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Ronald J Stouffer's Current Research Projects
GFDL's coupled models
- Analysis of GFDL's coupled models (CM2.0 and CM2.1)
Many papers and studies have come out of the CM2.X integrations. A sample includes an assessment of regional climate change over the past 100 years, investiagtion of the thermohaline circulation response to water hosing in the N Atlantic, papers investigating the heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean when Greenhouse gases increase and papers documenting the models.
Development of an Earth System Model
- GFDL is developing a new model that includes a subcomponent model of the carbon cycle. This new model allows interactions between climate and vegetation on land and plants and animals in the oceans. Work on this new model is progressing.
AOGCM and ESM Model Initialization
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One of the major technical problems running coupled ocean-atmosphere models to study climate is their initialization. In general, observed 3-dimensional fields are not available at most point in time with the except of present day. A paper describing a method to obtain 1860 initial conditions is published (Stouffer, Weaver, Eby 2004 Clim. Dyn.)
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Written by: Ronald J Stouffer