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Interannual variability of sea surface temperatures in ocean general circulation model

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Title Interannual variability of sea surface temperatures in ocean general circulation model
 
Creator Chakraborty, A
Upadyayaya, H C
Sharma, O P
 
Description 96-105
The
evolution of annual cycle of sea surface temperature (SST) as simulated by a
stretched coordinate ocean general circulation model is examined here with two
surface heat flux formulations. The first heat flux scheme is the standard
Haney formulation and the other scheme is just a modification of the former
where a term using gaussian distribution of apparent atmospheric temperature
has been added. The interannual behavior of simulated SST anomalies show their
quite realistic evolution for both the formulations in tropical ocean. The
simulations were performed by forcing the ocean model with European Centre for
Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) wind stress, ambient temperature,
precipitation and evaporation from Atmospheric Model Inter-comparison Project
(AMIP) archives. Major errors, common to both simulations

reported here, pertains to
systematic colder temperatures than the observed SST in the equatorial ocean in
the western Pacific Ocean. The appearance of
unrealistic tropical cooling trend present during almost all the years of the
simulation period, seems to be a problem needing further refinement in the model physics.
 
Date 2014-01-07T12:16:07Z
2014-01-07T12:16:07Z
2000-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25337
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.29(2) [June 2000]