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| Title: | A High Resolution Free Surface Model of the Mediterranean Sea |
| Authors: | Tonani, M.*
Pinardi, N.*
Dobricic, S.*
Pujol, I.*
Fratianni, C.* |
| Keywords: | numerical model,
Mediterranean Sea |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Title of journal: | Ocean Sciences |
| Series/Report no.: | /4 (2008) |
| Abstract: | This study describes a new model implementation
for the Mediterranean Sea with what is currently the highest
vertical resolution over the Mediterranean basin. The resolution
is of 1/16 ×1/16 in the horizontal and has 72 unevenly
spaced vertical levels. This model has been developed in the
frame of the EU-MFSTEP project and is the operational forecast
model currently used at the basin scale.
The model considers an implicit free surface and this characteristic
enhances the model’s capability to simulate the sea
surface height variability and the net transport at the Strait of
Gibraltar.
In this study we show the calibration/validation experiments
performed before and after the model was used for
forecasting. The first experiment consists of a six-year simulation
forced by a perpetual year forcing, and the other experiment
is a simulation from January 1997 to December 2004,
forcing the model with 6-h atmospheric forcing fields from
ECMWF. The model Sea Level Anomaly has been compared
for the first time with satellite SLA and with ARGO data to
provide evidence of the quality of the simulation.
The results show that this model is capable of reproducing
most of the variability of the general circulation in the
Mediterranean Sea. However, some basic model inadequacies
stand out and should be corrected in the near future. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2122/3798 |
| Appears in Collections: | Papers Published / Papers in press
02.02.10. Instruments and techniques
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