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| Titel |
Effect of horizontal grid resolution on simulations of the subtropical mode water in the North Pacific |
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Ho Jin Lee, Sang Yeop Kim, Kyung Eun Lee |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250122901
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-2043.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| We investigate how the Subtopical Mode Water (STMW) can be simulated differently in the North Pacific using a global Ocean General Circulation Model (OGCM) with non-eddying and eddy permitting resolution. The OGCM used in this study is the MOM version 4.1 and has a total of 50 levels along the vertical direction with enhanced resolution near the surface. The CORE version 2 (normal year forcing) data derived from the air-sea flux climatology averaged over 60 years (1948−2007) are used to calculate heat, salt and momentum fluxes with a bulk formula at the sea surface. The sea surface salinity is restored to the climatological monthly mean surface salinity of the Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology on a 60-day timescale, to make up the fresh water flux at the sea surface. Two models that have horizontal resolutions of 1° and 1/4 °, respectively, are integrated during 50 years. The inter-annual variation of the STMW volume was well reproduced with the eddy-permitting grid resolution although the model was forced by a climatological atmospheric forcing. The annual formation and erosion volume of STMW varies by 7% and 9% of the mean volume, respectively. |
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