This monograph is the first to survey progress in realistic simulation in a strongly eddying regime made possible by recent increases in computational capability. Its contributors comprise the leading researchers in this important and constantly evolving field.

Divided into three parts

Oceanographic Processes and Regimes: Fundamental Questions
Ocean Dynamics and State: From Regional to Global Scale, and
Modeling at the Mesoscale: State of the Art and Future Directions

The volume details important advances in physical oceanography based on eddy resolving ocean modeling. It captures the state of the art and discusses issues that ocean modelers must consider in order to effectively contribute to advancing current knowledge, from subtleties of the underlying fluid dynamical equations to meaningful comparison with oceanographic observations and leading-edge model development. It summarizes many of the important results which have emerged from ocean modeling in an eddying regime, for those interested broadly in the physical science. More technical topics are intended to address the concerns of those actively working in the field.

Autorentext

Matthew W. Hecht and Hiroyasu Hasumi are the authors of Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime, published by Wiley.

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Preface

Matthew W. Hecht and Hiroyasu Hasumi i

Introduction: Ocean Modeling--Eddy or Not

Frank O. Bryan 1

Section 1: Oceanographic Processes and Regimes

Fundamental Question

The Nature and Consequences of Oceanic Eddies

James C. McWilliams 5

Submesoscale Processes and Dynamics

Leif N. Thomas, Amit Tandon, and Amala Mahadevan 17

Gulf Stream Separation in Numerical Ocean Models

Eric P. Chassignet and David P. Marshall 39

Eddy-Resolving Modeling of Overflows

S. Legg, L. Jackson, and R. W. Hallberg 63

High-Frequency Winds and Eddy-Resolving Models

Patrice Klein 83

Resolution Dependence of Eddy Fluxes

Yukio Tanaka and Hiroyasu Hasumi 101

Eddies and Upper-Ocean Nutrient Supply

A. Oschlies 115

Eddies in Eastern Boundary Subtropical Upwelling Systems

X. Capet, F. Colas, J. C. McWilliams, P. Penven, and P.
Marchesiello 131

Section 2: Ocean Dynamics and State

From Region to Global Scale

The Fidelity of Ocean Models With Explicit Eddies

Julie McClean, Steven Jayne, Mathew Maltrud, and Detelina
Ivanova 149

Common Success and Failure in Simulating the Pacific Surface
Currents Shared by Four High-Resolution Ocean Models

Tatsuo Suzuki, Hideharu Sasaki, Norikazu Nakashiki, and Hideyuki
Nakano 165

Eddies in Numerical Models of the Southern Ocean

V. O. Ivchenko, S. Danilov and D. Olbers 177

High-Resolution Indian Ocean Simulations - Recent Advances
and Issues From OFES

Yukio Masumoto, Yushi Morioka, and Hideharu Sasaki 199

Towards a Physical Understanding of the North Atlantic: A Review
of Model Studies in an Eddying Regime

Matthew W. Hecht and Richard D. Smith 213

Towards Eddy-Resolving Models of the Arctic Ocean

Wieslaw Maslowski, Jaclyn L. Clement Kinney, Douglas C. Marble,
and Jaromir Jakacki 241

Pacific Upper Ocean Response to Global Warming--Climate
Modeling in an Eddying Ocean Regime

Takashi T. Sakamoto and Hiroyasu Hasumi 265

Section 3: Modeling at the Mesoscale

State of the Art and Future Directions

Formulating the Equations of Ocean Models

Stephen M. Griffies and Alistair J. Adcroft 281

Can Large Eddy Simulation Techniques Improve Mesoscale Rich
Ocean Models?

B. Fox-Kemper and D. Menemenlis 319

Lateral Mixing in the Eddying Regime and a New Broad-Ranging
Formulation

Matthew W. Hecht, Mark R. Petersen, Beth A. Wingate, Elizabeth
Hunke, and Mathew Maltrud 339

Eddy-Resolving Global Ocean Prediction

Harley E. Hurlburt, Eric P. Chassignet, James A. Cummings, A.
Birol Kara, E. Joseph Metzger, Jay F. Shriver, Ole Martin Smedstad,
Alan J. Wallcraft, and Charlie N. Barron 353

Unstructured Adaptive Meshes for Ocean Modeling

Matthew D. Piggott, Christopher C. Pain, Gerard J. Gorman, David
P. Marshall, and Peter D. Killworth 383