Ocean-atmosphere simulations of the Eastern Mediterranean using COAMPS TM /NCOM Objectives Simulate Mediterranean and subregional (e.g., Adriatic and Aegean Seas) atmospheric and oceanic circulation at high resolution as a testbed for investigating ocean/atmosphere coupling strategies Document and understand response of marginal seas to forcing by strong winds and river run-off/outflow from adjacent water bodies Aid in planning of field campaigns and employ observational data for model validation and data assimilation Julie Pullen Paul Martin James Doyle Richard Hodur
Outline Model configuration Model forcing Simulations during etesian wind events
Domain Configuration 6 km NCOM 27 km 81 km COAMPS TM Momentum, Heat fluxes
Nesting for Focus on Adriatic Sea 6 km NCOM 27 km 81 km COAMPS TM Momentum, Heat fluxes 36 km 12 km COAMPS TM 4 km 2 km NCOM Momentum, Heat fluxes Initial conditions and lateral boundary forcing
2 km NCOM Aegean Sea nest (Paul Martin)
COAMPS TM / atmosphere MVOI Specifications Features Analysis: multivariate OI of winds and heights (univariate of temperature and moisture) ingests observations from radiosondes, surface observations, aircraft, and satellites Model: Non-hydrostatic, C-grid, sigma vertical coordinate 81/ 27 km, 30 levels grid size of inner nest: 193 x 97 12 hr incremental data assimilation cycle with 24 hr forecast reanalysis has been run for Oct 1998 – June 2002, and is ongoing
NCOM Specifications Features Ocean model based on POM: C-grid, hybrid sigma-z vertical coordinate, options for parametrization of turbulence, order of advection scheme (Paul Martin, NRL-Stennis) forced by hourly COAMPS TM momentum and heat fluxes 6 km, 40 levels (15 sigma levels) grid size: 576 x 288 starting from multi-year spin-up beginning 1999 climatological river discharge from 54 major rivers
NCOM Bathymetry in the Aegean
Simulations (summer 2001) COAMPS Eastern Mediterranean wind COAMPS/NCOM Aegean wind/surface elevation NCOM climatological simulation with BSW