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Reaction of the oceanic circulation to increased melt water flux from Greenland - a test case for ocean general circulation models Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Germany Stephen M. Griffies, and William Hurlin Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

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  1. Reaction of the oceanic circulation to increased melt water flux from Greenland - a test case for ocean general circulation models Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Germany Stephen M. Griffies, and William Hurlin Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ „... premise that proposing a set of interesting and feasibleexperiments, and illustrating the behavior of a suite ofmodels run within the CORE framework, can provokediscussionand debate leading to general scientificconvergenceonto a common experimental protocol.“ CORE III protocol, Hobart

  2. Original motivation CORE III protocol, Hobart

  3. How much does the oceanic component contribute to the different sensitivities of the THC in climate models under increasing GHG? => Water hosing experiments in CMIP; we wanted to do similar experiments with ocean-only models CORE III protocol, Hobart

  4. Additional motivation CORE III protocol, Hobart

  5. A serious problem of perturbation experiments in stand alone ocean-sea ice models is their sensitivity to the form of the surface boundary conditions. The feedbacks involving the atmospheric response to changes in oceanic heat transport are especially important. For example, ocean models under mixed boundary conditions can exhibit unrealistic sensitivity with respect to surface fresh water flux anomalies. The high sensitivity is caused by the positive salinity advection feedback. In nature and in fully coupled models this feedback is counterbalanced by the negative temperature advection feedback which is suppressed under mixed boundary conditions. The temperature advection feedback requires a response in atmospheric temperatures to changes in ocean heat transport. CORE III protocol, Hobart

  6. Currently used boundary conditions are sub-optimal: mixed control control EBM control SPLIT restor EBM mixed CORE III protocol, Hobart

  7. This also applies to hindcast simulationsExample: Arctic Liquid fresh water content “The dependence of OGCM sensitivity on the surface boundary conditions is a general problem as it affects all ocean variability experiments to some degree. Ocean modellers need to find a solution to this problem when future variability experiments should be acceptable to the climate community.” CORE III protocol, Hobart

  8. “It seems to be necessary and worthwhile to develop and improve simple atmospheric components to be used in ocean-sea ice experiments with variable or anomalous forcing. The CORE experiments can provide a common experimental frame work to compare and validate such efforts.“ CORE III protocol, Hobart

  9. CORE III protocol CORE III protocol, Hobart

  10. Surface forcing: As in CORE I plus fresh water flux anomaly of 0.1Sv around Greenland: CORE III protocol, Hobart

  11. Duration of experiment • Spin-up with normal year (CORE I) • Determine fresh water flux FR from restoring (average over last 20 years) • Repeat last 100 years with fresh water flux anomaly (and FR) • Recovery phase • Optional • Additional tracers • S1 • Atmosphere: Anomaly EBM? CORE III protocol, Hobart

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