Regional Modeling with MOM6

Katherine Hedstrom, University of Alaska Fairbanks, CFOS, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Robert Hallberg, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Matt Harrison, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States and Enrique N Curchitser, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Abstract:
MOM6 is a global ocean circulation model combining many of the best features from a number of ocean models, including MOM, GOLD, and MITgcm. It is becoming more widely used not only as a component in a global climate model, but it now has the potential to be used as a regional ocean model. We will describe how the open boundary conditions are implemented and evaluate their behavior. They have been developed in parallel with a suite of simple test problems for both barotropic and baroclinic cases. There are a wide array of boundary options which we explore to develop recommendations for realistic applications.
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