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| Hewitt, Helene T.; Roberts, Malcolm; Mathiot, Pierre; Biastoch, Arne; Blockley, Ed; Chassignet, Eric P.; Fox-kemper, Baylor; Hyder, Pat; Marshall, David P.; Popova, Ekaterina; Treguier, Anne-marie; Zanna, Laure; Yool, Andrew; Yu, Yongqiang; Beadling, Rebecca; Bell, Mike; Kuhlbrodt, Till; Arsouze, Thomas; Bellucci, Alessio; Castruccio, Fred; Gan, Bolan; Putrasahan, Dian; Roberts, Christopher D.; Van Roekel, Luke; Zhang, Qiuying. |
| 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 improved parameterisations to represent the ocean mesoscale. Recent Findings The majority of centres participating in CMIP6 employ ocean components with resolutions of about 1 degree in their full Earth System models (eddy-parameterising models). In contrast, there are also models submitted to CMIP6 (both DECK and HighResMIP) that employ ocean components of approximately 1/4 degree and 1/10 degree (eddy-present and eddy-rich models). Evidence to date suggests that whether the ocean mesoscale is explicitly represented or parameterised affects not only the mean state of the ocean but also... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean models; Resolution; Parameterisation; Mesoscale; Submesoscale. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00654/76603/77753.pdf |
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| Regan, Heather; Lique, Camille; Talandier, Claude; Meneghello, Gianluca. |
| The Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean has spun up over the past two decades in response to changes of the wind forcing and sea ice conditions, accumulating a significant amount of freshwater. Here a simulation performed with a high-resolution, eddy resolving model is analyzed in order to provide a detailed description of the total and eddy kinetic energy, and their response to this spin up of the gyre. On average, and in contrast to the typical open ocean conditions, the levels of mean and eddy kinetic energy are of the same order of magnitude, and the eddy kinetic energy is only intensified along the boundary and in the subsurface. In response to the strong anomalous atmospheric conditions in 2007, the gyre spins up and the mean kinetic energy almost... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean; Arctic; Eddies; Ocean dynamics; Ocean models. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00598/71015/69288.pdf |
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| Qiu, Bo; Chen, Shuiming; Klein, Patrice; Sasaki, Hideharu; Sasai, Yoshikazu. |
| Located at the center of the western North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the Subtropical Countercurrent (STCC) is not only abundant in mesoscale eddies, but also exhibits prominent submesoscale eddy features. Output from a 1/30 degrees high-resolution OGCM simulation and a gridded satellite altimetry product are analyzed to contrast the seasonal STCC variability in the mesoscale versus submesoscale ranges. Resolving the eddy scales of >150 km, the altimetry product reveals that the STCC eddy kinetic energy and rms vorticity have a seasonal maximum in May and April, respectively, a weak positive vorticity skewness without seasonal dependence, and an inverse (forward) kinetic energy cascade for wavelengths larger (shorter) than 250 km. In contrast, the... |
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Palavras-chave: Circulation/ Dynamics; Eddies; Instability; Mesoscale processes; Observational techniques and algorithms; Altimetry; Models and modeling; Ocean models; Variability; Seasonal variability. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00245/35588/34142.pdf |
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| Mcwilliams, James C.; Gula, Jonathan; Molemaker, Maarten Jeroen. |
| Eastward zonal jets are common in the ocean and atmosphere, for example, the Gulf Stream and jet stream. They are characterized by atypically strong horizontal velocity, baroclinic vertical structure with an upward flow intensification, large change in the density stratification meridionally across the jet, large-scale meanders around a central latitude, narrow troughs and broad crests, and a sharp and vertically sloping northern (poleward) "wall" defined by horizontal maxima in the lateral gradients of both velocity and density. Measurements and realistic oceanic simulations show these features in the Gulf Stream downstream from its western boundary separation point. A diagnostic theory based on the conservative balance equations is developed to calculate... |
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Palavras-chave: Ageostrophic circulations; Frontogenesis/frontolysis; Ocean models. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00486/59786/62925.pdf |
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