Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments - Phase II

• Main Authors: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/U.S. Department Of Commerce, Meteorological Research Institute/Japan Meteorological Agency/Japan, Institute Of Marine Research/Bergen/Norway, Polar, Alfred Wegener Institute For, National Oceanography Centre/University Of Southampton, Center For Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies/Florida State University, Oceanography Section/Climate And Global Dynamics Division/National Center For Atmospheric Research/University Corporation For Atmospheric Research, Centre National De Recherches Meteorologiques/France
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive 2016
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALT TRANSPORT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > FRESH WATER FLUX; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > OCEAN TRACERS; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY > SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > POTENTIAL DENSITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SNOW MELT; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID PRECIPITATION > RAIN; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6wm1c78; https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds262.0/

Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) were proposed by the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) as a venue for comparing global ocean-sea ice models run under a common prescribed atmospheric state, with boundary fluxes computed via the same bulk formulae. CORE simulations complement the coupled climate and earth system models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Efforts across a broad community of modeling groups have produced CORE Phase 2 hindcast simulations (CORE-II) using 62 years (1948-2009) of interannual forcing. The CORE-II simulations provide a framework to evaluate ocean model performance, to study mechanisms of ocean phenomena and their variability from seasonal to decadal timescales, to identify forced variability changes, and to develop mechanistic descriptions of observed climate variability and change.