Circulation characteristics in three eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic

Willebrand, Jürgen; Barnier, Bernard; Böning, Claus; Dieterich, Christian; Killworth, Peter D.; Le Provost, Christian; Jia, Yanli; Molines, Jean-Marc; New, Adrian L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3159-8872. 2001 Circulation characteristics in three eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 48 (2/3). 123-161. 10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00003-9

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Abstract/Summary

A systematic intercomparison of three realistic eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic circulation has been performed. The models use different concepts for the discretization of the vertical coordinate, namely geopotential levels, isopycnal layers, terrain-following (sigma) coordinates, respectively. Although these models were integrated under nearly identical conditions, the resulting large-scale model circulations show substantial differences. The results demonstrate that the large-scale thermohaline circulation is very sensitive to the model representation of certain localised processes, in particular to the amount and water mass properties of the overflow across the Greenland-Scotland region, to the amount of mixing within a few hundred kilometers south of the sills, and to several other processes at small or sub-grid scales. The different behaviour of the three models can to a large extent be explained as a consequence of the different model representation of these processes.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00003-9
ISSN:	0079-6611
Date made live:	26 Jan 2004 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/100271

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