An assessment of the CMIP5 models in simulating the Argo geostrophic meridional transport in the North Pacific Ocean

Xiang LI; Dongliang YUAN

doi:10.1007/s00343-020-0002-0

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An assessment of the CMIP5 models in simulating the Argo geostrophic meridional transport in the North Pacific Ocean

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- An assessment of the CMIP5 models in simulating the Argo geostrophic meridional transport in the North Pacific Ocean
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 38, Issue 5, Pages: 1445-1463(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao), Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Author bio：
  
  YUAN Dongliang, dyuan@qdio.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-020-0002-0
  CLC：
- Received：03 January 2020，
  
  Accepted：14 April 2020，
  
  Online First：22 July 2020，
  
  Published：2020-09
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Xiang LI, Dongliang YUAN. An assessment of the CMIP5 models in simulating the Argo geostrophic meridional transport in the North Pacific Ocean[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(5): 1445-1463.
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Xiang LI, Dongliang YUAN. An assessment of the CMIP5 models in simulating the Argo geostrophic meridional transport in the North Pacific Ocean[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(5): 1445-1463. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-020-0002-0.

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Eleven climate system models that participate in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) were evaluated based on an assessment of their simulated meridional transports in comparison with the Sverdrup transports. The analyses show that the simulated North Pacific Ocean circulation is essentially in Sverdrup balance in most of the 11 models while the Argo geostrophic meridional transports indicate significant non-Sverdrup gyre circulation in the tropical North Pacific Ocean. The climate models overestimated the observed tropical and subtropical volume transports significantly. The non-Sverdrup gyre circulation leads to non-Sverdrup heat and salt transports

the absence of which in the CMIP5 simulations suggests deficiencies of the CMIP5 model dynamics in simulating the realistic meridional volume

heat

and salt transports of the ocean.

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