Verification of the mixed layer depth in the OceanMAPS operational forecast model for Austral autumn

Boettger, Daniel; Robertson, Robin; Brassington, Gary B.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3795-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3795-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3795-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 9

Model evaluation paper

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24 Sep 2018

Model evaluation paper |

| 24 Sep 2018

Verification of the mixed layer depth in the OceanMAPS operational forecast model for Austral autumn

Daniel Boettger, Robin Robertson, and Gary B. Brassington

Data sets

Class 4 Dataset - OceanMAPS version 2.2.1 and version 3.0 D. Boettger, R. Robertson, and G. Brassington https://doi.org/10.4225/53/5ac71c59a5f49

Short summary

This study focuses on the impact of the model vertical mixing parameterisation on the representation of the mixed layer depth (MLD) in ocean forecast models. We compare data from two recent versions of the OceanMAPS forecast system, and find that while there were large improvements in the later version of the model, the skill of each parameterisation varies with spatial location.