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A flexible Regional Ocean Modeling System-based hybrid coupled model for El Niño–Southern Oscillation studies – model formulation and performance evaluation
Yang Yu
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Yin-Nan Li
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management/School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
Shu-Hua Chen
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Yu-Heng Tseng
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Wenzhe Zhang
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Hongna Wang
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
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Short summary
In this paper, we develop a new flexible hybrid coupled model (HCM) by incorporating the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) into a statistical atmospheric model. The model performance is evaluated for its ability to simulate processes related to El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The newly developed HCMROMS is expected to become an effective modeling tool for studying the multiscale and multisphere interactions associated with ENSO in the tropical Pacific.
In this paper, we develop a new flexible hybrid coupled model (HCM) by incorporating the...
