Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-499-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-499-2017
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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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.