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 …

Recent contributions of theory to our understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

HL Johnson, P Cessi, DP Marshall… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Revolutionary observational arrays, together with a new generation of ocean and climate
models, have provided new and intriguing insights into the Atlantic Meridional Overturning …

Stratification constrains future heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean between 30 S and 55 S

T Bourgeois, N Goris, J Schwinger… - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean between 30° S and 55° S is a major sink of excess heat and
anthropogenic carbon, but model projections of these sinks remain highly uncertain …

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 impact of fine-scale currents on biogeochemical cycles in a changing ocean

M Lévy, D Couespel, C Haëck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fine-scale currents, O (1–100 km, days–months), are actively involved in the transport and
transformation of biogeochemical tracers in the ocean. However, their overall impact on …

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 …

Vertical structure and energetic constraints for a backscatter parameterization of ocean mesoscale eddies

E Yankovsky, S Bachman, KS Smith… - Journal of Advances in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale eddies modulate the stratification, mixing, tracer transport, and dissipation
pathways of oceanic flows over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. The parameterization …

Stochastic data‐driven parameterization of unresolved eddy effects in a baroclinic quasi‐geostrophic model

L Li, B Deremble, N Lahaye… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a stochastic representation based on a physical transport principle is proposed
to account for mesoscale eddy effects on the large‐scale oceanic circulation. This stochastic …

Diagnosing scale-dependent energy cycles in a high-resolution isopycnal ocean model

N Loose, S Bachman, I Grooms… - Journal of Physical …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Energy exchanges between large-scale ocean currents and mesoscale eddies play an
important role in setting the large-scale ocean circulation but are not fully captured in …