MOM6 Tides Team

Objectives

To improve the representation of ocean tides in coupled MOM6-SIS2 simulations in order to maximize the accuracy with which the barotropic and resolved baroclinic tides are represented and to study the tidally-generated internal wave climate globally, and explicitly resolve tidal interactions with the cryosphere and the mesoscale ocean circulation.

Top Level Tasks

Validate the tidal implementation of MOM6 and cross-check against MITgcm and HYCOM.

Implement inline harmonic analysis to reduce amount of saved data for tide-resolving simulations.

Calibrate existing internal wave drag parameterizations for optimized accuracy of tidal simulations compared to satellite altimetry, surface currents from drifters, and other data.

Develop new parameterizations of internal wave drag to account for the effects of unresolved internal waves on resolved tidal and mesoscale processes.

Create global coupled ocean and sea ice simulations which resolve tides and the atmospherically-driven circulation at a suite of resolutions from 1/12-degree to 1/48-degree.

Share simulations with other NOPP Teams for data interpretation and planning of field programs.