Accurate and Computationally Efficient Algorithms for Potential Temperature and Density of Seawater

By Trevor J. McDougall, D. Jackett, D. Wright, Rainer Feistel. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) reference manual: Ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) (2010, methodology): “The parameterization for the vertical diffusivity is related to the turbulent dissipation of internal wave dissipation using the Osborn (1980) relation and depends on the stratification, N .”
Modeling ice shelf cavities in a z coordinate ocean general circulation model (2008, methodology): “Density is computed from a fully non-linear equation of state [ McDougall et al., 2003 ].”
Algorithms for Density, Potential Temperature, Conservative Temperature, and the Freezing Temperature of Seawater (2006, background): “One of the aims of the present work is to update the algorithms of McDougall et al. (2003) for the computation of potential temperature and density of seawater.”
Scales, Growth Rates, and Spectral Fluxes of Baroclinic Instability in the Ocean (2011, methodology): “This model configuration integrates the hydrostatic equations with a fully nonlinear equation of state (Jackett and McDougall 1995; McDougall et al. 2003).”
A Technical Guide to MOM4 (2004, methodology): “2 Morel and Antoine (1994) shortwave penetration model Present modeling work at GFDL (Spring 2003) makes use of a parameterization developed by Morel and Antoine (1994).”
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Ice Response to Variations in the Southern Annular Mode (2006, methodology): “1994) GM parameterization of eddy mixing (Gent and McWilliams 1990) Accurate equation of state (McDougall et al. 2003)”
A Gibbs function for seawater thermodynamics for -6 to 80 °C and salinity up to 120gkg-1 (2008, background): “Inclusion of specific entropy would, for example, allow for an effective and accurate computation of potential temperature and potential density (Bradshaw, 1978; Feistel, 1993), especially in numerical ocean models (McDougall et al., 2003; Jackett et al., 2006).”
A multivariate balance operator for variational ocean data assimilation (2005, methodology): “Density can be computed from potential temperature and salinity using a nonlinear equation of state (e.g., McDougall et al. 2003).”