TL;DR: A fully coupled global simulation using the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) was configured using grid resolutions of 0.1° for the ocean and sea-ice, and 0.25° for atmosphere and land, and was run under present-day greenhouse gas conditions for 20 years as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the numerical dispersion coefficient associated with common discretizations of the primitive equations was compared to the physical dispersion coefficients from the Boussinesq equations or KdV equation.

TL;DR: Theoretical tracer diffusivities given by linear Eady theory that accounts for non-zero bottom slopes are compared with diffusivity diagnosed from primitive equation simulations of thermally forced flows over an idealized continental slope as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the Mediterranean Sea response in sensitivity experiments conducted by driving the NEMO-MED12 oceanic model in perpetual mode with various atmospheric forcings, all produced by the WRF non-hydrostatic mesoscale atmospheric model.

TL;DR: The Gent and McWilliams eddy parameterization of the effect of mesoscale eddies on the mean flow came about at the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development workshop on Ocean Mesoscale Eddies as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D unstructured grid model, SELFE, is applied in its 2D spherical coordinate configuration for modeling the impact of the 1964 Prince William Sound tsunami on the US Pacific Northwest coast.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed sub-mesoscale dynamics in tropical instability waves (TIWs) of the Pacific ocean from nested numerical simulations of increasing resolution (36 km, 12 km, and 4 km).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used dynamical systems approach and Lagrangian tools to study surface transport and mixing of water masses in a selected coastal region of the Japan Sea with moving mesoscale eddies associated with the Primorskoye Current.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parameterized surface wave-induced vertical mixing (Bv) is incorporated into the Modular Ocean Model version 4 (MOM4) to improve the upper-ocean simulation in summer.

TL;DR: In this paper, a triply-nested coastal circulation modelling system is used in examining hydrodynamic responses of the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and adjacent coastal waters of the South China Sea to tides, atmospheric forcing and freshwater runoff from the Pearl river during the wet season from May to August.

TL;DR: In this article, a simplified version of the Equation of State of seawater (EOS) is proposed for a free-surface, Boussinesq-approximation model.

TL;DR: In this article, a fully nonlinear, non-hydrostatic model, MITgcm, is used to investigate internal solitary waves (ISWs) from the Luzon Strait (LS).

TL;DR: In this paper, the SUNTANS model is applied to San Francisco Bay using a grid with an average resolution of 50 m. This model accurately resolves tidal hydrodynamics in a domain that extends from the Pacific Ocean to the western portion of the Delta region, the flow through which is approximated with two rectangular boxes as a false delta.

TL;DR: The predicted waves obtained using the proposed time series models when compared with the numerically generated waves showed good resemblance in terms of the selected error criteria and are a cost effective and convenient option when a site-specific information is desired.

TL;DR: View the MathML source coordinate as discussed by the authors is a geodesic coordinate that treats external motions as a z*-coordinate, internal low frequency motions in a Eulerian way and high frequency ones in a Lagrangian way.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ensemble prediction study of the East Australian Current (EAC) with a specific focus on the examination of the role of dynamical instabilities and flow dependent growing errors is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the establishment of form stress in the spinup of a rotating isopycnal wind-driven channel model, with reference to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

TL;DR: A Bayesian-based multiscale Objective Analysis approach to complex coastal regions and archipelagos is extended and new schemes for the mapping and dynamical inference of ocean fields in complex multiply-connected domains are derived and utilized.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of adaptive meshes as implemented in the non-hydrostatic, finite-element model Fluidity-ICOM is evaluated in numerical simulations of the two-dimensional lock-exchange flow.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-dimensional, high-resolution, prognostic, nonlinear circulation model for the Newfoundland offshore based on the finite volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) is presented.

TL;DR: The experiments presented here suggest that practical implementation details can have at least as much an impact on the accuracy of the assimilated product as the choice of assimilation technique itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the asymmetric structure of hurricane wind field on storm surge was studied with five types of numerical experiments using a three-dimensional storm surge model, and the results suggest that considerable uncertainty in storm surge and inundation can result from wind asymmetries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of topographically catalysed diapycnal mixing on ocean and atmospheric circulation as well as marine biogeochemistry is studied using an earth system model of intermediate complexity.

TL;DR: In this article, a 2D, fully nonlinear, nonhydrostatic Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) was applied to investigate the generation process and mechanism of ISWs in the northwestern South China Sea (SCS).

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented an approximate approach to solve the wave propagation characteristics in the whole physical range of elasticity, and only two transmitted wave modes were included in the eigenfunction expansions for the ice-covered water.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of different vertical grid resolutions and algorithms for the calculation of particle sinking on the sedimentation and remineralization of particulate organic matter were investigated, and it was shown that a coarse vertical resolution, such as used in many global biogeochemical models, tends to enhance the particle flux through numerical mixing within the vertical boxes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the vertical structure and magnitude of K in an idealized channel model were used to predict the lateral diffusivity K for eddy buoyancy fluxes in a non-linear model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of surface wave breaking on surface boundary layer deepening in the Yellow Sea in summer was studied utilizing a 3-D ocean circulation model, and the diagnostic analysis of the turbulent kinetic energy equation was performed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the meridional shifts of the Gulf Stream (GS) jet on interannual to decadal timescales and the corresponding oceanic changes around the GS using a near global eddyresolving ocean model hindcast from 1960 to 2003.