North Pacific Mesoscale Coupled Air-Ocean Simulations Compared with Observations
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
- Desert Research Inst. (DRI), Reno, NV (United States). Division of Atmospheric Sciences
The overall objective of this study was to improve the representation of regional ocean circulation in the North Pacific by using high resolution atmospheric forcing that accurately represents mesoscale processes in ocean-atmosphere regional (North Pacific) model configuration. The goal was to assess the importance of accurate representation of mesoscale processes in the atmosphere and the ocean on large scale circulation. This is an important question, as mesoscale processes in the atmosphere which are resolved by the high resolution mesoscale atmospheric models such as Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF), are absent in commonly used atmospheric forcing such as CORE forcing, employed in e.g. the Community Climate System Model (CCSM).
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Contributing Organization:
- Desert Research Inst. (DRI), Reno, NV (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0001933
- OSTI ID:
- 1163876
- Report Number(s):
- DE-SC0001933 (416441/25246A)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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