To test the importance of these factors in initiating MJOs, Maloney and Wolding used a modified version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmospheric Model version 3.1 (CAM3) run
in aquaplanet mode.
The topography (e.g., the Andes) modulates the precipitation patterns so that they are less concentric about the subsolar point than
in the aquaplanet simulations in Merlis and Schneider (2010).
Levine, X. J., and T. Schneider, 2011: Response of the Hadley circulation to climate change
in an aquaplanet GCM coupled to a simple representation of ocean heat transport.
Not exact matches
Alexeev, V.A., P.L. Langen, and J.R. Bates, 2005: Polar amplification of surface warming on an
aquaplanet in «ghost forcing» experiments without sea ice feedbacks.
In the first study, the research team from PNNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory used idealized global model simulations of the
aquaplanet with Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS - A) and Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) to run at low, high and variable resolutions.
This simulation with a comprehensive coupled climate model illustrates and expands upon the dynamics discussed
in the context of an
aquaplanet atmosphere - only model
in Merlis and Schneider (2010).
I've discussed one
aquaplanet study of TCs using a slab ocean, Merlis et al 2013,
in post # 42.
We subject an
aquaplanet GCM to a large array of different spatial patterns and magnitudes of ocean heat transport, and look at how variations
in the transport affect aspects of the time - mean climate.
Ttropical cyclone statistics
in the global
aquaplanet model of Ballinger et al 2015 varying the strength of the surface temperature gradient
in the tropics.
A standard simplification is an
aquaplanet model
in which the surface is uniform and «ocean» covered», ie water - saturated, typically with no seasonal cycle.