Perhaps we should build back in the high resolution version of the hydrostatic vertical modes, so that we can quickly construct a high resolution version of rho_nm at the current time from the mda. We can simultaneously construct a version of N2.
With these, in an interpolation algorithm, I think we can compute a closed version of the potential enstrophy nonlinear advection flux, which doesn't appear to close if we use a mismatched form of N2 and eta.