OFES Analysis

• Literature to read and work to do
• Notes on “The role of eddies in the isopycnic transfer of nutrients and their impact on biological production” by Lee and Williams (2003)
• Notes on “Model-derived estimates of new production: New results point towards lower values” by Oschlies (2001)
• Animation of surface phytoplankton in 1/10th-deg. OFES
• Animation of 0-114-m nutrient in 1/10th-deg. OFES
• Notes on “An eddy-permitting coupled physical-biological model of the North Atlantic. 2. Ecosystem dynamics and comparison with satellite and JGOFS local studies data” by Oschlies et al. (2000)
• Notes on “Nutrient supply to the surface waters of the North Atlantic: A model study” by Oschlies (2002a)
• Notes on “Can eddies make ocean deserts bloom?” by Oschlies (2002b)
• Notes on “A Global Eddy-Resolving Coupled Physical-Biological Model: Physical Influences on a Marine Ecosystem in the North Pacific” by Sasai et al. (2006)
• Seasonal cycle of surface chlorophyll in the North Pacific and Atlantic subtropical gyres
• Notes and questions during A13.5
• The seasonal cycle at station ALOHA in OFES and in the observations
• Animation of 125-175-m nitrate in 1/10th-deg. OFES
• Animation of nitrate and potential density at 150W and 160E between 10N and 40N in 1/10th-deg. OFES
• Pool of nitrate in the North Pacific subtropical gyre in the 1/10th-deg. OFES
• Animation of 120-m nitrate over the entire North Pacific subtropical gyre during 2004 in OFES
• Spatial correlation between nitrate and relative vorticity during 2004 in OFES
• Test of the eSQG routine in OFES for the North Atlantic
• 2004 mean correlation in relative vorticity between OFES and eSQG
• Stratification, variance and snapshots of relative vorticity (model and eSQG) during 2004 at 160E and 140W
• Correlation in relative vorticity between model output and eSQG for the North Equatorial Pacific in OFES
• 2004 mean vertical flux of nitrate in the subtropical North Pacific in OFES
• Test of Hoskins and Bretherton (1972)’s model in the North Pacific subtropical gyre using OFES
• Percentage of area where the relative vorticity changes sign between the surface and depth across the equatorial and North Pacific ocean at 140W in OFES
• Correlation between zeta from model and zeta from eSQG when zeta does not change sign with depth
• Analysis along the isopycnal σ=24.5 kg/m^3 south of the Kuroshio Extension
• Notes from “Eddy Advective and Diffusive Transports of Heat and Salt in the Southern Ocean” by Lee et al. (2007)
• Things to do (05/05/2010)
• Notes on estimating eddy fluxes of tracers
• Notes from “Eddy-driven sources and sinks of nutrients in the upper ocean: Results from a 0.1 deg. resolution model of the North Atlantic” by McGillicuddy et al. (2003)
• Things to do (05/16/2010)
• Analysis of trajectories along the isopycnal σ= 24.5 kg/m^3 in the center of the North Pacific subtropical gyre
• Correlation between nutrient conc. and potential vorticity along the isopycnal σ=24.5 kg/m^3 south of the Kuroshio Extension
• Notes from “Dynamics of the Upper Oceanic Layers in Terms of Surface Quasigeostrophy Theory” by Lapeyre and Klein (2006)
• Some thoughts about tracer evolution
• Notes on the 1/30-of-a-degree OFES simulation
• List of notes to share with Yoshi and Akio
• Summary of literature concerning primary production in subtropycal gyre in observations and models
• Shallow-deep events between 210-220E and 20-25N in 2004 - First analysis
• Percentage of large DA for various categories of SSHA
• Notes from literature concerning the relationship between SSHA and density structure of the ocean
• Comparison between a 1/30 and a 1/10th-of-a-degree OFES snapshot
• The vertical velocity field in the 1/30th and 1/10th-of-a-deg OFES models
• Summary of my recent work (08/19/10)
• Salinity and vertical velocity in the 1/30-of-a-deg OFES snapshot
• Salinity and potential density in the 1/30-th-of-a-deg OFES snapshot
• Study of potential density in the 1/30th-of-a-deg-OFES-snapshot
• Comparison between OFES at Station ALOHA and ARGO float 5145
• Surface and interior mode decomposition - A primeur
• First decompostion into surface and interior mode in OFES
• 10.07.10: Ratio interior surface mode in the North Pacific
• 10.14.10: Understanding the decomposition into surface and interior modes
• 10.19.10: Understanding the decomposition into surface and interior modes - Part 2
• 10.21.10: Decomposition into the surface and interior mode in the Gulf Stream
• 10.22.10: Decomposition into the surface and interior mode in the northeastern Pacific: rms diagnostics
• 10.23.10: Sensitivity of the decomposition to the definition of the surface mixed layer
• Notes on Holopainen and Kaurola (1991)
• 12.02.10: Ratio surface interior mode in the 1/10th and 1/30th deg. OFES simulations
• 12.06.10: Horizontal structure of potential density in the 1/30th and 1/10th deg. OFES simulation
• 12.15.10: Mesoscale and submesoscale structure in the density field in OFES
• 12.20.10: SSH, dynamic height and unresolved SSH in the 1/30th deg. OFES simulation
• 12.20.10: Anomaly in potential temperature, potential density and specific volume at the surface compared to R and w in the 1/30th-deg. OFES simulation
• 12.20.10: some conclusions relative to the anomalous events in density in mixed layer
• 12.24.10: Evolution of potential density at WHOTS location in the 1/10th deg OFES simulation
• 12.28.10: Relationship between nitrate, potential density and SSH in the 1/10th OFES simulation
• 12.29.10: ARGO-like time series of nitrate and potential density in the 1/10th OFES simulation
• 12.30.10: Comparison of spectra in x for potential density and nitrate within the nutricline and east of station ALOHA in various models
• 05.02.12: Nitrate versus depth of an isopycnal