An internal solitary wave forecasting model in the northern  South China Sea (ISWFM-NSCS)

Gong, Yankun; Chen, Xueen; Xu, Jiexin; Xie, Jieshuo; Chen, Zhiwu; He, Yinghui; Cai, Shuqun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2851-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2851-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2851-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

Model evaluation paper

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25 May 2023

Model evaluation paper |

| 25 May 2023

An internal solitary wave forecasting model in the northern South China Sea (ISWFM-NSCS)

Yankun Gong, Xueen Chen, Jiexin Xu, Jieshuo Xie, Zhiwu Chen, Yinghui He, and Shuqun Cai

Data sets

Three-dimensional MITgcm model of Internal solitary waves in the northern South China Sea Yankun Gong https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6792999

Highlighting Recent Uses of the NASA Worldview Mapping Application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov) E. A. Plato, R. A. Boller, K. Baynes, et al. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFMIN21B..04P/abstract

Model code and software

Three-dimensional MITgcm model of Internal solitary waves in the northern South China Sea Yankun Gong https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6792999

Short summary

Internal solitary waves (ISWs) play crucial roles in mass transport and ocean mixing in the northern South China Sea. Massive numerical investigations have been conducted in this region, but there was no systematic evaluation of a three-dimensional model about precisely simulating ISWs. Here, an ISW forecasting model is employed to evaluate the roles of resolution, tidal forcing and stratification in accurately reproducing wave properties via comparison to field and remote-sensing observations.