Increasing vertical mixing to reduce Southern Ocean deep convection in NEMO3.4

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Heuzé, C., Ridley, J. K., Calvert, D., Stevens, D. P., Heywood, K. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; Weddell; Riiser-Larsen; Langmuir; Riiser-Larsen Sea; Antarc*; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54694/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/54694/2/HRCSH15.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3119-2015

Most CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) models unrealistically form Antarctic Bottom Water by open ocean deep convection in the Weddell and Ross seas. To identify the mechanisms triggering Southern Ocean deep convection in models, we perform sensitivity experiments on the ocean mo...