Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2011-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2011-2021
Development and technical paper
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15 Apr 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 15 Apr 2021

Towards multiscale modeling of ocean surface turbulent mixing using coupled MPAS-Ocean v6.3 and PALM v5.0

Qing Li and Luke Van Roekel

Data sets

Test cases for coupled MPAS-Ocean and PALM Qing Li and Luke Van Roekel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4680969

Model code and software

Archived source code for "Towards Multiscale Modeling of Ocean Surface Turbulent Mixing Using Coupled MPAS-Ocean v6.3 and PALM v5.0" Qing Li and Luke Van Roekel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4131134

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Short summary
Physical processes in the ocean span multiple spatial and temporal scales. Simultaneously resolving all these in a simulation is computationally challenging. Here we develop a more efficient technique to better study the interactions across scales, particularly focusing on the ocean surface turbulent mixing, by coupling a global ocean circulation model MPAS-Ocean and a large eddy simulation model PALM. The latter is customized and ported on a GPU to further accelerate the computation.