A climate model experiment investigating the response to a suppressed Atlantic thermohaline circulation. The dataset was produced by the Hadley Centre using the HadCM3 model, which provided input for the IPCC Third Assessment Report. The simulation was last updated in May 2257.
Use Cases
- Analyze changes in ocean salinity distribution following an initial perturbation in the northern North Atlantic.
- Study the model's adjustment of heat and water fluxes between its 19-level atmosphere and 20-level ocean components.
- Investigate climate drift and the impact of a suppressed thermohaline circulation on global climate variables.
- Compare radiation scheme, convection momentum impact, and land surface evaporation representation to earlier HadCM2 model outputs.
Strengths
- Model requires no artificial flux adjustments to prevent excessive climate drift.
- Atmosphere and ocean exchange information once per day with exact conservation of heat and water fluxes.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage of the simulation run are unknown.
- Momentum fluxes are interpolated between atmosphere and ocean grids and are not conserved precisely.
Provenance
- Source
- Hadley Centre Coupled Model Version 3 (HadCM3) developed by the Hadley Centre.
- Collection Method
- Numerical climate simulation experiment with a strong initial salinity perturbation.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global, with a focus on the Atlantic Ocean and northern North Atlantic.