TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of the Prandtl number in the parameterization of vertical mixing in an OGCM of the tropical Pacific
AU - Noh, Yign
AU - Kang, Yune Jeung
AU - Matsuura, Tomonori
AU - Iizuka, Satoshi
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2005/12/16
Y1 - 2005/12/16
N2 - Inclusion of the Prandtl number variation with stratification in a vertical mixing scheme helps to improve the simulation of the tropical Pacific using an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) significantly, by mitigating various persistent problems of the OGCM such as the warm and cold biases in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, the too weak and deep Equatorial Undercurrent and the insufficient zonal slope of the thermocline. It also makes the distributions of temperature and zonal velocity along the equator more realistic. A similar test with a different vertical mixing scheme supports the generality of the results.
AB - Inclusion of the Prandtl number variation with stratification in a vertical mixing scheme helps to improve the simulation of the tropical Pacific using an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) significantly, by mitigating various persistent problems of the OGCM such as the warm and cold biases in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, the too weak and deep Equatorial Undercurrent and the insufficient zonal slope of the thermocline. It also makes the distributions of temperature and zonal velocity along the equator more realistic. A similar test with a different vertical mixing scheme supports the generality of the results.
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U2 - 10.1029/2005GL024540
DO - 10.1029/2005GL024540
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:31544454382
VL - 32
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
SN - 0094-8276
IS - 23
M1 - L23609
ER -