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Low-frequency variability and heat transport in a low-order nonlinear coupled ocean-atmosphere model
Vannitsem, S.; Demaeyer, J.; De Cruz, L.; Ghil, M. (2015). Low-frequency variability and heat transport in a low-order nonlinear coupled ocean-atmosphere model. Physica. D, Nonlinear phenomena 309: 71-85. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2015.07.006
In: Physica. D, Nonlinear phenomena. ISSN 0167-2789; e-ISSN 1872-8022
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Extended-range predictability; Low-frequency variability (LFV);Low-order modeling; Lyapunov instability; Ocean-atmosphere coupling;Slow periodic orbit |
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- Vannitsem, S.
- Demaeyer, J.
- De Cruz, L.
- Ghil, M.
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Abstract |
We formulate and study a low-order nonlinear coupled ocean-atmosphere model with an emphasis on the impact of radiative and heat fluxes and of the frictional coupling between the two components. This model version extends a previous 24-variable version by adding a dynamical equation for the passive advection of temperature in the ocean, together with an energy balance model. The bifurcation analysis and the numerical integration of the model reveal the presence of low-frequency variability (LFV) concentrated on and near a long-periodic, attracting orbit. This orbit combines atmospheric and oceanic modes, and it arises for large values of the meridional gradient of radiative input and of frictional coupling. Chaotic behavior develops around this orbit as it loses its stability; this behavior is still dominated by the LFV on decadal and multi-decadal time scales that is typical of oceanic processes. Atmospheric diagnostics also reveals the presence of predominant low- and high-pressure zones, as well as of a subtropical jet; these features recall realistic climatological properties of the oceanic atmosphere. Finally, a predictability analysis is performed. Once the decadal-scale periodic orbits develop, the coupled system's short-term instabilities - as measured by its Lyapunov exponents - are drastically reduced, indicating the ocean's stabilizing role on the atmospheric dynamics. On decadal time scales, the recurrence of the solution in a certain region of the invariant subspace associated with slow modes displays some extended predictability, as reflected by the oscillatory behavior of the error for the atmospheric variables at long lead times. |
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