Regional and Global Ramifications of Boundary Current Upwelling

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Regional and Global Ramifications of Boundary Current Upwelling Enrique Curchitser Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University Justin Small, Brian Kaufman, Bill Large NCAR Kate Hedstrom U. Alaska Fairbanks Michael Alexander NOAA-ESRL

Outline Background and motivation Methods: A global climate model with a multi-scale ocean Implementations: The California Current System The Benguela Current Summary remarks

Why do we want to “downscale”? Regional impacts: Improved predictions of changes in statistics of regional climate, especially extreme events, are required to assess impacts and adaptation Need to improve representation of weather and climate link Climate model biases: Working hypothesis is that the internal dynamics of the system are more accurately represented at higher resolution Ecosystems: What resolution is needed beyond physics-only considerations?

Why do we need regional models? Temporal and spatial scales of ocean phenomena Upscaling Downscaling Dickey, 1991, 2003

Climate model biases (Model minus Observations of mean SST) (CCSM 3.5 - WOA98) Model- observations (mean SST) Too cold Too warm “Models still show significant errors ... The ultimate source of most is that many important small-scale processes are not represented explicitly in models …” Randal et al., 2007.

Ecosystems: Sardine and Anchovy Temporal and Spatial Variability McCall, 1990 Time series of sardine (red) and anchovy (blue) landings since the 1920’s. Data from Schwartzlose et al. (1999).

Our approach: Tightly coupled climate-to-fishers model Growth Reproduction Mortality Movement Fishing fleet

Aside: Approaches to address the bias problem Higher resolution in the atmosphere--better upwelling favorable winds (Gent et al., 2010) Improvements to boundary layer physics (Park and Bretherton, 2009) Improved resolution and physics in ocean--better upwelling (Curchitser et al. 2011; Curchitser et al. In prep., Small et al., 2015)

Methods: NCAR-CESM POP

Methods: Embedding a high-resolution ocean (ROMS) within NCAR-CESM

Numerical experiments (typical) Baseline: 150 year run of CESM1, branched from 1870 control run. Composite: 150 year run of CESM1-ROMS, same initial conditions. Ocean: POP ~1-degree, 40 Z-levels ROMS 7 km, 50 stretched sigma levels Atmosphere: CAM-5 1o, 0.5o Land: CLM 3 Sea ice: CICE Analysis: 140 years of monthly means. Statistics: T-test for means, F-test for variability

California Current: Local SST response

California Current: Surface fluxes

Global response: Surface air temperature

The Benguela Current System

The Benguela Current System

The Benguela Current System

The Benguela Current System: Shifted winds experiment NRCM-1o NRCM-0.5o NRCM-Shifted winds

Temperature cross sections SST Bias

Benguela: Comparing to observations SST Bias

The Benguela Current System: Remote effects— Restoring Experiments

Back to the California Current: Biogeochemical considerations CO2 outgassing limit CO2 equilibrium limit

Final remarks Upwelling is a coupled phenomena with multiple scales interacting Air-sea feedbacks modulate the response Clouds and coastal atmospheric conditions are important Feedbacks can extend well beyond upwelling region Dynamics of upwelling are different in the various regions (and within a region) Ocean dynamics are important and resolution is not the only “fix” Nesting permits isolating impacts of a given region Ongoing work: Western boundary currents, ensemble projections Don’t wait for global high-resolution!