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Goff, J.A. ; Arbic, B.K.
Title
Global prediction of abyssal hill roughness statistics for use in ocean models from digital maps of paleo-spreading rate, paleo-ridge orientation, and sediment thickness
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2010
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Ocean Modelling
Abbreviated Journal
Ocean Modelling
Volume
32
Issue
1-2
Pages
36-43
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Abyssal hills ; Roughness ; Prediction ; Ocean modeling
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1463-5003
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COAPS @ mfield @
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345
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Goto, Y.
Title
Improved Vegetation Characterization and Freeze Statistics in a Regional Spectral Model for the Florida Citrus Farming Region
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$loc['typeManuscript']
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2008
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Ensemble Forecast, Climate Model
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This study focused on the effective use of a numerical climate model for agriculture in Florida, especially in the citrus farming region of the Florida peninsula, because of the impact of agriculture to Florida's economy. For the analyses of the ensemble, the climate models used in this study were the FSU/COAPS Global Spectral Model and FSU/COAPS Regional Spectral Model (FSU/COAPS RSM) coupled with a land-surface model. The multi-convective scheme method and variable initial conditions were used for the ensembles. Severe freezes impacting agriculture in Florida were associated with some major climate patterns, such as El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). In the first part of this study, seasonal ensemble integrations of the regional model were examined for the tendencies of freezes in the Florida peninsula during each ENSO or NAO phase is examined. Mean excess values of minimum temperatures from thresholds on the basis of the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD), which represents the extreme data in a dataset, were used to analyze the freezes in the regional model. According to some previous studies, El Niño winters obtain fewer freezes than the other ENSO phases. Although the ensemble comprised only 19 winters, the ensemble found variability patterns in minimum temperatures in each climate phase similar to the findings in the previous studies which were based on the observed data. The FSU/COAPS RSM was coupled with Community Land Model 2.0 (CLM2), to represent the land-surface conditions. Although the coupling improved the temperature forecast of the RSM, it still has a cold bias and simulates smaller diurnal temperature changes than actually occur in southern Florida. Among the prescribed surface data, Leaf Area Index (LAI) for southern Florida in the CLM2 is lower than those observed by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer). In the first experiment of this part, the sensitivity of the temperature forecast to the LAI in the climate models was investigated, by modifying the LAI data in the CLM2 based on the monthly MODIS observations. In the second experiment, newly created prescribed datasets of LAI and plant functional types for the CLM2 based on the MODIS observations were applied to the RSM. The substitution increased the diurnal temperature change in southern Florida slightly but almost consistently.
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Department of Meteorology
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$loc['Ph.D. thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS @ mfield @
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586
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Author
Gouillon, F
Title
Internal Wave Propagation and Numerically Induced Diapycnal Mixing in Oceanic General Circulation Models
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$loc['typeManuscript']
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2010
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spurious mixing, numerical modeling, internal wave, tide
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Numerical ocean models have become powerful tools for providing a realistic view of the ocean state and for describing ocean processes that are difficult to observe. Recent improvements in model performance focus on simulating realistic ocean interior mixing rates, as ocean mixing is the main physical process that creates water masses and maintains their properties. Below the mixed layer, diapycnal mixing primarily arises from the breaking of internal waves, whose energy is largely supplied by winds and tides. This is particularly true in abyssal regions, where the barotropic tide interacts with rough topography and where high levels of diapycnal mixing have been recorded (e.g., the Hawaiian Archipelago). Many studies have discussed the representation of internal wave generation, propagation, and evolution in ocean numerical models. Expanding on these studies, this work seeks to better understand the representation of internal wave dynamics, energetics, and their associated mixing in several different classes of widely used ocean models (e.g., the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model, HYCOM; the Regional Ocean Modeling System, ROMS; and the MIT general circulation model, MITgcm). First, a multi-model study investigates the representation of internal waves for a wide spectrum of numerical choices, such as the horizontal and vertical resolution, the vertical coordinate, and the choice of the numerical advection scheme. Idealized configurations are compared to their corresponding analytical solutions. Some preliminary results of realistic baroclinic tidal simulations are shown for the Gulf of Mexico. Second, the spurious diapycnal mixing that exists in models with fixed vertical coordinates (i.e., geopotential and terrain following) is documented and quantified. This purely numerical error arises because, in fixed-coordinate models, the numerical framework cannot properly maintain the adiabatic properties of an advected water parcel. This unrealistic mixing of water masses can be a source of major error in both regional and global ocean models. We use the tracer flux method to compute the spurious diapycnal diffusivities for both a lockexchange scenario and a propagating internal wave field using all three models. Results for the lock exchange experiments are compared to the results of a recent study. Our results, obtained by using three different model classes, provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of model resolution choice and numerical framework on the magnitude of the spurious diapycnal mixing and the representation of internal waves.
