Sensitivity of Global Ocean Climate Simulations to Upper-Ocean Mixing Parameterizations: Analysis Using Level-Coordinate Mixed Layer Models

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9415911 Halliwell Presently, the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM) have limited capabilities because mixing, which depends strongly on depth dependent physical processes within the mixed layer, must be governed by a simple bulk parameterization of the important terms of the vertically integrated TKE balance; these parameterized terms contain poorly-known coefficients. This project will solve this problem because it will cap the MICOM with a level coordinate mixed layer model capable of explicitly resolving depth-dependent physical processes within the mixed layer. The long term goal of the project is to perform eddy-resolving global simulations on a massively parallel computer.