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Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution
Authors:Barnier Bernard  Gurvan Madec  Thierry Penduff  Jean-Marc Molines  Anne-Marie Treguier  Julien Le Sommer  Aike Beckmann  Arne Biastoch  Claus Böning  Joachim Dengg  Corine Derval  Edmée Durand  Sergei Gulev  Elizabeth Remy  Claude Talandier  Sébastien Theetten  Mathew Maltrud  Julie McClean  Beverly De Cuevas
Institution:1. Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, France
2. Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris, France
3. Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Ifremer Centre de Brest, Plouzané, France
4. Department of Physical Sciences, Division of Geophysics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
5. IfM-GEOMAR, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universit?t Kiel, Kiel, Germany
6. MERCATOR-Ocean, Toulouse, France
7. Shirshov Institut of Oceanography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
8. Fluid Dynamics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
9. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, LA Jolla, USA
10. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Abstract:Series of sensitivity tests were performed with a z-coordinate, global eddy-permitting (1/4°) ocean/sea-ice model (the ORCA-R025 model configuration developed for the DRAKKAR project) to carefully evaluate the impact of recent state-of-the-art numerical schemes on model solutions. The combination of an energy–enstrophy conserving (EEN) scheme for momentum advection with a partial step (PS) representation of the bottom topography yields significant improvements in the mean circulation. Well known biases in the representation of western boundary currents, such as in the Atlantic the detachment of the Gulf Stream, the path of the North Atlantic Current, the location of the Confluence, and the strength of the Zapiola Eddy in the south Atlantic, are partly corrected. Similar improvements are found in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, and characteristics of the mean flow are generally much closer to observations. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art models show that the ORCA-R025 configuration generally performs better at similar resolution. In addition, the model solution is often comparable to solutions obtained at 1/6 or 1/10° resolution in some aspects concerning mean flow patterns and distribution of eddy kinetic energy. Although the reasons for these improvements are not analyzed in detail in this paper, evidence is shown that the combination of EEN with PS reduces numerical noise near the bottom, which is likely to affect current–topography interactions in a systematic way. We conclude that significant corrections of the mean biases presently seen in general circulation model solutions at eddy-permitting resolution can still be expected from the development of numerical methods, which represent an alternative to increasing resolution.
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