Prospects for improving the representation of coastal and shelf seas in global ocean models

Holt, Jason; Hyder, Patrick; Ashworth, Mike; Harle, James; Hewitt, Helene T.; Liu, Hedong; New, Adrian L.; Pickles, Stephen; Porter, Andrew; Popova, Ekaterina; Allen, J. Icarus; Siddorn, John; Wood, Richard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-499-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-499-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-499-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Development and technical paper

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01 Feb 2017

Development and technical paper |

| 01 Feb 2017

Prospects for improving the representation of coastal and shelf seas in global ocean models

Jason Holt, Patrick Hyder, Mike Ashworth, James Harle, Helene T. Hewitt, Hedong Liu, Adrian L. New, Stephen Pickles, Andrew Porter, Ekaterina Popova, J. Icarus Allen, John Siddorn, and Richard Wood

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RC1: 'comments', Sergey Danilov, 31 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Response to interactive comment by S. Danilov (referee)', Jason Holt, 28 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Prospects for improving the representation of coastal and shelf seas in global ocean models” by Jason Holt et al.', Roger Proctor, 06 Aug 2016
- AC2: 'Response to interactive comment by R. Proctor (referee)', Jason Holt, 28 Sep 2016

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (27 Dec 2016) by Robert Marsh

Short summary

Accurately representing coastal and shelf seas in global ocean models is one of the grand challenges of Earth system science. Here, we explore what the options are for improving this by exploring what the important physical processes are that need to be represented. We use a simple scale analysis to investigate how large the resulting models would need to be. We then compare this with how computer power is increasing to provide estimates of when this might be feasible in the future.