Global Barotropic Tide Modeling Using Inline Self-Attraction and Loading in MPAS-Ocean
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Date | 2022-11 | ||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||
Author(s) | Barton Kristin N.1, Pal Nairita2, Brus Steven R.3, Petersen Mark R.2, Arbic Brian K.4, Engwirda Darren2, Roberts Andrew F.2, Westerink Joannes J.5, Wirasaet Damrongsak5, Schindelegger Michael6 | ||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2 : Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA 3 : Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA 4 : Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 5 : Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA 6 : Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
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Source | Journal Of Advances In Modeling Earth Systems (1942-2466) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2022-11 , Vol. 14 , N. 11 , P. e2022MS003207 (19p.) | ||||||||
DOI | 10.1029/2022MS003207 | ||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 5 | ||||||||
Keyword(s) | surface tides, self-attraction and loading, numerical ocean modeling, MPAS-Ocean, barotropic tides, E3SM | ||||||||
Abstract | We examine ocean tides in the barotropic version of the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS-Ocean), the ocean component of the Department of Energy Earth system model. We focus on four factors that affect tidal accuracy: self-attraction and loading (SAL), model resolution, details of the underlying bathymetry, and parameterized topographic wave drag. The SAL term accounts for the tidal loading of Earth's crust and the self-gravitation of the ocean and the load-deformed Earth. A common method for calculating SAL is to decompose mass anomalies into their spherical harmonic constituents. Here, we compare a scalar SAL approximation versus an inline SAL using a fast spherical harmonic transform package. Wave drag accounts for energy lost by breaking internal tides that are produced by barotropic tidal flow over topographic features. We compare a series of successively finer quasi-uniform resolution meshes (62.9, 31.5, 15.7, and 7.87 km) to a variable resolution (45 to 5 km) configuration. We ran MPAS-Ocean in a single-layer barotropic mode forced by five tidal constituents. The 45 to 5 km variable resolution mesh obtained the best total root-mean-square error (5.4 cm) for the deep ocean (> $ > $1,000 m) M2 ${\mathrm{M}}_{2}$ tide compared to TPXO8 and ran twice as fast as the quasi-uniform 8 km mesh, which had an error of 5.8 cm. This error is comparable to those found in other forward (non-assimilative) ocean tide models. In future work, we plan to use MPAS-Ocean to study tidal interactions with other Earth system components, and the tidal response to climate change. |
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