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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-24
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-24
Submitted as: development and technical paper
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13 Mar 2023
Submitted as: development and technical paper |  | 13 Mar 2023
Status: this preprint is currently under review for the journal GMD.

Design and Evaluation of an Efficient High-Precision Ocean Surface Wave Model with a Multiscale Grid System (MSG_Wav1.0)

Jiangyu Li, Shaoqing Zhang, Qingxiang Liu, Xiaolin Yu, and Zhiwei Zhang

Abstract. Ocean surface waves induced by wind forcing and topographic effects are a crucial physical process at the air-sea interface, which significantly affect typhoon development, ocean mixing, etc. Higher-resolution wave modeling can simulate more accurate wave states, but requires huge computational resources, making it difficult for Earth system models to include ocean waves as a fast-response physical process. Given that high-resolution Earth system models are in demand, efficient high-precision wave simulation is necessary and urgent. Based on the wave dispersion relation, we design a new wave modeling framework using a multiscale grid system. It has the fewest number of fine grids and reasonable grid spacing in deep water areas. We compare the performance of wave simulation using different spatial propagation schemes, reveal the different reasons for wave simulation differences in the westerly zone and the active tropical cyclone region, and quantify the matching of spatial resolutions between wave models and wind forcing. A series of numerical experiments show that this new modeling framework can more precisely simulate wave states in shallow water areas without losing accuracy in the deep ocean while costing a small fraction of traditional simulations with uniform fine-gridding space. With affordable computational expenses, the new ocean surface wave modeling can be implemented into high-resolution Earth system models, which may significantly improve the simulation of the atmospheric planetary boundary layer and upper-ocean mixing.

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Ocean surface waves play an important role at the air-sea interface but are rarely activated in high-resolution Earth system simulations due to their expensive computational costs. To alleviate this situation, this paper designs a new wave modeling framework with a multiscale grid system. Evaluations of a series of numerical experiments show that it has good feasibility and applicability in WW3, and can achieve the goals of efficient and high-precision wave simulation.