Aspects of coupling atmosphere and ocean models

This report contains a collection of 5 papers on special aspects of coupling of ocean and atmosphere models. The flux correction method is studied in several applications. With each paper representing an individual publication, an overlap with reference to the description of the models and the basic idea of the flux correction method not be avoided. The flux correction method is tested in a simple box-model for the cyclo-stationary case and the quasi-stationary case with stochastic forcing (Paper 1). Paper 2 describes an extension of the flux correction method to such cases, where the model is neither stationary, cyclostationary nor quasi-stationary. In Paper 3, the climate drift of coupled models and its removal is illustrated by means of a potential. The flux correction was successfully applied to the coupling of a global atmosphere general circulation model with a global ocean general circulation model (Paper 4). Finally, Paper 5 gives instructions on how to apply the flux correction method and discusses approximations that can be made. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekCommission of the European Communities (CEC), Brussels (Belgium); Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Hamburg (Germany)DEGerman