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29 Aug 2023
Research article |
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Regional modeling of internal-tide dynamics around New Caledonia – Part 1: Coherent internal-tide characteristics and sea surface height signature
Arne Bendinger
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse, France
Sophie Cravatte
Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse, France
IRD, Centre IRD de Nouméa, New Caledonia
Lionel Gourdeau
Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse, France
Laurent Brodeau
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France
now at: DATLAS, Grenoble, France
Aurélie Albert
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Grenoble, France
Michel Tchilibou
Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse, France
now at: CLS, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Florent Lyard
Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UPS), Toulouse, France
Clément Vic
Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Plouzané, France
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Ocean and climate scientists have used numerical simulations as a tool to examine the ocean and climate system since the 1970s. Since then, owing to the continuous increase in computational power and advances in numerical methods, we have been able to simulate increasing complex phenomena. However, the fidelity of the simulations in representing the phenomena remains a core issue in the ocean science community. Here we propose a cloud-based framework to inter-compare and assess such simulations.
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067–4119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021, 2021
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The EUREC4A field campaign, designed to test hypothesized mechanisms by which clouds respond to warming and benchmark next-generation Earth-system models, is presented. EUREC4A comprised roughly 5 weeks of measurements in the downstream winter trades of the North Atlantic – eastward and southeastward of Barbados. It was the first campaign that attempted to characterize the full range of processes and scales influencing trade wind clouds.
Sophie Cravatte, Guillaume Serazin, Thierry Penduff, and Christophe Menkes
Ocean Sci., 17, 487–507, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-487-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-487-2021, 2021
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The various currents in the southwestern Pacific Ocean contribute to the redistribution of waters from the subtropical gyre equatorward and poleward. The drivers of their interannual variability are not completely understood but are usually thought to be related to well-known climate modes of variability. Here, we suggest that oceanic chaotic variability alone, which is by definition unpredictable, explains the majority of this interannual variability south of 20° S.
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Short summary
New Caledonia is a hot spot of internal-tide generation due to complex bathymetry. Regional modeling quantifies the coherent internal tide and shows that most energy is converted in shallow waters and on very steep slopes. The region is a challenge for observability of balanced dynamics due to strong internal-tide sea surface height (SSH) signatures at similar wavelengths. Correcting the SSH for the coherent internal tide may increase the observability of balanced motion to < 100 km.
New Caledonia is a hot spot of internal-tide generation due to complex bathymetry. Regional...
