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Variation of sea surface temperature in 1976 and 1977, Pt. 2: Simulation with mixed layer models
| Miyakoda, K., and A. Rosati, 1984: Variation of sea surface temperature in 1976 and 1977, Pt. 2: Simulation with mixed layer models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89(C4), 6533-6542. |
| Abstract: In connection with a study of the extreme weather events over the North
American continent in January 1977, analyses were performed to investigate
characteristic properties of spatial and temporal variations of sea surface
temperature for the years 1976 and 1977 by using the world distribution
of sea surface temperature described in the accompanying paper, Pt. 1. The
time evolutions of ocean temperature patterns for these years are displayed
by latitudinal distribution diagrams of sea surface temperature and by longitude-time
(Hovmoller) diagrams. Gill-Turner's integral model and Mellor-Durbin's turbulence
closure model of the mixed layer were applied to calculate the sea surface
temperature anomaly in the Northern Hemisphere by using realistic atmospheric
forcing. An increase of time variability of the external forcing leads to
an appreciably improved simulation of the sea surface temperature anomaly
fields. Both models gave reasonable predictions for < |