An Analysis of Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Experiments in General Circulation Models with and without Mountains

1987 ◽  
Vol 44 (14) ◽  
pp. 1828-1844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice L. Blackmon ◽  
Grant W. Branstator ◽  
Gary T. Bates ◽  
John E. Geisler
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Temperature Anomaly ◽  
General Circulation Models ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly

scholarly journals Assessing bias corrections of oceanic surface conditions for atmospheric models

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Beaumet ◽  
Gerhard Krinner ◽  
Michel Déqué ◽  
Rein Haarsma ◽  
Laurent Li
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
General Circulation Models ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Ice Concentration ◽  
Ice Concentration ◽  
Analogue Method

Abstract. Future sea surface temperature and sea-ice concentration from coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models such as those from the CMIP5 experiment are often used as boundary forcings for the downscaling of future climate experiments. Yet, these models show some considerable biases when compared to the observations over present climate. In this paper, existing methods such as an absolute anomaly method and a quantile–quantile method for sea surface temperature (SST) as well as a look-up table and a relative anomaly method for sea-ice concentration (SIC) are presented. For SIC, we also propose a new analogue method. Each method is objectively evaluated with a perfect model test using CMIP5 model experiments and some real-case applications using observations. We find that with respect to other previously existing methods, the analogue method is a substantial improvement for the bias correction of future SIC. Consistency between the constructed SST and SIC fields is an important constraint to consider, as is consistency between the prescribed sea-ice concentration and thickness; we show that the latter can be ensured by using a simple parameterisation of sea-ice thickness as a function of instantaneous and annual minimum SIC.

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