NOAA-EMC/DATM-MOM6-CICE5

new bulk formula

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hyunchul386 commented
  • Current bulk formula in NEMS mediator has been used for fluxes over the sea ice.
    For solving the SST increasing issue CFSR/GEFS fluxes with DATM-MOM6-CICE5,
    it is needed to use the bulk formula over the ocean as well as the ice.
  • The issue is that the current bulk formula is using surface wind velocities, temperature, and humidity as inputs
    and estimates 10 m height fields.
  • DATM_input of CFSR/GEFS have the 10m wind velocity, 2mT, and 2mQ, which can be used in the bulk formula
  • The new bulk formula module will use the DATM inputs directly, instead of the estimation, and be applied over the whole ocean and ice.
JessicaMeixner-NOAA commented

Out of curiosity, why are you using bulk over ice? Do you not have all the inputs the ice model is otherwise asking for?

hyunchul386 commented

Indeed, NEMS mediator has used bulk formula over the ice as default, I guess that the ice cover is different CFSR/GEFS from the DATM-MOM6-CICE5, which can induce lot of issues over the mismatch, and bulk formula over the sea ice would be reduce the issue.

DeniseWorthen commented

CICE obtains the height-lowest values from the atm and uses essentially the same formulas used in the mediator_methods to calculate the fluxes over the ice: ice_atmo.F90 #L72

hyunchul386 commented

I am checking the impacts of changes from the current bulk formula to the new bulk formula.
In CFSR forcing there is big difference
taux-45s

taux along 45S in 2011-10-01 from CFSR (green, 00Z), the new bulk form (black, 03Z) and the current bulk (red, 03Z).
It is shown the the new bulk formula is more realistic than the current one.

hyunchul386 commented

In GEFS forcing, the current bulk formula and the new one show the similar pattern.

taux_45s_gefs
taux along 45S in 2011-10-01 from GEFS (green, 00Z), the new bulk form (black, 03Z) and the current bulk (red, 03Z).

hyunchul386 commented

  • As shown, the taux of the current bulk formula from CFSR forcing is severely underestimated, but the one of the current bulk from GEFS forcing is comparable with one of new bulk formula.

  • The new bulk formula uses 10mU/V for calculation of wind stress. In the current bulk formula, the lowestlevel U/V are input from CFSR/GEFS, and 10mU/V are estimated from the lowestlevel U/V.

  • the lowestlevel U/V of GEFS and CFSR is different
    UGRD_HYBLEV1
    UGRD_HYBLEV1 along 45S in 2011-10-01 from GEFS (black) and CFSR (red)

  • the new bulk formula consistently provides realistic taux, and the current bulk formula has strong dependency of the lowest level data type, like CFSR.