Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Apr 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3807604h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 7, CiteID L07604
Computer Science
Performance
Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean And Mixed Layer Processes, Oceanography: General: Diurnal, Seasonal, And Annual Cycles (0438), Oceanography: General: Numerical Modeling (0545, 0560, 1952)
Scientific paper
Existing laboratory studies suggest that surface wave breaking may exert a significant impact on the formation and evolution of oceanic surface boundary layer, which plays an important role in the ocean-atmosphere coupled system. However, present climate models either neglect the effects of wave breaking or treat them implicitly through some crude parameterization. Here we use a one-dimensional ocean model (General Ocean Turbulence Model, GOTM) to investigate the effects of wave breaking on the oceanic boundary layer on diurnal to seasonal time scales. First a set of idealized experiments are carried out to demonstrate the basic physics and the necessity to include wave breaking. Then the model is applied to simulating observations at the northern North Sea and the Ocean Weather Station Papa, which shows that properly accounting for wave breaking effects can improve model performance and help it to successfully capture the observed upper ocean variability.
Chen Dake
He Hailun
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