FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Global heat balance and heat uptake in potential temperature coordinates
BT 
AF Hochet, Antoine
   Tailleux, Rémi
   Kuhlbrodt, Till
   Ferreira, David
AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:2;
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C1 CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS, UMR 6523), Univ of Brest, IUEM, Brest, France
   Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
C2 CNRS, FRANCE
   UNIV READING, UK
UM LOPS
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   copubli-europe
IF 4.901
TC 0
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00700/81211/85455.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Heat uptake;Simple Climate Model
AB The representation of ocean heat uptake in Simple Climate Models used for policy advice on climate change mitigation strategies is often based on variants of the one-dimensional Vertical Advection/Diffusion equation (VAD) for some averaged form of potential temperature. In such models, the effective advection and turbulent diffusion are usually tuned to emulate the behaviour of a given target climate model. However, because the statistical nature of such a “behavioural” calibration usually obscures the exact dependence of the effective diffusion and advection on the actual physical processes responsible for ocean heat uptake, it is difficult to understand its limitations and how to go about improving VADs. This paper proposes a physical calibration of the VAD that aims to provide explicit traceability of effective diffusion and advection to the processes responsible for ocean heat uptake. This construction relies on the coarse-graining of the full three-dimensional advection diffusion for potential temperature using potential temperature coordinates. The main advantage of this formulation is that the temporal evolution of the reference temperature profile is entirely due to the competition between effective diffusivity that is always positive definite, and the water mass transformation taking place at the surface, as in classical water mass analyses literature. These quantities are evaluated in numerical simulations of present day climate and global warming experiments. In this framework, the heat uptake in the global warming experiment is attributed to the increase of surface heat flux at low latitudes, its decrease at high latitudes and to the redistribution of heat toward cold temperatures made by diffusive flux. 
PY 2021
PD OCT
SO Climate Dynamics
SN 0930-7575
PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC
VL 57
IS 7-8
UT 000661070400003
BP 2021
EP 2035
DI 10.1007/s00382-021-05832-7
ID 81211
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