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Model evaluation paper
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23 Oct 2025
Model evaluation paper |
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| 23 Oct 2025
Evaluation of a coupled ocean and sea-ice model (MOM6-NEP10k) over the Bering Sea and its sensitivity to turbulence decay scales
Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
NOAA OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA
Wei Cheng
Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
NOAA OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA
Phyllis J. Stabeno
NOAA OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA
Albert J. Hermann
Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
NOAA OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA
Elizabeth J. Drenkard
NOAA OAR Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
Charles A. Stock
NOAA OAR Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
Katherine Hedstrom
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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Short summary
Both physical and ecosystem properties of the ocean are rapidly changing. These changes anticipating ecosystem responses to environmental change and effectively managing marine. The model-based predictions and their performance in the historical states of the ocean must be carefully evaluated against observations. In this study a coupled ocean and sea-ice simulation during 1993–2018 using observations. We focus on the Bering Sea shelf, which is the largest productive ecosystem in the US.
Both physical and ecosystem properties of the ocean are rapidly changing. These changes...
