Using chemical tracers to assess ocean models

MH England, E Maier‐Reimer - Reviews of Geophysics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical tracers can be used to assess the simulated circulation in ocean models. Tracers
that have been used in this context include tritium, chlorofluorocarbons, natural and bomb …

The Max-Planck-Institute global ocean/sea ice model with orthogonal curvilinear coordinates

SJ Marsland, H Haak, JH Jungclaus, M Latif, F Röske - Ocean modelling, 2003 - Elsevier
The Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation model has undergone significant development in
recent years. Most notable is the treatment of horizontal discretisation which has undergone …

The Gent–McWilliams parameterization: 20/20 hindsight

PR Gent - Ocean Modelling, 2011 - Elsevier
It has now been 20years since the Gent and McWilliams paper on “Isopycnal Mixing in
Ocean Circulation Models” was published in January 1990 issue of the Journal of Physical …

[HTML][HTML] The gent–mcwilliams skew flux

SM Griffies - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper formulates tracer stirring arising from the Gent–McWilliams (GM) eddy-induced
transport in terms of a skew-diffusive flux. A skew-diffusive tracer flux is directed normal to …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity to surface forcing and boundary layer mixing in a global ocean model: Annual-mean climatology

WG Large, G Danabasoglu, SC Doney… - Journal of Physical …, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
Sensitivity to Surface Forcing and Boundary Layer Mixing in a Global Ocean Model: Annual-Mean
Climatology in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 27 Issue 11 (1997) Jump to …

Developments in ocean climate modelling

SM Griffies, C Böning, FO Bryan, EP Chassignet… - Ocean Modelling, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper presents some research developments in primitive equation ocean models which
could impact the ocean component of realistic global coupled climate models aimed at large …

The Finite Element Sea Ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) v. 1.4: formulation of an ocean general circulation model

Q Wang, S Danilov, D Sidorenko… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Finite Element Sea Ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) is the first global ocean general
circulation model based on unstructured-mesh methods that has been developed for the …

[HTML][HTML] Transient climate change in the CSIRO coupled model with dynamic sea ice

HB Gordon, SP O'Farrell - Monthly Weather Review, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
Transient Climate Change in the CSIRO Coupled Model with Dynamic Sea Ice in: Monthly
Weather Review Volume 125 Issue 5 (1997) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Climate change feedback on the future oceanic CO2 uptake

RJ Matebr, AC Hirst - Tellus B, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Output from a coupled atmosphere–ocean model forced by the IS92a greenhouse gas
scenario was used to investigate the feedback between climate change and the oceanic …

Evaluation of ocean model ventilation with CFC-11: comparison of 13 global ocean models

JC Dutay, JL Bullister, SC Doney, JC Orr, R Najjar… - Ocean Modelling, 2002 - Elsevier
We compared the 13 models participating in the Ocean Carbon Model Intercomparison
Project (OCMIP) with regards to their skill in matching observed distributions of CFC-11. This …