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DOI	10.1007/s00382-018-4236-x
	Impact of air-sea drag coefficient for latent heat flux on large scale climate in coupled and atmosphere stand-alone simulations
	Torres O.; Braconnot P.; Marti O.; Gential L.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0930-7575
起始页码	2125
结束页码	2144
卷号	52 期号:2020-03-04
英文摘要	The turbulent fluxes across the ocean/atmosphere interface represent one of the principal driving forces of the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation. Despite decades of effort and improvements, representation of these fluxes still presents a challenge due to the small-scale acting turbulent processes compared to the resolved scales of the models. Beyond this subgrid parameterization issue, a comprehensive understanding of the impact of air-sea interactions on the climate system is still lacking. In this paper we investigates the large-scale impacts of the transfer coefficient used to compute turbulent heat fluxes with the IPSL-CM4 climate model in which the surface bulk formula is modified. Analyzing both atmosphere and coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation model (AGCM, OAGCM) simulations allows us to study the direct effect and the mechanisms of adjustment to this modification. We focus on the representation of latent heat flux in the tropics. We show that the heat transfer coefficients are highly similar for a given parameterization between AGCM and OAGCM simulations. Although the same areas are impacted in both kind of simulations, the differences in surface heat fluxes are substantial. A regional modification of heat transfer coefficient has more impact than uniform modification in AGCM simulations while in OAGCM simulations, the opposite is observed. By studying the global energetics and the atmospheric circulation response to the modification, we highlight the role of the ocean in dampening a large part of the disturbance. Modification of the heat exchange coefficient modifies the way the coupled system works due to the link between atmospheric circulation and SST, and the different feedbacks between ocean and atmosphere. The adjustment that takes place implies a balance of net incoming solar radiation that is the same in all simulations. As there is no change in model physics other than drag coefficient, we obtain similar latent heat flux between coupled simulations with different atmospheric circulations. Finally, we analyze the impact of model tuning and show that it can offset part of the feedbacks. © 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
英文关键词	Atmospheric heat transport; Bulk parameterization; Climate simulations; Latent heat flux; Ocean–atmosphere coupling; Sensitivity tests
语种	英语
scopus关键词	atmosphere-ocean coupling; atmospheric circulation; climate modeling; drag coefficient; general circulation model; heat transfer; latent heat flux; parameterization; sea surface temperature
来源期刊	Climate Dynamics
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146546
作者单位	Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France; Weathernews France SAS, 79 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris, 75009, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Torres O.,Braconnot P.,Marti O.,et al. Impact of air-sea drag coefficient for latent heat flux on large scale climate in coupled and atmosphere stand-alone simulations[J],2019,52(2020-03-04).
APA	Torres O.,Braconnot P.,Marti O.,&Gential L..(2019).Impact of air-sea drag coefficient for latent heat flux on large scale climate in coupled and atmosphere stand-alone simulations.Climate Dynamics,52(2020-03-04).
MLA	Torres O.,et al."Impact of air-sea drag coefficient for latent heat flux on large scale climate in coupled and atmosphere stand-alone simulations".Climate Dynamics 52.2020-03-04(2019).