An assessment of global and regional sea level in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations: a synopsis

• Main Authors: Griffies, S. M., Yin, J., Bates, S., Behrens, E., Bentsen, M., Bi, D., Biastoch, A., Böning, C., Bozec, A., Cassou, C., Chassignet, E., Danabasoglu, G., Danilov, S., Domingues, C., Drange, H., Durack, P., Farneti, R., Fernandez, E., Goddard, P., Greatbatch, R., Ilicak, M., Lu, J., Marsland, S., Mishra, A., Lorbacher, K., Nurser, G., Salas y Mélia, D., Palter, J., Samuels, B., Schröter, J., Schwarzkopf, F., Sidorenko, D., Treguier, A.-M., Tseng, Y., Tsujino, H., Uotila, P., Valcke, S., Voldoire, A., Wang, Q., Winton, M., Zhang, X.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34532/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/34532/1/Exchanges62.pdf; http://www.clivar.org/sites/default/files/Exchanges/Exchanges62.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42759; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.42759.d001

There is a growing number of observation-based measures of sea level related patterns with the advent of the Argo floats (since the early 2000s) and satellite altimeters (since 1993). These measures provide a valuable means to evaluate aspects of global model simulations, such as the global ocean-sea ice simulations run as part of the interannual Coordinated Ocean- ice Reference Experiments Griffies et al. (2009), Danabasoglu et al. (2013). In addition, these CORE-II simulations provide a means for evaluating the likely mechanisms causing sea level variations, particularly when models with different skill are compared against each other and observations. We have conducted an assessment of CORE-II simulations from 13 model configurations Griffies et al. (2013), with a focus on their ability to capture observed trends in ocean heat content as well as the corresponding dynamic sea level over the period 1993- 2007. Here, we provide a synopsis of the assessment.