A generic approach to explicit simulation of uncertainty in the NEMO ocean model

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Brankart, Jean-Michel, Candille, Guillem, Garnier, F., Calone, C., Melet, A., Bouttier, Pierre-Antoine, Brasseur, Pierre, Verron, J.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program Princeton (AOS Program), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Princeton University
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01204726; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01204726/document; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01204726/file/GEOSCIENTIFIC%20MODEL%20DEVELOPMENT%20-%20A%20generic%20approach%20to%20explicit%20simulation%20of%20uncertainty%20in%20the%20NEMO%20ocean%20model.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1285-2015

International audience In this paper, a generic implementation approach is presented, with the aim of transforming a deterministic ocean model (like NEMO) into a probabilistic model. With this approach, several kinds of stochastic parameterizations are implemented to simulate the non-deterministic effect of unresolved processes, unresolved scales and unresolved diversity. The method is illustrated with three applications, showing that uncertainties can produce a major effect in the circulation model, in the ecosystem model, and in the sea ice model. These examples show that uncertainties can produce an important effect in the simulations, strongly modifying the dynamical behaviour of these three components of ocean systems.