Dynamics of simulated Atlantic upwelling annual cycle in CMIP5 models
Abstract
As one of the prominent climatic component of tropical climate system, the annual cycle of the equatorial Atlantic cold tongue region has been a subject of significant research. In this work, we examine the fidelity of the key part of the annual cycles, namely, the upwelling annual cycles, from the simulations of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Utilizing the simple framework we have recently developed based on the Zebiak–Cane (ZC) ocean model, we first tested the validity of the simple framework of upwelling as a combination of the local wind–driven Ekman upwelling and nonlocal wind–driven wave upwelling. It is demonstrated that the theoretically reconstructed upwelling annual cycles to large extent are in good agreement with the simulations in these coupled climatic models. Comparing with observations, we show that the semiannual component of the upwelling is systematically too strong. This significant bias is attributable to the dynamic amplification to the wind–driven wave upwelling originated from a less significant bias in the semiannual harmonic component in the central equatorial wind field. The latter is dynamically amplified in the wind–driven wave upwelling owing to its relatively fast time scale. Furthermore, the realistic simulations of equatorial annual cycles may sensitively dependmore »
- Authors:
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- National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
- Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1474276
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1377940
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0005110; 105-2119-M-003-003; 104-2611-M-003-002-MY3
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9275
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Atlantic; upwelling; CMIP5
Citation Formats
Wang, Li -Chiao, Jin, Fei -Fei, and Wu, Chau -Ron. Dynamics of simulated Atlantic upwelling annual cycle in CMIP5 models. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017JC012781.
Wang, Li -Chiao, Jin, Fei -Fei, & Wu, Chau -Ron. Dynamics of simulated Atlantic upwelling annual cycle in CMIP5 models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC012781
Wang, Li -Chiao, Jin, Fei -Fei, and Wu, Chau -Ron. Tue .
"Dynamics of simulated Atlantic upwelling annual cycle in CMIP5 models". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC012781. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1474276.
@article{osti_1474276,
title = {Dynamics of simulated Atlantic upwelling annual cycle in CMIP5 models},
author = {Wang, Li -Chiao and Jin, Fei -Fei and Wu, Chau -Ron},
abstractNote = {As one of the prominent climatic component of tropical climate system, the annual cycle of the equatorial Atlantic cold tongue region has been a subject of significant research. In this work, we examine the fidelity of the key part of the annual cycles, namely, the upwelling annual cycles, from the simulations of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Utilizing the simple framework we have recently developed based on the Zebiak–Cane (ZC) ocean model, we first tested the validity of the simple framework of upwelling as a combination of the local wind–driven Ekman upwelling and nonlocal wind–driven wave upwelling. It is demonstrated that the theoretically reconstructed upwelling annual cycles to large extent are in good agreement with the simulations in these coupled climatic models. Comparing with observations, we show that the semiannual component of the upwelling is systematically too strong. This significant bias is attributable to the dynamic amplification to the wind–driven wave upwelling originated from a less significant bias in the semiannual harmonic component in the central equatorial wind field. The latter is dynamically amplified in the wind–driven wave upwelling owing to its relatively fast time scale. Furthermore, the realistic simulations of equatorial annual cycles may sensitively depend on good simulations of the semiannual harmonic components in equatorial wind fields.},
doi = {10.1002/2017JC012781},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans},
number = 7,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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