Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

Resolving and parameterising the ocean mesoscale in earth system models

HT Hewitt, M Roberts, P Mathiot, A Biastoch… - Current Climate Change …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Assessment of the impact of ocean resolution in Earth System
models on the mean state, variability, and future projections and discussion of prospects for …

JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do)

H Tsujino, S Urakawa, H Nakano, RJ Small, WM Kim… - Ocean Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a new surface-atmospheric dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models based on
Japanese 55-year atmospheric reanalysis (JRA-55), referred to here as JRA55-do. The …

The GFDL global ocean and sea ice model OM4. 0: Model description and simulation features

A Adcroft, W Anderson, V Balaji… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We document the configuration and emergent simulation features from the Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) OM4. 0 ocean/sea ice model. OM4 serves as the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)

H Tsujino, LS Urakawa, SM Griffies… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
We present a new framework for global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on phase 2
of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP-2), making use of the surface dataset …

ACCESS-OM2 v1. 0: a global ocean–sea ice model at three resolutions

AE Kiss, AMC Hogg, N Hannah… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
We introduce ACCESS-OM2, a new version of the ocean–sea ice model of the Australian
Community Climate and Earth System Simulator. ACCESS-OM2 is driven by a prescribed …

OMIP contribution to CMIP6: Experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

SM Griffies, G Danabasoglu, PJ Durack… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science …

North Atlantic simulations in coordinated ocean-ice reference experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: mean states

G Danabasoglu, SG Yeager, D Bailey, E Behrens… - Ocean Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
Simulation characteristics from eighteen global ocean–sea-ice coupled models are
presented with a focus on the mean Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and …

Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the upper branch of the Southern Ocean overturning

RP Abernathey, I Cerovecki, PR Holland… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Ocean overturning circulation requires a continuous thermodynamic transformation of the
buoyancy of seawater. The steeply sloping isopycnals of the Southern Ocean provide a …

Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 …

EP Chassignet, SG Yeager… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper presents global comparisons of fundamental global climate variables from a suite
of four pairs of matched low-and high-resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations that are …