Assessing ocean-model sensitivity to wind forcing uncertainties

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29r...5b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 18, pp. 5-1, CiteID 1858, DOI 10.1029/2001GL014473

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Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions (0312), Oceanography: General: Ocean Prediction, Oceanography: Physical: Fine Structure And Microstructure

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In this paper, we assess the short-term forecast error of a mesoscale primitive-equation open-ocean model, induced by uncertainties in wind forcing. Statistics calculated from an ensemble of ocean states show that temperature forecast error is strongest at the top of the ensemble-mean thermocline, as a consequence of vertical displacement of the mixed-layer base around its ensemble mean. Horizontal pattern of the temperature error in the mixed-layer is mainly explained by horizontal advection and surface heat flux fluctuations. These two mechanisms and entrainment through the mixed-layer bottom are presented as the three processes responsible for thermal forecast error growth in the modeled upper ocean.

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