OM52A:
Modeling the Climate System at High Resolution II


Session ID#: 37792

Session Description:
Realistic Earth System Models are the primary means of projecting the Earth’s future climate state. Model development efforts are underway to include novel components and processes, with many efforts holding the potential to play a significant role in reducing model projection uncertainty. These changes include, but are not limited to: land ice and ice shelf models that interact with the ocean; refined representation of ocean mesoscale processes such as boundary currents and transient eddies; weather-scale phenomena in the atmosphere; leads and polynyas in sea ice. We solicit presentations that explore the impacts of such novel components within coupled models, including their impact for baseline and future climate scenarios. The representation of the ocean meridional overturning circulation and deep water formation; air-sea interaction processes such as those related to feedbacks between ocean eddies and atmospheric storm tracks; eddy-mean flow interactions and the transfer of energy across space-time scales; and cryosphere/ocean interactions affecting sea level projections are all of great interest. Comparisons to standard climate model simulations are encouraged, as well as examinations of forced counterpart component model simulations.
Primary Chair:  Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Eric Chassignet, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Moderators:  Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Stephen Matthew Griffies, NOAA/GFDL, NJ, United States and Eric Chassignet, Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Julie McClean, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Impacts of an eddy rich ocean on climate heat uptake, overturning and air-sea coupling (303969)
Malcolm J Roberts1, Helene Hewitt1, Pierre Mathiot2, Daley Calvert1 and Sophia Marie Ashby3, (1)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
The impact of the Gulf Stream on the North Atlantic storm track: deterministic or stochastic? (308272)
Alison Cobb, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Arnaud Czaja, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Balmaseda Magdalena, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom and Frederic Vitart, ECMWF, Reading, UK, United Kingdom
Nesting vs. Unstructured Grids in the Highly Eddying Regime of the Agulhas Current (308329)
Arne Biastoch1, Dmitry Sein2, Jonathan Durgadoo3, Sergey Danilov2 and Qiang Wang2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, Kiel, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
An assessment of the climate as simulated by a high resolution, CORE-II forced, configuration of the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy. (321734)
Luke P Van Roekel1, Phil Jones1, Mathew E Maltrud1, Julie McClean2, Todd Ringler1, Mark R Petersen1, Adrian K Turner1, Jonathan D Wolfe1 and Phillip J. Wolfram Jr1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Vertical Heat and Salt Fluxes due to Resolved and Parameterized Meso-scale Eddies (308399)
Jin-Song von Storch1, Helmuth Haak1, Eileen Hertwig1 and Irina Fast2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)German Climate Computer Center, Germany
The Horizontal Residual Mean: Addressing the Limited Spatial Resolution of Ocean Models (309883)
Trevor J McDougall1, Yuehua Li2, Shane R Keating1, Casimir de Lavergne3 and Madec Gurvan4, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, Australia, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, Australia, (3)UNSW, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, Australia, (4)Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, IPSL, Paris, France
Lagrangian diffusivity and its application to represent lateral eddy transport in models (312658)
Inga Monika Koszalka, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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