CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)

WGOMD and guests in Venice for the 10th Session of WGOMD, January 2012

News and Updates

• WGOMD/SOP Workshop on Sea Level Rise, Ocean/Ice Shelf Interactions and Ice Sheets - CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, 18-20 February 2013
• 11th Session of WGOMD - CSIRO, Hobart, Australia, 21-23 February 2013
• 4th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models - Met Office, Exeter, UK, 15-19 April 2013

• CORE Release Notes

The document describes the datasets and protocol for running global ocean-ice climate models according to the CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs).

Griffies, S. M., Winton, M., Samuels, B., Danabasoglu, G., Yeager, S., Marlsand, 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, pp. 21

• 10th Session of WGOMD - 11-13 January 2012, Institute of Marine Sciences, Venice, Italy

• OceanObs'09 White Paper: Problems and Prospects in Large Scale Ocean Circulation Models

Griffies, S. M., Adcroft, A. J., Banks, H., Böning, C. W., Chassignet, E. P., Danabasoglu, G., Danilov, S., Deleersnijder, E., Drange, H., England, M., Fox-Kemper, B., Gerdes, R., Gnanadesikan, A., Greatbatch, R., J., Hallberg, R. W., Hanert, E., Harrison, M. J., Legg, S. A., Little, C. M., Madec, G., Marsland, S., Nikurashin, M., Pirani, A., Simmons, H. L., Schröter, J., Samuels, B. L., Treguier, A. M., Toggweiler, J. R., Tsujino, H., Vallis, G. K., and White, L., 2010: Problems and Prospects in Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Models, Proceedings of the OceanObs’09 Conference: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Volume 2, Eds. J. Hall and D.E. Harrison and D. Stammer, ESA Publication WPP-306.

• Recommendations from WGOMD Committee on CMIP5 Ocean Model Output

Griffies, S. M. and G. Danabasoglu, 2011: Physical Ocean Fields in CMIP5. CLIVAR Exchanges – WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project – Phase 5, No. 56, Vol. 16, 32-34.

Griffies, S. M., A. J. Adcroft, H. Aiki, V. Balaji, M. Bentson, F. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, S. Denvil, H. Drange, M. England, J. Gregory, R. W. Hallberg, S. Legg, T. Martin, T. McDougall, A.Pirani, G. Schmidt, D. Stevens, K. E. Taylor, and H. Tsujino, 2009: Sampling Physical Ocean Fields in WCRP CMIP5 Simulations. ICPO Publication Series 137, WCRP Informal Report No. 3/2009

• CORE I community reference paper

Simulations are presented from seven global ocean-ice models using the CORE-I design (repeating annual cycle of atmospheric forcing for 500years):
Griffies, S. M., A. Biastoch, C. Böning, F. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, E. P. Chassignet, M. H. England, R. Gerdes, H. Haak, R. W. Hallberg, W. Hazeleger, J. Jungclaus, W. G. Large, G. Madec, A. Pirani, B. L. Samuels, M. Scheinert, A. Sen Gupta, C. A. Severijns, H. L. Simmons, A. M. Treguier, M. Winton, S. Yeager and J. Yin, 2009: Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs). Ocean Modelling, 26, 1–46.

• CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issues

Furthering the Science of Ocean Climate Modelling, CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue, January 2008, No. 44, Vol 13, 40pp.

Ocean Model Development and Assessment, CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue, July 2007, No. 42, Vol. 12, 28pp.