Pseudo-global warming projections of extreme wave storms in complex coastal regions: the case of the Adriatic Sea

Denamiel, Cléa; Pranić, Petra; Quentin, Florent; Mihanović, Hrvoje; Vilibić, Ivica

doi:10.1007/s00382-020-05397-x

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“…At the end, a total of 22 events, spanning from 1991 to 2018 and considered representative of severe bora conditions in the northern Adriatic-despite not encompassing all documented severe events-were selected for the ensemble. The references used to select these events can be found in Denamiel et al (2020a) and their associated maximum wind gusts recorded at different locations in the Adriatic are presented in Table 2.…”

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Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency of Atmospheric Models in the Northern Adriatic During Severe Bora Events

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In process‐oriented studies, accurate representation of severe bora rotor dynamics in the northern Adriatic is known to require the use of model resolutions of the order of 100 m. In regional climate studies, computation time and numerical cost are, however, minimized with resolutions of the order of 10 km. The latter is not accurate enough to drive the coastal dense water formation and the long‐term Adriatic‐Ionian thermohaline circulation resulting from these events. This work leverages the capacity of kilometer‐scale atmospheric models to balance accuracy and efficiency in coupled atmosphere‐ocean climate studies in the Adriatic Sea. The sensitivity of severe bora dynamics and air‐sea interactions to atmospheric model resolution is thus tested within the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) modeling suite as well as with the best available reanalysis. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 15‐km, 3‐km, and 1.5‐km resolution, and ERA5 at 30‐km resolution, are compared for an ensemble of 22 severe bora storms spanning between 1991 and 2019. It is found that (1) ERA5 reanalysis and WRF 15‐km model highly diverge (up to 43% for the wind speed) from WRF 3‐km results while (2) WRF 3‐km conditions converge toward the WRF 1.5‐km solution for both basic bora dynamics (differences below 6% for the wind speed) and air‐sea interactions (differences 5 times smaller than with WRF 15‐km results). Consequently, kilometer‐scale atmospheric models should be used to reproduce properly the dense water formation during severe bora events and the long‐term thermohaline circulation of the Adriatic‐Ionian basin.

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Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency of Atmospheric Models in the Northern Adriatic During Severe Bora Events

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“…The evaluation run covering the 1987-2017 period is partially presented in this study. The far-future runs (2070-2100 period) are derived with the Pseudo-Global Warming (PGW) methodology recently extended to coupled atmosphere-ocean models (Denamiel et al, 2020a) and tested for an ensemble of short-term extreme events in the Adriatic Sea (Denamiel et al, 2020a(Denamiel et al, , 2020b. In this climate configuration (Table 1) Mediterranean basin.…”

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“…Furthermore, for climate projections, the pseudo-global warming (PGW) downscaling method (Schär et al, 1996) was proven to greatly improve the future projections of precipitations and convective storms in atmospheric kilometre-scale climate models (Prein et al, 2015). Consequently, this method was first extended to coupled atmosphere-ocean models, then implemented in the AdriSC climate component, and finally tested successfully with an ensemble of short-term climate simulations for wind-driven extreme events in the Adriatic Sea (Denamiel et al, 2020a(Denamiel et al, , 2020b). The need to use kilometre-scale models during severe bora events for proper representation of the Adriatic long-term thermohaline circulation was also demonstrated (Denamiel et al, 2021).…”

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Performance of the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) climate component – a COAWST V3.3-based coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling suite: atmospheric part

