An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is a new coupled Earth system model sponsored by the U.S Department of Energy. Here we present E3SM global simulations using active ocean and sea ice that are driven by the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments II (CORE-II) interannual atmospheric...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1560397 2023-07-30T03:58:15+02:00 An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing Petersen, Mark R. Asay‐Davis, Xylar S. Berres, Anne S. Chen, Qingshan Feige, Nils Hoffman, Matthew J. Jacobsen, Douglas W. Jones, Philip W. Maltrud, Mathew E. Price, Stephen F. Ringler, Todd D. Streletz, Gregory J. Turner, Adrian K. Van Roekel, Luke P. Veneziani, Milena Wolfe, Jonathan D. Wolfram, Phillip J. Woodring, Jonathan L. 2023-02-23 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1560397 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1560397 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001373 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1560397 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1560397 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001373 doi:10.1029/2018MS001373 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 2023 ftosti https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001373 2023-07-11T09:36:36Z The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is a new coupled Earth system model sponsored by the U.S Department of Energy. Here we present E3SM global simulations using active ocean and sea ice that are driven by the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments II (CORE-II) interannual atmospheric forcing data set. The E3SM ocean and sea ice components are MPAS-Ocean and MPAS-Seaice, which use the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) framework and run on unstructured horizontal meshes. For this study, grid cells vary from 30 to 60 km for the low-resolution mesh and 6 to 18 km at high resolution. The vertical grid is a structured z-star coordinate and uses 60 and 80 layers for low and high resolution, respectively. The lower-resolution simulation was run for five CORE cycles (310 years) with little drift in sea surface temperature (SST) or heat content. The meridional heat transport (MHT) is within observational range, while the meridional overturning circulation at 26.5°N is low compared to observations. The largest temperature biases occur in the Labrador Sea and western boundary currents (WBCs), and the mixed layer is deeper than observations at northern high latitudes in the winter months. In the Antarctic, maximum mixed layer depths (MLD) compare well with observations, but the spatial MLD pattern is shifted relative to observations. Sea ice extent, volume, and concentration agree well with observations. At high resolution, the sea surface height compares well with satellite observations in mean and variability. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic Labrador Sea Sea ice SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Antarctic The Antarctic Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11 5 1438 1458 |
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The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is a new coupled Earth system model sponsored by the U.S Department of Energy. Here we present E3SM global simulations using active ocean and sea ice that are driven by the Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments II (CORE-II) interannual atmospheric forcing data set. The E3SM ocean and sea ice components are MPAS-Ocean and MPAS-Seaice, which use the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) framework and run on unstructured horizontal meshes. For this study, grid cells vary from 30 to 60 km for the low-resolution mesh and 6 to 18 km at high resolution. The vertical grid is a structured z-star coordinate and uses 60 and 80 layers for low and high resolution, respectively. The lower-resolution simulation was run for five CORE cycles (310 years) with little drift in sea surface temperature (SST) or heat content. The meridional heat transport (MHT) is within observational range, while the meridional overturning circulation at 26.5°N is low compared to observations. The largest temperature biases occur in the Labrador Sea and western boundary currents (WBCs), and the mixed layer is deeper than observations at northern high latitudes in the winter months. In the Antarctic, maximum mixed layer depths (MLD) compare well with observations, but the spatial MLD pattern is shifted relative to observations. Sea ice extent, volume, and concentration agree well with observations. At high resolution, the sea surface height compares well with satellite observations in mean and variability. |
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Petersen, Mark R. Asay‐Davis, Xylar S. Berres, Anne S. Chen, Qingshan Feige, Nils Hoffman, Matthew J. Jacobsen, Douglas W. Jones, Philip W. Maltrud, Mathew E. Price, Stephen F. Ringler, Todd D. Streletz, Gregory J. Turner, Adrian K. Van Roekel, Luke P. Veneziani, Milena Wolfe, Jonathan D. Wolfram, Phillip J. Woodring, Jonathan L. |
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Petersen, Mark R. Asay‐Davis, Xylar S. Berres, Anne S. Chen, Qingshan Feige, Nils Hoffman, Matthew J. Jacobsen, Douglas W. Jones, Philip W. Maltrud, Mathew E. Price, Stephen F. Ringler, Todd D. Streletz, Gregory J. Turner, Adrian K. Van Roekel, Luke P. Veneziani, Milena Wolfe, Jonathan D. Wolfram, Phillip J. Woodring, Jonathan L. |
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An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing |
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An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing |
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An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing |
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An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing |
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An Evaluation of the Ocean and Sea Ice Climate of E3SM Using MPAS and Interannual CORE-II Forcing |
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evaluation of the ocean and sea ice climate of e3sm using mpas and interannual core-ii forcing |
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