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The Indian summer monsoon in MetUM-GOML2.0: effects of air–sea coupling and resolution

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Peatman, S. C. and Klingaman, N. P. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303 (2018) The Indian summer monsoon in MetUM-GOML2.0: effects of air–sea coupling and resolution. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (11). pp. 4693-4709. ISSN 1991-9603 doi: 10.5194/gmd-11-4693-2018

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The fidelity of the simulated Indian summer monsoon is analysed in the UK Met Office Unified Model Global Ocean Mixed Layer configuration (MetUM-GOML2.0) in terms of its boreal summer mean state and propagation of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO). The model produces substantial biases in mean June–September precipitation, especially over India, in common with other MetUM configurations. Using a correction technique to constrain the mean seasonal cycle of ocean temperature and salinity, the effects of regional air–sea coupling and atmospheric horizontal resolution are investigated. Introducing coupling in the Indian Ocean degrades the atmospheric basic state compared with prescribing the observed seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature (SST). This degradation of the mean state is attributable to small errors (±0.5°C) in mean SST. Coupling slightly improves some aspects of the simulation of northward BSISO propagation over the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and India, but degrades others. Increasing resolution from 200 to 90km grid spacing (approximate value at the Equator) improves the atmospheric mean state, but increasing resolution again to 40km offers no substantial improvement. The improvement to intraseasonal propagation at finer resolution is similar to that due to coupling.

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Refereed Yes
Divisions Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS
Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher European Geosciences Union
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