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Department of Oceanography
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$loc['Ph.D. thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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COAPS @ mfield @
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571
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Griffies, S.M. ; Biastoch, A. ; Böning, C. ; Bryan, F. ; Danabasoglu, G. ; Chassignet, E.P. ; England, M.H. ; Gerdes, R. ; Haak, H. ; Hallberg, R.W. ; Hazeleger, W. ; Jungclaus, J. ; Large, W.G. ; Madec, G. ; Pirani, A. ; Samuels, B.L. ; Scheinert, M. ; Gupta, A.S. ; Severijns, C.A. ; Simmons, H.L. ; Treguier, A.M. ; Winton, M. ; Yeager, S. ; Yin, J.
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Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
Year
2009
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Ocean Modelling
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Ocean Modelling
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26
Issue
1-2
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1-46
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Global ocean-ice modelling ; Model comparison ; Experimental design ; Atmospheric forcing ; Analysis diagnostics ; Circulation stability ; World ocean
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1463-5003
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COAPS @ mfield @
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401
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Author
Guimond, S
Title
Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Dynamics: A Latent Heat Retrieval and Its Effects on Intensity and Structure Change; and the Impacts of Effective Diffusion on the Axisymmetrization Process
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2010
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Hurricanes, Doppler Radar, Latent Heat, Axisymmetrization, Diffusion, Numerical Modeling
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Despite the fact that latent heating in cloud systems drives many atmospheric circulations, including tropical cyclones, little is known of its magnitude and structure due in large part to inadequate observations. In this work, a reasonably high-resolution (2 km), four-dimensional airborne Doppler radar retrieval of the latent heat of condensation is presented for rapidly intensifying Hurricane Guillermo (1997). Several advancements in the retrieval algorithm are shown including: (1) analyzing the scheme within the dynamically consistent framework of a numerical model, (2) identifying algorithm sensitivities through the use of ancillary data sources and (3) developing a precipitation budget storage term parameterization. The determination of the saturation state is shown to be an important part of the algorithm for updrafts of ~ 5 m s-1 or less. The uncertainties in the magnitude of the retrieved heating are dominated by errors in the vertical velocity. Using a combination of error propagation and Monte Carlo uncertainty techniques, biases were found to be small, and randomly distributed errors in the heating magnitude were ~16 % for updrafts greater than 5 m s-1 and ~156 % for updrafts of 1 m s- 1. The impact of the retrievals is assessed by inserting the heating into realistic numerical simulations at 2 km resolution and comparing the generated wind structure to the Doppler radar observations of Guillermo. Results show that using the latent heat retrievals outperforms a simulation that relies on a state-of-the-art microphysics scheme (Reisner and Jeffery 2009), in terms of wind speed root-mean-square errors, explained variance and eye/eyewall structure. The incorrect transport of water vapor (a function of the sub-grid model and the numerical approximations to advection) and the restrictions on the magnitude of heat release that ensure the present model's stability are suggested as sources of error in the simulation without the retrievals. Motivated by the latent heat retrievals, the dynamics of vortex axisymmetrization from the perspective of thermal anomalies is investigated using an idealized, non-linear atmospheric model (HIGRAD). Attempts at reproducing the results of previous work (Nolan and Grasso 2003; NG03) revealed a discrepancy with the impacts of purely asymmetric forcing. While NG03 found that purely asymmetric heating led to a negligible, largely negative impact on the vortex intensification, in the present study the impacts of asymmetries are found to have an important, largely positive role. Absolute angular momentum budgets revealed that the essential difference between the present work and that of NG03 was the existence of a significant, axisymmetric secondary circulation in the basic-state vortex used in the HIGRAD simulations. This secondary circulation was larger than that present in NG03's simulations. The spin-up of the vortex caused by the asymmetric thermal anomalies was dominated by the axisymmetric fluxes of angular momentum at all times, indicating fundamentally different evolution of asymmetries in the presence of radial flow. Radial momentum budgets were performed to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the formation of the physically significant secondary circulation. Results show that explicit (sub-grid) diffusion in the model was producing a gradient wind imbalance, which drives a radial inflow and associated secondary circulation in an attempt to re-gain balance. In addition, the production of vorticity anomalies from the asymmetric heating was found to be sensitive to the eddy diffusivity, with large differences between HIGRAD and the widely used WRF model for the exact same value of this uncertain parameter.
