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A hybrid coupled model for the pacific ocean-atmosphere system. Part I: Description and basic performance
Description: A hybrid coupled model (HCM) is constructed for El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related modeling studies over almost the entire Pacific basin. An ocean general circulation model is coupled to a statistical atmospheric model for interannual wind stress anomalies to represent their dominant coupling with sea surface temperatures. In addition, various relevant forcing and feedback processes exist in the region and can affect ENSO in a significant way; their effects are simply represented using historical data and are incorporated into the HCM, including stochastic forcing of atmospheric winds, and feedbacks associated with freshwater flux, ocean biology-induced heating (OBH), and tropical instability waves (TIWs). [Source: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00376-014-3266-5
Availability: Summary
Source: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Publish Date: 3/1/2015
Reading Level: Expert
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