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A modeling framework to understand historical and projected ocean climate change in large coupled ensembles
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Clément Rousset
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Eric Guilyardi
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Jean-Baptiste Sallée
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Juliette Mignot
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
Christian Ethé
IPSL (Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris, France
Gurvan Madec
LOCEAN-IPSL, Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat, Expérimentation et Approches Numériques, Sorbonne Université/CNRS/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
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Short summary
A modeling framework is introduced to understand and decompose the mechanisms causing the ocean temperature, salinity and circulation to change since the pre-industrial period and into 21st century scenarios of global warming. This framework aims to look at the response to changes in the winds and in heat and freshwater exchanges at the ocean interface in global climate models, throughout the 1850–2100 period, to unravel their individual effects on the changing physical structure of the ocean.
A modeling framework is introduced to understand and decompose the mechanisms causing the ocean...
