Deep Winter Mixed Layers in the Southern Ocean – Impact of Ocean Resolution on Model Bias and Role of the Flow Field and Air-Sea Buoyancy Loss

Justin Small1, Alice K DuVivier1, Daniel B Whitt2, Matthew C Long3, Ian Grooms4 and William Large3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES