scholarly journals The Processes of SST Cooling by Typhoon Passage and Case Study of Typhoon Rex with a Mixed layer Ocean Model.

2002 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiyoshi Wada
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Sst Cooling ◽  
Mixed Layer Ocean

scholarly journals SST Variability and Its Mechanism in a Coupled Atmosphere–Mixed Layer Ocean Model

1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1221-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akio Kitoh ◽  
Tatsuo Motoi ◽  
Hiroshi Koide
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Sst Variability ◽  
Mixed Layer Ocean

scholarly journals A One-Dimensional Mixed Layer Ocean Model for Use in Three-Dimensional Climate Simulations: Control Simulation Compared to Observations

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 2199-2221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Y. Stephens ◽  
Robert J. Oglesby ◽  
Martin Maxey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Mixed Layer ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Mixed Layer Depth ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Ocean Model ◽  
Ocean Dynamics ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Mixed Layer Ocean

Abstract A study has been made of the dynamic interactions between the surface layer of the ocean and the atmosphere using a climate model that contains a new approach to predicting the sea surface temperature (SST). The atmospheric conditions are simulated numerically with the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3). The SST is determined by a modified Kraus–Turner-type one-dimensional mixed layer ocean model (MLOM) for the upper ocean that has been coupled to CCM3. The MLOM simulates vertical ocean dynamics and demonstrates the effects of the seasonal variation of mixed layer depth and convective instability on the SST. A purely thermodynamic slab ocean model (SOM) is currently available for use with CCM3 to predict the SST. A large-scale ocean general circulation model (OGCM) may also be coupled to CCM3; however, the OGCM is computationally intensive and is therefore not a good tool for conducting multiple sensitivity studies. The MLOM provides an alternative to the SOM that contains seasonally and spatially specified mixed layer depths. The SOM also contains a heat flux correction called Q-flux that crudely accounts for ocean heat transport by artificially specifying a heat flux that forces the SOM to replicate the observed SST. The results of the coupled MLOM–CCM3 reveal that the MLOM may be used on a global scale and can therefore replace the standard coupled SOM–CCM3 that contains no explicit ocean dynamics. Additionally, stand-alone experiments of the MLOM that are forced with realistic winds, heat, and moisture fluxes show that the MLOM closely approximates the observed seasonal cycle of SST.

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