2004 LOM Workshop

Tuesday 4:00 - 4:20 p.m.

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Micom as the ocean component of a regional coupled climate model

Jens Debernard
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
jens.debernard@met.no

ABSTRACT

Regional atmospheric climate models are popular tools used to refine climate change scenarios from coarse resolution global climate models to asses possible climate changes at regional scales. However, in some regions these models may experience unphysical behavior due to the lack of strong feedback mechanisms caused by sea ice. In the northernmost parts of Europe, this may be an important problem. Therefore, we develop a regional coupled climate model for the Arctic. The coupled system consist of a regional atmosphere model, an ice model that also acts at the coupler, and our version of the ocean model MICOM. The talk will focus on the strategy and methodology for the coupling together with results from coupled ice-ocean simulations for a domain covering the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

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