Advances in Ocean Models: Uncertainties, Predictive Skills, and Physical-Biological-Biogeochemical Interactions
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 5225
Special Issue Editor
Interests: physical oceanography; ocean modeling; coastal and ocean transport; eddy mixing; physical–biological connectivity; carbon cycling; observational oceanography; marine technology; coastal and ocean mixing; climate change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of ocean circulation models has proceeded rapidly over the last 25 years, with progress being made in three key areas. First, the number and spatial extent of models for predicting transport at estuarine, shelf, basin, and global scales has increased. Second, the horizontal resolution of models has increased sufficiently to resolve eddy mixing. Third, the vertical resolution of models has increased to allow better understanding of vertical exchanges. Curiously, despite these advances, uncertainties in ocean models are rarely quantified, uncertainties are not often compared, and the limits of prediction skills in 4D (space × time) are not always investigated.
In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on established and new implementations of ocean models, with particular attention to the more recent ones, the gains made by increasing the resolution of the models, the predictive skill of alternative models, the mechanistic cause of differences in predictive skill, and efforts to understand physical, biological, and biogeochemical variability with ocean models.
Prof. David Lindo-Atichati
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- New models
- Data Assimilation
- Reanalysis
- Prediction Skill
- Parameterization
- Vertical transport
- Physical-biological interactions
- Physical-biogeochemical interactions
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