Showing papers in "Ocean Modelling in 2016"
TL;DR: Results from several test cases demonstrate the model's good performance in the eddying regime, which presents greater challenges for unstructured-grid models and represents the last missing link for the cross-scale model.
317 citations
National Center for Atmospheric Research1, Texas A&M University2, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences3, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research4, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation5, Goddard Institute for Space Studies6, Earth System Research Laboratory7, Florida State University8, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton9, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research10, Russian Academy of Sciences11, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen12, International Centre for Theoretical Physics13, Central Maine Community College14, Massachusetts Institute of Technology15, Japan Meteorological Agency16, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory17, City University of New York18, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University19, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology20, Columbia University21, IFREMER22, Finnish Meteorological Institute23, Bedford Institute of Oceanography24
TL;DR: Danabasoglu et al. as discussed by the authors presented simulated inter-annual to decadal variability and trends in the North Atlantic for the 1958-2007 period from twenty global ocean-ice coupled models.
146 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of spectral wave models is conducted using satellite measurements, buoy spectra, and a comparison between the different models, and it is confirmed that all models perform well in terms of significant wave heights; however higher-order moments have larger errors.
131 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a model-based seasonal climatology of iceberg melt over the Southern Ocean using state-of-the-art observed glaciological estimates of the Antarctic mass loss is proposed.
118 citations
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research1, University of Bergen2, National Oceanography Centre3, National Center for Atmospheric Research4, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences5, Florida State University6, University of Washington7, Central Maine Community College8, Japan Meteorological Agency9, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory10, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research11, University of Bremen12, University of Oxford13, IFREMER14, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology15, University of New South Wales16
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the results of fourteen global ocean-sea ice models in the framework of the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments, phase II (CORE II).
102 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a wave model is coupled with the ocean model through a modified version of the K-Profile Parameterization (KPP) to approximate the influence of Langmuir mixing.
102 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a stochastic optimization methodology is formulated for computing energy-optimal paths from among time-optimally paths of autonomous vehicles navigating in a dynamic flow field.
98 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess an ensemble of historical dynamical wave climate simulations whereby surface winds taken from GCMs participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) are used to force a spectral wave model.
90 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an approach for Eulerian-Lagrangian large-eddy simulation of bubble plume dynamics is presented and its performance evaluated, including the reproduction of the anisotropic nature of the plume's turbulence.
84 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Baroclinic Jet test case set in a zonally reentrant channel that provides a controllable test of a model capacity at resolving sub-mesoscale dynamics.
84 citations
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research1, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen2, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research3, National Oceanography Centre4, National Center for Atmospheric Research5, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences6, Florida State University7, Centre national de la recherche scientifique8, University of Washington9, Central Maine Community College10, Japan Meteorological Agency11, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory12, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research13, IFREMER14, University of Oxford15, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology16, University of New South Wales17
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the simulated Arctic Ocean in 15 global ocean-sea ice models in the framework of the Coordinated Oceanice Reference Experiments, phase II (CORE-II).
TL;DR: The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 4-dimensional variational (4D-Var) data assimilation tool has been used to compute two sequences of circulation analyses for the U.S. west coast as discussed by the authors.
TL;DR: In this article, a new approximation to the Stokes drift velocity profile based on the exact solution for the Phillips spectrum is explored, which has a much stronger gradient near the surface and lower normalized deviation from the profile computed from the spectra.
TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial structure, magnitude, and directional spectrum of hurricane-induced ocean waves using a high-resolution, fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model and observations was examined.
University of Washington1, United States Naval Research Laboratory2, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research3, IFREMER4, Clarkson University5, Bedford Institute of Oceanography6, University of Texas at San Antonio7, University of Melbourne8, Swinburne University of Technology9, Ocean University of China10, Naval Postgraduate School11, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution12, University of Cambridge13, University of Colorado Boulder14, University of Miami15, University of Otago16, University of Victoria17, German Aerospace Center18, California Institute of Technology19, University of Newcastle20, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts21
TL;DR: In this paper, an implicit trend and evidence for increasing wave energy along the coast of northern Alaska, and this coastal signal is corroborated by satellite altimeter estimates of wave energy.
TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical downscaling framework for multivariate extremes that relates the non-stationary behavior of coastal flooding events to the occurrence probability of daily weather patterns is introduced.
TL;DR: In this paper, the processes and instabilities occurring at the ocean surface in the northern Gulf of Mexico between 96.3°W-86.9°W and 25.4°N-30.7°N are investigated with a regional model at submesoscale-permitting horizontal grid resolution.
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research1, University of Bergen2, National Oceanography Centre3, National Center for Atmospheric Research4, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences5, Florida State University6, Centre national de la recherche scientifique7, University of Washington8, Central Maine Community College9, Japan Meteorological Agency10, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory11, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research12, University of Bremen13, University of Oxford14, IFREMER15, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology16, University of New South Wales17
TL;DR: In this paper, the Arctic liquid freshwater (FW) sources and freshwater content (FWC) were simulated in 14 global ocean-sea ice models in the framework of the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments, phase II (CORE-II) is analyzed.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of mutual interactions among atmosphere, ocean currents and sea surface waves, usually not completely accounted for, in the resulting dense water formation were explored using a fully coupled modeling approach.
TL;DR: In this article, an unstructured-grid model and its application to the North Sea and Baltic Sea is described, focusing on the dynamics in the two basins and in the multiple straits connecting them and more specifically on how the model replicates the temporal and spatial variability of physical processes.
TL;DR: In this article, a wave hindcast from surface winds provides essential space-time information to complement buoy and satellite observations for studies of the marine environment, and the validated high-resolution hindcast sets a baseline for future improvement of spectral wave models.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a multi-year hindcast simulation of the Columbia River estuary and assess the model skill against long-term observational time series, covering the lower estuary (for salinity) as well as most of the tidal river (for water temperature and elevation).
TL;DR: In this article, a two-phase flow CFD model REEF3D has been used for modeling waves breaking over a sloping seabed for a spilling and a plunging breaker.
TL;DR: In this article, the mesoscale and submesoscale circulations along the continental slope in the northern Gulf of Mexico at depths greater than 1000m were examined using a regional model run at two horizontal grid resolutions.
TL;DR: The impact of topographic internal lee wave drag (wave drag hereafter) on several aspects of the lowfrequency circulation in a high-resolution global ocean model forced by winds and air-sea buoyancy fluxes is examined in this paper.
TL;DR: In this paper, a simplified approach to include benthic processes in 3D ocean models, which includes a parameterization of the different pathways for organic matter mineralization and allows for bottom currents and waves, is described.
TL;DR: In this paper, a mesoscale eddy was modeled with Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) and two filters were applied to remove the kinetic energy over the sub-mesoscales.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of imposing different river runoff forcing and tidal forcing to the dense water formation (DWF) rates and dynamics in a semi-enclosed sea were investigated. But the authors focused on the effects on the DWF in the shallow northern Adriatic Sea during a prolonged cold bora wind outbreak event.
TL;DR: In this article, an augmented state ensemble Kalman filter (ASEnKF) was used to improve the accuracy of M2 barotropic tides embedded in a 1/12.5° three-dimensional ocean general circulation model.
TL;DR: In this paper, a non-hydrostatic σ-coordinate RANS model NHWAVE was used for wave-breaking prediction in planar and barred beaches and steepness-limited unsteady breaking focused wave packets.