Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6945-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6945-2021
Methods for assessment of models
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17 Nov 2021
Methods for assessment of models |  | 17 Nov 2021

Plume spreading test case for coastal ocean models

Vera Fofonova​​​​​​​, Tuomas Kärnä, Knut Klingbeil, Alexey Androsov, Ivan Kuznetsov, Dmitry Sidorenko, Sergey Danilov, Hans Burchard, and Karen Helen Wiltshire

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CEC1: 'Comment on gmd-2020-438', Juan Antonio Añel, 03 Apr 2021
    • AC1: 'Reply on CEC1', Vera Fofonova, 16 Apr 2021
  • RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2020-438', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Apr 2021
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Vera Fofonova, 29 Jul 2021
  • RC2: 'Comment on gmd-2020-438', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jul 2021
    • AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Vera Fofonova, 29 Jul 2021
      • EC1: 'Reply on AC3', Sandra Arndt, 02 Aug 2021
        • AC4: 'Reply on EC1', Vera Fofonova, 03 Aug 2021
          • AC5: 'Reply on AC4', Vera Fofonova, 03 Aug 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Vera Fofonova on behalf of the Authors (29 Jul 2021)  Manuscript 
EF by Svenja Lange (04 Aug 2021)  Author's tracked changes 
EF by Svenja Lange (05 Aug 2021)  Author's response 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Sep 2021) by Sandra Arndt
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (12 Oct 2021)
ED: Publish as is (12 Oct 2021) by Sandra Arndt
AR by Vera Fofonova on behalf of the Authors (18 Oct 2021)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
We present a test case of river plume spreading to evaluate coastal ocean models. Our test case reveals the level of numerical mixing (due to parameterizations used and numerical treatment of processes in the model) and the ability of models to reproduce complex dynamics. The major result of our comparative study is that accuracy in reproducing the analytical solution depends less on the type of applied model architecture or numerical grid than it does on the type of advection scheme.