Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Understanding the variability of the Earth's climate is complicated by the mutual interactions that exist between the atmosphere and the oceans of the Earth.The purpose of the research described in this paper is to attempt to understand the rudiments of such interactions by constructing a simple l-D atmosphere-ocean model in order to examine the sensitivity of the equilibrium of a coupled climate "system" to changes in the imposed external forcings.This task is achieved by developing a simple ocean and atmospheric model separately then combining these models to simulate the annual/mean state of the atmosphere and the ocean system.The model atmosphere is based on the theory of radiative transfer and includes a parameterization of convection.The mixed layer ocean model, on the other hand, is constructed using the principles of conservation of thermal energy and turbulent kinetic energy.Independent calculations with the atmospheric model suggests that this model simulates the atmosphere temperature structure realistically.The ocean model, however, had to be modified to obtain reasonable results for annual/mean climatic simulations.2.
Authors: Takmeng Wong, Graeme L. Stephens
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2888941919