North Atlantic Ocean

Temperature of the water column

This dataset consists of MIT General Circulation Model runs of passive and temperature tracers in an idealized configuration of the North Atlantic Ocean for the Not All Ocean Transport Changes Are Created Equal (OHTVAR) project. Model simulations were run between 2017 and 2022. Using an idealized configuration of the North Atlantic Ocean, passive tracers and temperature tracers were released at key locations and their transport studied using model diagnostics. Initialization parameters included continuous equation parameters, elliptic solver parameters, time stepping parameters, gridding parameters, and input datasets. High spatial resolution eddy-resolving (1/10 degree) was made use of along with K-profile parameterization (KPP) to solve mixing processes. The aim of model outputs were to investigate the physical mechanisms linking heat content in the ocean interior to sea surface temperature anomalies. This work was undertaken by Dr. David Ferreira and Dr. Lilia Flores Mateos from the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, under NERC grant reference NE/P002250/1.