{"id":693,"date":"2019-06-19T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosima.org.au\/?p=693"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T23:17:18","slug":"access-om2-evaluation-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/access-om2-evaluation-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCESS-OM2 Evaluation Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A community paper evaluating the performance of ACCESS-OM2 has been submitted to Geoscientific Model Development (GMD). \u00a0The paper has 30 authors from across the Australian community. GMD has an open review process, so you can <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/gmd-2019-106\">track its progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This paper outlines the performance of ACCESS-OM2 at three different model resolutions, as indicated in the figure below. \u00a0It aims to spell out which versions of the model are suitable for different types of studies, and highlights the performance of the 0.1\u00b0 resolution configuration (referred to as ACCESS-OM2-01).\u00a0The paper shows that ACCESS-OM2\u00a0does a good job of representing many features of the ocean.\u00a0Historical sea ice extent trends are well-represented, and the surface properties and transects in each ocean basin compare well with the observational record.\u00a0The large scale overturning circulation, flow through the Indonesian archipelago and patterns of boundary currents are realistic, supporting the notion that this suite of models is competitive with similar models from other institutions.\u00a0Areas for improvement include the relatively weak barotropic transport in the midlatitude gyres, particularly in the Pacific Ocean, the weaker than observed Drake Passage transport and the weak AMOC in the 1\u00b0 configuration. For full details, feel free to browse the paper!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agulhas_barotropic_streamfunctions-1024x550.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agulhas_barotropic_streamfunctions-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agulhas_barotropic_streamfunctions-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agulhas_barotropic_streamfunctions-768x412.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN\">Kiss, A. E., Hogg, A. McC., Hannah, N., Boeira Dias, F., Brassington, G. B., Chamberlain, M. A., Chapman, C., Dobrohotoff, P., Domingues, C. M., Duran, E. R., England, M. H., Fiedler, R., Griffies, S. M., Heerdegen, A., Heil, P., Holmes, R. M., Klocker, A., Marsland, S. J., Morrison, A. K., Munroe, J., Oke, P. R., Nikurashin, M., Pilo, G. S., Richet, O., Savita, A., Spence, P., Stewart, K. D., Ward, M. L., Wu, F., and Zhang, X.: ACCESS-OM2: A Global Ocean-Sea Ice Model at Three Resolutions, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/gmd-2019-106\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/gmd-2019-106<\/a>, in review, 2019.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community paper evaluating the performance of ACCESS-OM2 has been submitted to Geoscientific Model Development (GMD). \u00a0The paper has 30 authors from across the Australian community. GMD has an open review process, so you can track its progress. This paper outlines the performance of ACCESS-OM2 at three different model resolutions, as indicated in the figure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosima.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}