<span style="" class="text smallcaps">wavetrisk</span>-2.1: an adaptive dynamical core for ocean modelling

Kevlahan, Nicholas K.-R.; Lemarié, Florian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6521-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 17

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6521-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6521-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 17

Development and technical paper

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31 Aug 2022

Development and technical paper |

| 31 Aug 2022

wavetrisk-2.1: an adaptive dynamical core for ocean modelling

Nicholas K.-R. Kevlahan and Florian Lemarié

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Final revised paper (published on 31 Aug 2022)
Preprint (discussion started on 13 Dec 2021)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

RC1:
'Comment on gmd-2021-365', Mike Bell, 13 Jan 2022

Please see the attached file for the review.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-365-RC1
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Nicholas Kevlahan, 08 Jun 2022
  
  Please see the attached pdf file.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-365-AC1
RC2:
'Comment on gmd-2021-365', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Apr 2022

This is a well-written paper on the ocean version of the WAVETRISK model worth publication. It discusses the equations being solved along with their spatial discretizations, the time-stepping module, the vertical diffusion and TKE closure, the penalisation of lateral boundaries, outline of the relevant algorithms, and finally numerical results against some standard test cases.

I was able to view the very detailed review of Referee # 1. I agree with his recommendations and suggestions. He has addressed every relevant issue worth mentioning. My only personal recommendation would be to add some convergence plots (to test the accuracy of the WAVETRISK model) and some scaling plots e.g. against the number of cores (to test the performance).

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-365-RC2
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Nicholas Kevlahan, 08 Jun 2022
  
  Please see the attached pdf file.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-365-AC2

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload

AR by Nicholas Kevlahan on behalf of the Authors (08 Jun 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Jun 2022) by Simone Marras

RR by Mike Bell (23 Jun 2022)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Jun 2022) by Simone Marras

AR by Nicholas Kevlahan on behalf of the Authors (24 Jun 2022) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Jun 2022) by Simone Marras

AR by Nicholas Kevlahan on behalf of the Authors (09 Aug 2022) Manuscript

Short summary

WAVETRISK-2.1 is an innovative climate model for the world's oceans. It uses state-of-the-art techniques to change the model's resolution locally, from O(100 km) to O(5 km), as the ocean changes. This dynamic adaptivity makes optimal use of available supercomputer resources, and allows two-dimensional global scales and three-dimensional submesoscales to be captured in the same simulation. WAVETRISK-2.1 is designed to be coupled its companion global atmosphere model, WAVETRISK-1.x.