Grand Challenges in Ocean and Climate Modelling - STFC's ...

NEMO 1/4° global ocean model surface temperature
Thus a global ocean model of order 1 km horizontal resolution would explicitly
resolve a good part of the internal wave spectrum. The resulting mixing could then
be easily included through (for example) a Richardson number dependent scheme.
Improved parameterisations could also be developed for lower resolution models.
This would be likely to cause a major change in the deep circulation patterns in
the global ocean, and in the upwelling of the deep waters, and in the way in which
the ocean circulation is maintained. Such a model would therefore lead to major
improvements in ocean and climate modelling systems and predictions, and to
our understanding of how the ocean works.