An interactive ocean surface albedo scheme (OSAv1.0): formulation and evaluation in ARPEGE-Climat (V6.1) and LMDZ (V5A)

Séférian, Roland; Baek, Sunghye; Boucher, Olivier; Dufresne, Jean-Louis; Decharme, Bertrand; Saint-Martin, David; Roehrig, Romain

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-321-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-321-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-321-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Development and technical paper

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23 Jan 2018

Development and technical paper |

| 23 Jan 2018

An interactive ocean surface albedo scheme (OSAv1.0): formulation and evaluation in ARPEGE-Climat (V6.1) and LMDZ (V5A)

Roland Séférian, Sunghye Baek, Olivier Boucher, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Bertrand Decharme, David Saint-Martin, and Romain Roehrig

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SC1: 'Executive Editor Comment on "An interactive ocean surface albedo scheme: formulation and evaluation in two atmospheric models"', Astrid Kerkweg, 18 Jul 2017
RC1: 'Review of "An interactive ocean surface albedo scheme: formulation and evaluation in two atmospheric models" by Roland Seferian et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Manuscript Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Aug 2017
AC1: 'Response to reviewers and Editorial comments', Roland Séférian, 07 Nov 2017

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This paper presents a new interactive scheme for ocean surface albedo suited for the current generation of Earth system models. This scheme computes the ocean surface albedo accounting for the spectral dependence (across a range of wavelengths between 200 and 4000 nm), the characteristics of incident solar radiation (direct of diffuse), the effects of surface winds, chlorophyll content and whitecaps in addition to the canonical solar zenith angle dependence.