Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors

The Southern Ocean is critically important for global climate yet poorly represented by climate models. Here the authors trace sea surface temperature biases in this region to cloud-related errors in atmospheric-model simulated surface heat fluxes and provide a pathway to improve the models.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Patrick Hyder, John M. Edwards, Richard P. Allan, Helene T. Hewitt, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Jonathan M. Gregory, Richard A. Wood, Andrew J. S. Meijers, Jane Mulcahy, Paul Field, Kalli Furtado, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Keith D. Williams, Dan Copsey, Simon A. Josey, Chunlei Liu, Chris D. Roberts, Claudio Sanchez, Jeff Ridley, Livia Thorpe, Steven C. Hardiman, Michael Mayer, David I. Berry, Stephen E. Belcher
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
Subjects:
Science
Q
Southern Ocean
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05634-2
https://doaj.org/article/dea3e227dce643e88658e52d1d64cedf
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Summary:The Southern Ocean is critically important for global climate yet poorly represented by climate models. Here the authors trace sea surface temperature biases in this region to cloud-related errors in atmospheric-model simulated surface heat fluxes and provide a pathway to improve the models.

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