FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Development of a hydrodynamic model of the Bay of Biscay. Validation of hydrology
BT 
AF LAZURE, Pascal
   GARNIER, Valerie
   DUMAS, Franck
   HERRY, Christelle
   CHIFFLET, Marina
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:2;5:1;
FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED;3:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED;4:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED;5:PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED;
C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Actimar, Quai Douane, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   ACTIMAR, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-DYNECO-PHYSED
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 2.183
TC 75
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/11079/9282.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR PELGAS
DE ;Bay of Biscay;Regional model;Performance assessment
AB The hydrology of the Bay of Biscay was investigated using the regional ocean model MARS3D (Model for Application at Regional Scale). The simulated hydrology is compared to a set of various data encompassing monthly climatology, remote sensing SST CTD casts, and coastal salinity measurements. Special focus was put on the validation over the continental shelf. This paper reports that despite some misfits, the climatological hydrology and its seasonal variability are correctly simulated. Various statistics computed over the period from 1999-2004 highlight different aspects of the hydrology. The biases and root mean square errors (RMSE) remain very weak at all depths when comparing salinity (< 0.1 and < 0.6psu respectively). The predicted temperature shows a global overestimation of temperature (bias of around 0.8 degrees C) and the maximum errors are located near the thermorcline (rmse of 1 degrees C at 20-40 m). The model is shown to properly reproduce the annual dynamics of sea surface temperature, as well as the dynamics of large river plumes observed by high frequency time series from coastal salinity gauges. The misfits highlighted by these various comparisons between model and observations are attributed to heat fluxes and mixing parameterisation.
PY 2009
PD APR
SO Continental Shelf Research
SN 0278-4343
PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd
VL 29
IS 8
UT 000266057100004
BP 985
EP 997
DI 10.1016/j.csr.2008.12.017
ID 11079
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