Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9167-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9167-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
Methods for assessment of models
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27 Nov 2025
Methods for assessment of models |  | 27 Nov 2025

Quantifying coupling errors in atmosphere-ocean-sea ice models: A study of iterative and non-iterative approaches in the EC-Earth AOSCM

Valentina Schüller, Florian Lemarié, Philipp Birken, and Eric Blayo

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Earth system models consist of many components, coupled in time and space. Standard coupling algorithms introduce a numerical error, which one can compute with iterative coupling methods. We use such a method for a coupled model of a single vertical column of the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice. We find that coupling errors in the atmosphere and at the ice surface can be substantial and that discontinuous physics parameterizations lead to convergence issues of the iteration.
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