Feedback of mesoscale ocean currents on atmospheric winds in high-resolution coupled models and implications for the forcing of ocean-only models

• Main Authors: Abel, Rafael, Böning, Claus W., Greatbatch, Richard John, Hewitt, Helene T., Roberts, Malcolm J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications (EGU) 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; Curl; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/48960/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/48960/1/os-2017-24.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2017-24

The repercussions of surface ocean currents for the near-surface wind and the air-sea momentum flux are investigated in two versions of a global climate model with eddying ocean. The focus is on the effect of mesoscale ocean current features at scales of less than 150 km, by considering high-pass fi...