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General
Properties of Model Simulations
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Domain
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Atlantic
Ocean basin, 20S to 62N
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Resolution:
2 degrees horizontal, 22 layers vertical
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Forcing
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Climatological
annual cycle forcing derived from COADS
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Driven
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humidity,
precipitation, longwave and shortwave surface radiation
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Model
runs and analysis
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25-year
spinup from zonally-averaged climatology [p(lat)] derived
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from
Levitus climatology
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One-year
and five-year analysis runs with fields archived monthly
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Analyze
year 26, winter (Feb.) and summer (Aug.)
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Analyze
5-year time series, years 26-30
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Minimum
layer thickness in the z-coordinate domain set to 10 m for all
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