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 …

Will high-resolution global ocean models benefit coupled predictions on short-range to climate timescales?

HT Hewitt, MJ Bell, EP Chassignet, A Czaja, D Ferreira… - Ocean Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
As the importance of the ocean in the weather and climate system is increasingly
recognised, operational systems are now moving towards coupled prediction not only for …

Toward an energetically consistent, resolution aware parameterization of ocean mesoscale eddies

MF Jansen, A Adcroft, S Khani… - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A subgrid‐scale eddy parameterization is developed, which makes use of an explicit eddy
kinetic energy budget and can be applied at both “non‐eddying” and “eddy‐permitting” …

The GM+ E closure: A framework for coupling backscatter with the Gent and McWilliams parameterization

SD Bachman - Ocean Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gent and McWilliams (1990, GM) tracer transport scheme has long been a
cornerstone of global-scale ocean modeling, and is well-known for its ability to mimic the …

Scalings for eddy buoyancy fluxes across prograde shelf/slope fronts

H Wei, Y Wang, AL Stewart… - Journal of Advances in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Depth‐averaged eddy buoyancy diffusivities across continental shelves and slopes are
investigated using a suite of eddy‐resolving, process‐oriented simulations of prograde …

Oceanic primary production decline halved in eddy-resolving simulations of global warming

D Couespel, M Lévy, L Bopp - Biogeosciences, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
The decline in ocean primary production is one of the most alarming consequences of
anthropogenic climate change. This decline could indeed lead to a decrease in marine …

A diagnosis of anisotropic eddy diffusion from a high‐resolution global ocean model

SD Bachman, B Fox‐Kemper… - Journal of Advances in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic mesoscale eddies are known to diffuse and stir tracers, and the development of
skillful eddy closures is aided considerably by the accurate diagnosis of these processes …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of a geometrically informed and energetically constrained mesoscale eddy parameterization in an ocean circulation model

J Mak, JR Maddison, DP Marshall… - Journal of Physical …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Implementation of a Geometrically Informed and Energetically Constrained Mesoscale Eddy
Parameterization in an Ocean Circulation Model in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume …

Parameterizing eddy buoyancy fluxes across prograde shelf/slope fronts using a slope-aware GEOMETRIC closure

H Wei, Y Wang, J Mak - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate parameterizations of eddy fluxes across prograde, buoyant shelf and slope
currents are crucial to faithful predictions of the heat transfer and water mass transformations …

Uncertainty and scale interactions in ocean ensembles: From seasonal forecasts to multidecadal climate predictions

L Zanna, JM Brankart, M Huber… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean plays an important role in the climate system on time‐scales of weeks to
centuries. Despite improvements in ocean models, dynamical processes involving …