{"id":3924,"date":"2016-04-21T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:20:56","slug":"impact-of-horizontal-resolution-112-to-150-degree-on-gulf-stream-separation-and-penetration-in-a-series-of-north-atlantic-hycom-numerical-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=3924","title":{"rendered":"Impact of horizontal resolution (1\/12 to 1\/50 degree) on Gulf Stream separation and penetration in a series of North Atlantic HYCOM numerical simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Abstract<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe impact of horizontal resolution (1\/12 to 1\/50 degree) on Gulf Stream separation and penetration is analyzed in a series of identical North Atlantic HYCOM configurations. The specific questions that will be addressed are as follows: When does a solution converge or is &#8220;good enough&#8221;? Are the mesoscale and sub-mesoscale eddy activity representative of interior quasigeostrophic (QG) or surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) turbulence? How well do the simulations compare to observations? We will show that the increase in resolution (1\/50 degree) does lead to a substantial improvement in the Gulf Stream representation (surface and interior) when compared to observations and the results will be discussed in terms of ageostrophic contributions and power spectra.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The impact of horizontal resolution (1\/12 to 1\/50 degree) on Gulf Stream separation and penetration is analyzed in a series of identical North Atlantic HYCOM configurations. The specific questions that will be addressed are as follows: When does a solution converge or is &#8220;good enough&#8221;? Are the mesoscale and sub-mesoscale eddy activity representative of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2016","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}