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Development and technical paper
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01 Sep 2022
Development and technical paper |
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NeverWorld2: an idealized model hierarchy to investigate ocean mesoscale eddies across resolutions
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Nora Loose
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Elizabeth Yankovsky
Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Jacob M. Steinberg
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Chiung-Yin Chang
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Neeraja Bhamidipati
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Alistair Adcroft
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Baylor Fox-Kemper
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Stephen M. Griffies
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Robert W. Hallberg
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Malte F. Jansen
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Hemant Khatri
Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Laure Zanna
Courant Institute, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Short summary
We present an idealized ocean model configuration and a set of simulations performed using varying horizontal grid spacing. While the model domain is idealized, it resembles important geometric features of the Atlantic and Southern oceans. The simulations described here serve as a framework to effectively study mesoscale eddy dynamics, to investigate the effect of mesoscale eddies on the large-scale dynamics, and to test and evaluate eddy parameterizations.
We present an idealized ocean model configuration and a set of simulations performed using...
