GABLS


Stockholm University.- Group 2


SU-2

Scientists: Thorsten Mauritsen, Sergej Zilitinkevich, Leif Enger, Branko Grisogono, Gunilla Svensson

Turbulence Model: 1.5 order including the temperature variance. Similar to Mellor & Yamada level 3. Can be reduced to 1 or 1.5 order.

Closure:Energy similarity assumption relating fluxes to turbulent quantities. The turbulent length scale is limited by the distance from the wall, shear and stratification. In the future third order flux divergence due to gravity waves will be included

Uses: Under development. So far testing is done in the scientific Uppsala meso-scale model (MIUU). If promising it will be incorporated into US Navy COAMPS model and tested under the Arctic model intercomparison (ARCMIP) framework.

Reference: In the process of writing

Tests: no