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TI North Atlantic Ocean Internal Decadal Variability: Role of the Mean State and Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling
BT 
AF GASTINEAU, Guillaume
   MIGNOT, Juliette
   ARZEL, Olivier
   HUCK, Thierry
AS 1:1;2:1;3:3;4:2;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;
C1 Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, LOCEAN, IRD,MNHN, Paris, France.
   CNRS, IFREMER, UMR 6523, LOPS,IRD,UBO, Brest, France.
C2 UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
UM LOPS
IF 3.235
TC 18
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00462/57374/59434.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00462/57374/59435.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;climate variability;Atlantic Ocean;atmosphere-ocean general circulation models;air-sea interactions;Atlantic subpolar gyre;Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
AB The origin of the decadal variability in the North Atlantic Ocean is investigated in a series of coupled and ocean-only numerical experiments. Two versions of the IPSL-CM5A model are considered, differing only by their atmospheric horizontal resolution (3.75 degrees x1.87 degrees and 2.5 degrees x1.25 degrees). When the ocean model is forced by the climatological surface fluxes from the low atmospheric resolution coupled model version, a 20-year variability emerges, similar to the variability found in the coupled simulation. Such decadal variability is consistent with a large-scale baroclinic instability of the mean flow in the west European basin. Increasing the atmospheric resolution leads to a more intense Icelandic low, which intensifies the western subpolar gyre, and warms the eastern North Atlantic subpolar gyre region. The mean state changes nearly vanish the associated internal oceanic variability under the corresponding climatological surface fluxes. Increasing the atmospheric resolution also produces a slightly weaker atmospheric stochastic forcing. Both the mean state and atmospheric variability changes are consistent with the decreasing amplitude of the variability in the coupled model. For both model versions, the amplitude of the internal oceanic variability is strongly enhanced in the presence of atmospheric stochastic forcing. Air-sea coupling on the other hand has a moderate influence on the amplitude of the variability only in the low-resolution model version, where the North Atlantic oceanic variability at 20years increases by 23% due to coupling. The coupling effect is therefore modest and sensitive to the atmospheric horizontal resolution. 
PY 2018
PD AUG
SO Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans
SN 2169-9275
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 123
IS 8
UT 000445188900054
BP 5949
EP 5970
DI 10.1029/2018JC014074
ID 57374
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