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Abstract. In this evaluation study, the coupled atmosphere-ocean Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) climate model, which was implemented to carry out 31-year long evaluation and climate projection simulations in the Adriatic and northern Ionian seas, is briefly presented. The kilometre-scale AdriSC atmospheric results, derived with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) 3-km model for the 1987–2017 period, are then thoroughly compared to a comprehensive publicly and freely available observational dataset. The evaluation shows that overall, except for the summer surface temperatures which are systematically underestimated, the AdriSC WRF 3-km model has a far better capacity to reproduce the surface climate variables (and particularly the rain) than the WRF regional climate models at 0.11° of resolution. In addition, several spurious data have been found in both gridded products and in situ measurements which thus should be used with care in the Adriatic region for climate studies at local and regional scales. Long-term simulations with the AdriSC climate model, which couples the WRF 3-km model with a 1-km ocean model, might thus be a new avenue to substantially improve the reproduction, at the climate scale, of the Adriatic Sea dynamics driving the Eastern Mediterranean thermohaline circulation. As such it may also provide new standards for climate studies of orographically-developed coastal regions in general.

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“…2070-2100 period) with the AdriSC long-term projections under climate change scenarios following the Pseudo-Global Warming (PGW; Schär et al, 1996) method. This method has already been tested successfully with the AdriSC model for an ensemble of short-term extreme events in the Adriatic Sea (Denamiel et al, 2020a(Denamiel et al, , 2020b. Therefore, the AdriSC climate simulations are expected to broaden the knowledge about the dynamics of the Adriatic-Ionian region.…”

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“…In the last decade, other studies have also used kilometer-scale limited-area models to simulate ocean processes driven by extreme conditions in the Adriatic Sea including, for example, extreme waves and storm surges as well as sea surface cooling, water column mixing, dense water formation and long-term thermohaline circulation occurring during severe bora and sirocco windstorms (e.g. Cavaleri et al, 2010Cavaleri et al, , 2018Ricchi et al, 2016;Denamiel et al, 2020a). However, aside from the atmospheric forcing, other sources of errors have been documented to influence the quality of the Adriatic numerical modelling such as the representation of the river discharges and the choice of the open boundary conditions.…”

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Performance of the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) climate component – a COAWST V3.3-based coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling suite: ocean part

Pranić¹,

Denamiel²,

Vilibić³

2021

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Abstract. In this study, the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) kilometre-scale atmosphere-ocean climate model covering the Adriatic and northern Ionian Seas is presented. The AdriSC ocean results of a 31-year long (i.e. 1987–2017) climate simulation, derived with the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 3-km and 1-km models, are evaluated with respect to a comprehensive collection of remote-sensing and in situ observational data. In general, it is found that the AdriSC model is capable to reproduce the observed sea-surface properties, daily temperatures and salinities and the hourly ocean currents with good accuracy. In particular, the AdriSC ROMS 3-km model demonstrates skill in reproducing the main variabilities of the sea-surface height as well as the sea-surface temperature, despite a persistent negative bias within the Adriatic Sea. Furthermore, the AdriSC ROMS 1-km model is found to be more capable to reproduce the observed thermohaline and dynamical properties than the AdriSC ROMS 3-km model. For the temperature and salinity, better results are obtained in the deeper parts than in the shallow shelf and coastal parts, particularly for the surface layer of the Adriatic Sea. The AdriSC ROMS 1-km model is also found to perform well in reproducing the seasonal thermohaline properties of the water masses over the entire Adriatic-Ionian domain. The evaluation of the modelled ocean currents revealed better results at locations along the eastern coast and especially the north-eastern shelf than in the middle-eastern coastal area and the deepest part of the Adriatic Sea. Finally, the AdriSC climate component is found to be a more suitable modelling framework to study the dense water formation and long-term thermohaline circulation of the Adriatic-Ionian basin than the available Mediterranean regional climate models.

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Pseudo-global warming projections of extreme wave storms in complex coastal regions: the case of the Adriatic Sea

Cited by 36 publications

References 86 publications

Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency of Atmospheric Models in the Northern Adriatic During Severe Bora Events

Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency of Atmospheric Models in the Northern Adriatic During Severe Bora Events

Performance of the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) climate component – a COAWST V3.3-based coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling suite: atmospheric part

Performance of the Adriatic Sea and Coast (AdriSC) climate component – a COAWST V3.3-based coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling suite: ocean part

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