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Using a resolution function to regulate parameterizations of oceanic mesoscale eddy effects
Robert Hallberg,Robert Hallberg +1 more
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In this article, the first baroclinic deformation radius to the horizontal grid spacing indicates where an ocean model could explicitly simulate eddy effects; a function of this ratio can be used to specify where eddy effect are parameterized and where they are explicitly modeled.About:
This article is published in Ocean Modelling.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 302 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eddy diffusion & Eddy.read more
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Description of the resolution hierarchy of the global coupled HadGEM3-GC3.1 model as used in CMIP6 HighResMIP experiments
Malcolm J. Roberts,A. Baker,Ed Blockley,Daley Calvert,Andrew C. Coward,Helene T. Hewitt,Laura Jackson,Till Kuhlbrodt,Pierre Mathiot,Christopher D. Roberts,Reinhard Schiemann,Jon Seddon,Benoit Vanniere,Pier Luigi Vidale +13 more
TL;DR: The Coupled Model Evaluation Project phase 6 (CMIP6) HighResMIP is a new experimental design for globalclimate model simulations that aims to assess the impact of model horizontal resolution on climate simulation fidelity as discussed by the authors.
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Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models
B. Fox-Kemper,Alistair Adcroft,Alistair Adcroft,Claus W. Böning,Eric P. Chassignet,Enrique N. Curchitser,Gokhan Danabasoglu,Carsten Eden,Matthew H. England,Rüdiger Gerdes,Rüdiger Gerdes,Richard J. Greatbatch,Stephen M. Griffies,Stephen M. Griffies,Robert Hallberg,Robert Hallberg,Emmanuel Hanert,Patrick Heimbach,Helene T. Hewitt,Christopher N. Hill,Yoshiki Komuro,Sonya Legg,Sonya Legg,Julien Le Sommer,Simona Masina,Simon J. Marsland,Simon J. Marsland,Simon J. Marsland,Stephen G. Penny,Stephen G. Penny,Fangli Qiao,Todd D. Ringler,Anne-Marie Tréguier,Hiroyuki Tsujino,Petteri Uotila,Stephen Yeager +35 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al. (2010), and summarize new developments in ocean modeling, including: how new and existing observations can be used, what modeling challenges remain, and how simulations can also be used to support observations.
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Southern Ocean eddy phenomenology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite observations of sea level anomalies and sea surface temperature (SST) as well as in situ temperature and salinity measurements from profiling floats to identify over a million mesoscale eddy instances and were able to track about 105 of them over 1 month or more.
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Impact of Horizontal Resolution (1/12° to 1/50°) on Gulf Stream Separation, Penetration, and Variability
Eric P. Chassignet,Xiaobiao Xu +1 more
TL;DR: The impact of horizontal resolution (1/12° to 1/50°; 6 to 1.5 km at midlatitudes) on Gulf Stream separation, penetration, and variability is quantified in a series of identical North Atlantic experiments as mentioned in this paper.
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The Benefits of Global High Resolution for Climate Simulation: Process Understanding and the Enabling of Stakeholder Decisions at the Regional Scale
Malcolm J. Roberts,Pier Luigi Vidale,Cath Senior,Helene T. Hewitt,C. Bates,Ségolène Berthou,Ping Chang,Hannah M. Christensen,Sergey Danilov,Marie-Estelle Demory,Stephen M. Griffies,Reindert J. Haarsma,Thomas Jung,Gill Martin,Shoshiro Minobe,Todd D. Ringler,Masaki Satoh,Reinhard Schiemann,Enrico Scoccimarro,Graeme L. Stephens,Michael Wehner +20 more
TL;DR: This paper argues that global models having horizontal resolutions considerably enhanced from those typically used in previous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) exercises now have the modeling capability to address these requirements.
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