Ocean circulation kinetic energy: Reservoirs, sources, and sinks

R Ferrari, C Wunsch - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The ocean circulation is a cause and consequence of fluid scale interactions ranging from
millimeters to more than 10,000 km. Although the wind field produces a large energy input to …

Ocean data assimilation in support of climate applications: Status and perspectives

D Stammer, M Balmaseda, P Heimbach… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Ocean data assimilation brings together observations with known dynamics encapsulated in
a circulation model to describe the time-varying ocean circulation. Its applications are …

ECCO version 4: An integrated framework for non-linear inverse modeling and global ocean state estimation

G Forget, JM Campin, P Heimbach… - Geoscientific Model …, 2015 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper presents the ECCO v4 non-linear inverse modeling framework and its baseline
solution for the evolving ocean state over the period 1992–2011. Both components are …

The flexible global ocean‐atmosphere‐land system model grid‐point version 3 (FGOALS‐g3): Description and evaluation

L Li, Y Yu, Y Tang, P Lin, J Xie, M Song… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces the Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model: Grid‐
Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3) and evaluates its basic performance based on some of its …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)

H Tsujino, LS Urakawa, SM Griffies… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
We present a new framework for global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on phase 2
of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP-2), making use of the surface dataset …

[HTML][HTML] The CCSM4 ocean component

G Danabasoglu, SC Bates, BP Briegleb… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
The ocean component of the Community Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4) is
described, and its solutions from the twentieth-century (20C) simulations are documented in …

North Atlantic simulations in coordinated ocean-ice reference experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: mean states

G Danabasoglu, SG Yeager, D Bailey, E Behrens… - Ocean Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
Simulation characteristics from eighteen global ocean–sea-ice coupled models are
presented with a focus on the mean Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic Ocean and sea ice response to ozone depletion: A two-time-scale problem

D Ferreira, J Marshall, CM Bitz, S Solomon… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response of the Southern Ocean to a repeating seasonal cycle of ozone loss is studied
in two coupled climate models and is found to comprise both fast and slow processes. The …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of horizontal resolution on global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project …

EP Chassignet, SG Yeager… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper presents global comparisons of fundamental global climate variables from a suite
of four pairs of matched low-and high-resolution ocean and sea-ice simulations that are …

Practical global oceanic state estimation

C Wunsch, P Heimbach - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2007 - Elsevier
The problem of oceanographic state estimation, by means of an ocean general circulation
model (GCM) and a multitude of observations, is described and contrasted with the …