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Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments - Phase II

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| DOI: 10.5065/D6WM1C78
 
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Abstract:

Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) were proposed by the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) as a venue for comparing global ocean-sea ice models run under a common prescribed atmospheric state, with boundary fluxes computed via the same bulk formulae. CORE simulations complement the coupled climate and earth system models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Efforts across a broad community of modeling groups have produced CORE Phase 2 hindcast simulations (CORE-II) using 62 years (1948-2009) of interannual forcing.

The CORE-II simulations provide a framework to evaluate ocean model performance, to study mechanisms of ocean phenomena and their variability from seasonal to decadal timescales, to identify forced variability changes, and to develop mechanistic descriptions of observed climate variability and change.

Temporal Range:
1948 to 2009
Updates:
Irregularly
Variables:
Air Temperature Fresh Water Flux Ice Depth/Thickness Ice Growth/Melt
Ocean Tracers Potential Density Potential Temperature Rain
Salinity Salinity Salt Transport Sea Ice Concentration
Sea Surface Height Sea Surface Temperature Snow Melt Water Depth
Data Types:
Grid
Data Contributors:
DOC/NOAA/GFDL
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Commerce
 |  JP/JMA
Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
 |  NO/IMR
Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
 |  AWI
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
 |  U-SOTON/NOC
National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
 |  FSU/COAPS
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University
 |  UCAR/NCAR/CGD/OCE
Oceanography Section, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 |  FR/CNRM
Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, France
Related Resources:
Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments - Phase II Project Page
Publications:
Griffies, S. M., Winton, M., Samuels, B., Danabasoglu, G., Yeager, S., Marsland, S., Drange., H., and Bentsen, M., 2012: Datasets and protocol for the CLIVAR WGOMD Coordinated Ocean-sea ice Reference Experiments (COREs). WCRP Report No. 21/2012, WCRP, 21 pp.
Large, W. G. and S. G. Yeager., 2009: The global climatology of an interannually varying air–sea flux data set. Climate Dynamics, 33, 341-364 (DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0441-3).
Total Volume:
2.58 TB (Entire dataset) Volume details by dataset product
Data Formats:
netCDF
Metadata Record:
Data License:
Data LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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