A comparison of the CMIP5 models on the historical simulation of the upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0557-8

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	A comparison of the CMIP5 models on the historical simulation of the upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea
	Wang Gang 1,2; Lin Min 3
刊名	ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA
	2014-11
卷号	33 期号:11 页码:75-84
关键词	South China Sea ocean heat content Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5
ISSN号	0253-505X
DOI	10.1007/s13131-014-0557-8
英文摘要	Seventeen models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) activity are compared on their historical simulation of the South China Sea (SCS) ocean heat content (OHC) in the upper 300 m. Ishii's temperature data, based on the World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD05) and World Ocean Atlas 2005 (WOA05), is used to assess the model performance by comparing the spatial patterns of seasonal OHC anomaly (OHCa) climatology, OHC climatology, monthly OHCa climatology, and interannual variability of OHCa. The spatial patterns in Ishii's data set show that the seasonal SCS OHCa climatology, both in winter and summer, is strongly affected by the wind stress and the current circulations in the SCS and its neighboring areas. However, the CMIP5 models present rather different spatial patterns and only a few models properly capture the dominant features in Ishii's pattern. Among them, GFDL-ESM2G is of the best performance. The SCS OHC climatology in the upper 300 m varies greatly in different models. Most of them are much greater than those calculated from Ishii's data. However, the monthly OHCa climatology in each of the 17 CMIP5 models yields similar variation and magnitude as that in Ishii's. As for the interannual variability, the standard deviations of the OHCa time series in most of the models are somewhat larger than those in Ishii's. The correlation between the interannual time series of Ishii's OHCa and that from each of the 17 models is not satisfactory. Among them, BCC-CSM1.1 has the highest correlation to Ishii's, with a coefficient of about 0.6.
资助项目	Foundation for Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Scientists in Shandong Province of China[BS2011HZ019]
WOS研究方向	Oceanography
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000344583400007
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.fio.com.cn/handle/2SI8HI0U/3760]
专题	业务部门_海洋环境与数值模拟研究室
作者单位	1.State Ocean Adm, Inst Oceanog 1, Key Lab Marine Sci & Numer Modeling MASNUM, Qingdao 266061, Peoples R China; 2.State Ocean Adm, Inst Oceanog 1, Key Lab Data Anal & Applicat, Qingdao 266061, Peoples R China; 3.Ocean Univ China, Dept Math, Qingdao 266100, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Gang,Lin Min. A comparison of the CMIP5 models on the historical simulation of the upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea[J]. ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,2014,33(11):75-84.
APA	Wang Gang,&Lin Min.(2014).A comparison of the CMIP5 models on the historical simulation of the upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea.ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,33(11),75-84.
MLA	Wang Gang,et al."A comparison of the CMIP5 models on the historical simulation of the upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea".ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA 33.11(2014):75-84.