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Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science
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$loc['Ph.D. thesis']
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL
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573
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Harris, R. ; Pollman, C. ; Hutchinson, D. ; Landing, W. ; Axelrad, D. ; Morey, S.L. ; Dukhovskoy, D. ; Vijayaraghavan, K.
Title
A screening model analysis of mercury sources, fate and bioaccumulation in the Gulf of Mexico
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2012
Publication
Environmental Research
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Environ Res
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119
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53-63
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Animals ; Calibration ; Environmental Exposure ; Fishes/metabolism ; Humans ; Mercury/*chemistry/metabolism ; *Models, Theoretical ; Seawater/*chemistry ; Water Pollutants, Chemical/*chemistry/metabolism
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A mass balance model of mercury (Hg) cycling and bioaccumulation was applied to the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf), coupled with outputs from hydrodynamic and atmospheric Hg deposition models. The dominant overall source of Hg to the Gulf is the Atlantic Ocean. Gulf waters do not mix fully however, resulting in predicted spatial differences in the relative importance of external Hg sources to Hg levels in water, sediments and biota. Direct atmospheric Hg deposition, riverine inputs, and Atlantic inputs were each predicted to be the most important source of Hg to at least one of the modeled regions in the Gulf. While incomplete, mixing of Gulf waters is predicted to be sufficient that fish Hg levels in any given location are affected by Hg entering other regions of the Gulf. This suggests that a Gulf-wide approach is warranted to reduce Hg loading and elevated Hg concentrations currently observed in some fish species. Basic data to characterize Hg concentrations and cycling in the Gulf are lacking but needed to adequately understand the relationship between Hg sources and fish Hg concentrations.
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Reed Harris Environmental Ltd., 180 Forestwood Drive, Oakville, Ontario L6J4E6, Canada. reed@reed-harris.com
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English
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0013-9351
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PMID:23102631
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COAPS @ mfield @
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234
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Hiester, H.R. ; Morey, S.L. ; Dukhovskoy, D.S. ; Chassignet, E.P. ; Kourafalou, V.H. ; Hu, C.
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A topological approach for quantitative comparisons of ocean model fields to satellite ocean color data
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2016
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Methods in Oceanography
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Methods in Oceanography
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17
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232-250
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Satellite data ; Ocean model ; Ocean color ; Sea surface salinity ; Shape comparison ; Hausdorff distance
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2211-1220
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COAPS @ mfield @
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78
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Hong, S.-Y. ; Park, H. ; Cheong, H.-B. ; Kim, J.-E.E. ; Koo, M.-S. ; Jang, J. ; Ham, S. ; Hwang, S.-O. ; Park, B.-K. ; Chang, E.-C. ; Li, H.
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The Global/Regional Integrated Model system (GRIMs)
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2013
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
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Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci
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49
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2
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219-243
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Numerical weather prediction ; seasonal prediction ; general circulation model ; regional climate modeling ; physics ; parameterization ; climate modeling ; GRIMs ; WRF
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1976-7633
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COAPS @ mfield @
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215
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Kirtman, B. P. ; Misra, V. ; Burgman, R. J. ; Infanti, J. ; Obeysekera, J.
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Florida Climate Variability and Prediction
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$loc['typeBook Chapter']
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2017
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Florida's climate: Changes, variations, & impacts
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511-532
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Multi-model ensembles ; Regional climate prediction ; Dynamical downscaling ; Statistical downscaling
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Florida Climate Institute
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Gainesville, FL
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Chassignet, E. P.; Jones, J. W.; Misra, V.; Obeysekera, J.
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850
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Krishnamurti, T.N. ; Kumar, V. ; Simon, A. ; Bhardwaj, A. ; Ghosh, T. ; Ross, R.
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A review of multimodel superensemble forecasting for weather, seasonal climate, and hurricanes
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$loc['typeJournal Article']
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2016
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Reviews of Geophysics
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Rev. Geophys.
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54
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2
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336-377
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multimodel ; superensemble ; ensemble mean
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COAPS @ mfield @
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83
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