THE NCAR CSM OCEAN MODEL


                                       by


                         The NCAR Oceanography Section



                    National Center for Atmospheric Research,1

                                  P.O. Box 3000

                           Boulder, CO  80307  U.S.A.



Preface_



This technical note documents the ocean component of the NCAR Climate System Mo*
 *del.
The ocean code has been developed from the Modular Ocean Model (version 1.1) wh*
 *ich
was developed and maintained at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory *
 *in
Princeton. The person who did the most work to produce and maintain the origina*
 *l GFDL
Ocean Model over a long time was the late Michael Cox.  The oceanographic model*
 *ing
community owes him a large debt because this is still the standard community oc*
 *ean
model. As a tribute to Mike Cox, and because the material is still relevant, th*
 *e first four
sections of this technical note are a straight reproduction from the GFDL Techn*
 *ical Report
that Mike wrote in 1984. The remaining sections document how the NCAR Oceanogra*
 *phy
Section members have developed the MOM 1.1 code, and how it is forced, in order*
 * to
produce the NCAR CSM Ocean Model.



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 *__
    1The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National *
 *Science

Foundation.



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                        Table of Contents



                                                                Pages



A. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  A1-A2

B. Continuous Equations of the Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . .B1-B5

C. Finite Difference Formulation   . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  C1-C9

D. Integral Constraints    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  D1-D5

E. Equation of State    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E1-E5

F. Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies  . . . . . . . . . . . . F1-F6

G. KPP Boundary Layer Mixing Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . .  G1-G6

H. Numerical and Coupling Improvements   . . . . . . . . . . H1-H10



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