[PDF] Top 20 High-resolution nested model simulations of the climatological circulation in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea

... tiyear, climatological simulation forced by perpetual year, monthly mean surface heat fluxes and wind stress, and by ten-day mean lateral boundary conditions taken from a sim- ilarly forced coarser grid ... See full document

... The dominant flow features of the CYCOM domain were the strong MMJ, which is shown clearly to bifurcate SW of Cyprus, and the Lattakia cyclonic eddy. Both features appear almost throughout the entire period of the ... See full document

... V2.2 simulations and tide gauge observations are shown in ...the model implementations fail in reproducing this ...this model configu- ration is also able to reproduce the less pronounced observed ... See full document

... 3 Model simulation 3.1 Initial conditions and forcing fields The model was initialized with temperature and salinity fields extracted from a climatological run of the regional ALERMO model ... See full document

... previous high-resolution ...horizontal resolution model and the free-surface 1/16 ◦ × 1/16 ◦ ...lid model is not able to simulate the seasonal variability of the dynamic topography ... See full document

... on model skill; simulations over periods that have better data coverage are necessary for model ...the nested NAS model predictions to those of the outer ALERMO model that was ... See full document

... the Mediterranean Sea (Table 1) that is of interest because this flux can now be used to estimate the hydrothermal flux of other chemical ...Our simulations show that high- resolution ... See full document

... 3.4.2 Model output As a first evaluation of the results of the simulations, the integrated KE is shown in figure ...incredibly high KE with values that oscillates between 23 and more than 30 cm 2 /s ... See full document

... 4.2 Model-model comparison The performance of the coupling between the POM fine reso- lution model and the OGCM-MOM coarse model can be ob- tained by comparing the inner model output ... See full document

... eddy-permitting model, realisti- cally simulating the marine circulation, also permits a more realistic representation of SST structure, in terms of patterns, gradients and ...that Mediterranean ... See full document

... and model param- eterisation, and improves the representation of small-scale errors in the background error covariance ...standard climatological covariances without systematic error ...different ... See full document

... a high-resolution regional model of the entire Mediter- ranean ...The simulations run between 1950 and 2011, which cover the period of nuclear bomb tests in the atmo- sphere in the late 1950s ... See full document

... south and to the north of the Balearic Islands), appears as a continuous northeastwards flow closing the cyclonic circu- lation that is delimited southward by an oceanic front. In contrast, the southern region of the NMS ... See full document

... successive nested grids to obtain high-resolution wave fields near the ...study high- resolution wave simulations are analysed for a full year where high-resolution ... See full document

... The Mediterranean Sea is a particular system, characterized by a complex thermohaline, wind, and water flux-driven multi-scale circulation with interactive variability ...land-locked sea is ... See full document

... 3.1.1 Mediterranean domain In this specific work the parent atmospheric model domain should be wide enough to cover the Mediter- ranean Sea ...area model the role to take into ac- count the ... See full document

... Our model results suggest that if a sill depth of ≈ 10 m ex- isted during the MSC, either due to a global sea level drop or local uplift due to flexure or tectonics, the salinity rise in the ... See full document

... general circulation follows the slope (depths >100-200 m) more than the coast- line (Millot, 1999), because it has a significant ...alongslope circulation around the Tunisian continental shelf is well ... See full document

... the Mediterranean Sea based on climatologi- cal temperature and salinity ...the Mediterranean and the presence of gyres and fronts create a wide range of spatial and temporal variabilities, with ... See full document

... sea exchange. On the other hand, the ventilation rate is the key mechanism and the most important factor controlling the 14 C distribution in the deep layer. The model has provided, for the first time, the ... See full document