Abstract
Characteristics of the ocean state simulated with the Finite-Element Sea-Ice Ocean Model (FESOM) under the normalized year forcing of Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs; Griffies et al., Ocean Model 26:1–46, 2009) are compared with those of other models participating in COREs. In contrast to these models, FESOM is run on an unstructured mesh (with resolution varying between 20 and 150 km). It is shown that the ocean state simulated by FESOM is in most cases within the spread of other models, demonstrating that the unstructured mesh technology has reached the stage when it becomes a reliable tool for studying the large-scale ocean general circulation.
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This work was supported by the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM (Regional Climate Change). The computational resources for this work were provided through the North-German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN). We are indebted to Martin Losch and Ralph Timmermann for discussions and advice.
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Sidorenko, D., Wang, Q., Danilov, S. et al. FESOM under coordinated ocean-ice reference experiment forcing. Ocean Dynamics 61, 881–890 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-011-0406-7
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