After one month simulated I got undulatory surface salt and temp(below are the surface salinity), which disappeared with the T_PASSIVE option turned off.