EGU2020-16753, updated on 02 Jan 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16753
EGU General Assembly 2020
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AMOC response to changing resolution in the Finite-volumE Sea ice–Ocean Model

Dmitry Sidorenko1, Sergey Danilov1,2, Nikolay Koldunov1,3, and Patrick Scholz1
Dmitry Sidorenko et al.
  • 1Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
  • 2Department of Mathematics and Logistics, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
  • 3MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen,Germany.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the most common diagnostics of numerical simulations. Generally it is computed as a streamfunction of zonally averaged flow along the constant depth. More rarely it is computed as zonally averaged along constant isopycnals. The latter computation, however, allows one to better distinguish between water masses and physical processes contributing to the meridional transport. We analyze the AMOC in global simulations based on the Finite-volumE Sea ice–Ocean Model (FESOM 2.0) using eddy permitting to eddy resolving configurations in the North Atlantic. We (1) split the AMOC computed in density space into the constitutes induced by surface buoyancy fluxes and cross isopycnal transformations, (2) identify the water masses which contribute to the formation of the North Atlantic Deep Water and (3) study the AMOC response to the permitting or resolving eddies in the North Atlantic ocean.

How to cite: Sidorenko, D., Danilov, S., Koldunov, N., and Scholz, P.: AMOC response to changing resolution in the Finite-volumE Sea ice–Ocean Model, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-16753, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16753, 2020.

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