Ensemble simulations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) obtained from a quasi-geostrophic model, Q-GCM.

This dataset consists of model outputs from ensemble simulations of an idealised Southern Ocean using a quasi-geotrophic model called Q-GCM. As such, there are no calendar dates associated with it. Two models were generated: Initial Condition Perturbation Ensemble (ICPE) experiments model output covers years 162-168 of the simulation; Boundary Condition Perturbation Ensemble (BCPE) experiments model output covers years 150-180 of the simulation. The models created form the practical element of the NERC project ‘The structure and stability of transport and fixing barriers within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current’. The project aims to quantify the relationship between Southern Ocean winds, the eddy saturation mechanism and the branch-like structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The work was funded by means of a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Discovery Science New Investigators Grant ‘NE/I001794/1’. The grant ran from 02 August 2010 to 21 September 2012 and was led by Dr. Chris Wilson at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The model simulation data were submitted to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for archive and are stored in the originator format.

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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_ACC_model_Q-GCM_Wilson
Date (Publication)
2019-02-13
Date (Creation)
2018-09-14
Date (Revision)
2018-09-14
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http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED6860
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National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool

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British Oceanographic Data Centre

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English
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  • Oceans
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Laptev Sea

SeaVoX water bodies 2018-02-21 revision

Begin date
2010-08-02
End date
2012-09-21
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Publication year: 2011-03-01

Publication title: Rapid Southern Ocean front transitions in an eddy-resolving ocean GCM

Publication authors: Thompson A

Publication editors: Geophysical Research Letters



Publication year: 2014-12-09

Publication title: Forced and intrinsic variability in the response to increased wind stress of an idealized Southern Ocean

Publication authors: Wilson C

Publication editors: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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    British Oceanographic Data Centre

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    This dataset was created by scientists for ‘The structure and stability of transport and mixing barriers within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current’ project, which ran from 2010 to 2012, following their in-house data processing and quality control procedures. The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for ingestion into one of the schemas of the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). During ingestion BODC undertake quality control, documentation and metadata enhancement procedures appropriate to the type of data. For an overview please see http://www.bodc.ac.uk/about/information_technology/data_processing_steps/. BODC supply full information about data collection, data processing and data quality with all data requests to enable users to assess data suitability themselves .

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    Metadata language
    English
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    2019-02-13T06:31:33
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    Version 2.3.8
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    British Oceanographic Data Centre

    Polly Hadžiabdić

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