MED12, OCEANIC COMPONENT FOR THE MODELING OF THE REGIONAL MEDITERRANEAN EARTH SYSTEM

Jonathan Beuvier (1, 2) , Cindy Lebeaupin Brossier (1) , Karine Béranger (3) , Thomas Arsouze (3) , Romain Bourdallé-Badie (2) , Charles Deltel (4) , Yann Drillet (2) , Philippe Drobinski (5) , Nicolas Ferry (2) , Florent Lyard (6) , Florence Sevault (1) , Samuel Somot (1)

1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 Mercator Océan
3 UME - Unité de Mécanique
4 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
5 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
6 ECOLA - Echanges Côte-Large

MED12 is the new regional configuration of the Mediterranean Sea of the ocean general circulation model NEMO. The MED12 grid has been extracted from the 1/12° global operational Mer- cator model. The development of MED12 is made in the continuity of the evolution of the French modeling of the Mediterra- nean Sea, following OPAMED16, OPAMED8 and NEMOMED8. The MED12 model has been developed in the context of the SiMED and MORCE projects, in collaboration with Mercator Ocean teams and na- tional laboratories. Several ongoing projects aim at coupling MED12 with atmospheric models and biogeochemical models. In the following, we present first results obtained with a free ocean simulation and with an ocean-atmosphere coupled simulation.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Ocean, Atmosphere; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Earth Sciences; Oceanography; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]

Jonathan Beuvier, Cindy Lebeaupin Brossier, Karine Béranger, Thomas Arsouze, Romain Bourdallé-Badie, et al.. MED12, OCEANIC COMPONENT FOR THE MODELING OF THE REGIONAL MEDITERRANEAN EARTH SYSTEM. 2012. ⟨hal-01138958⟩