Articles | Volume 15, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6567-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6567-2022
Development and technical paper
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01 Sep 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 01 Sep 2022

NeverWorld2: an idealized model hierarchy to investigate ocean mesoscale eddies across resolutions

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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.