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These are the intended use-case/justification for one or multiple variable groups. Opportunities are linked to relevant experiment groups. Identifying opportunities helps to provide a structure to map variables against requirements. Each opportunity description will convey why this combination of variables and experiments is important and how they contribute to impact.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| description | One of the majors impact of the global warming are related to coastal regions, due to coastal floodings, coastal erosions, with more than 40% of the world's population living within 150 kilometers of the coast, with more than 108 million people expose to potential inundation with 1m of (Sea-Level Rise). Surface ocean waves has a huge impact in our modern society, from ship routes (Nielsen & Iknomakis, 2021), ports and harbors operations and safety (Nikolaos et. al. 2021), coastal erosion (Pang et al. 2020), and many others. Also wind driven surface gravity waves affects several marine and atmosphere processes like: marine aerosols formations ( Dziembor, 2018), modulation of the air-sea fluxes (Qi et al. , 2024; Wu et al. 2022), tropical cyclones maintenance and decay ( Zhang, et al. 2023), ocean mixing layer depths (Kantha & Clayson, 2004), planetary boundary layer profile and stability (Wu, 2022), among others processes. Estimating the role of the ocean's surface waves in the sea-level rise is under discussion ( Aucan et al., 2019) . Sea-ice also might be affected by ocean waves as well (Alberello et al., 2024; Yang et al., 2024), due to ice and waves interactions, such as wave induced fracturing, lateral and bottom melting (Yang et al., 2024), air-sea-ocean fluxes exchange. General wave parameters (i.e. Significant Wave Height (SWH), Mean Period (MP), Peak Period (PP), mean direction (MD), peak direction (PD)) among partitioned parameters (same but for windsea and swells) are important to better represent all processes listed above. It is nice to mention that the ocean surface wave community has joint efforts to create the COWCLIP (Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project). This project aims to raise the profile of wind-waves as a variable in the global climate system to both foster and support determination of the effects of climate variability and change. on the wave climate and the feedback influence of waves on the coupled earth climate system. |
| expected_impacts | Surface ocean waves variable might have a huge importance at all DECK experiments, DCPP and ScenarioMIP. |
| justification_of_resources | Several modelling centers already have wave models in to their capabilities, coupled or uncoupled. The effects of surface wind waves are important in modulating mean climate but also extreme events over the oceans. |
| lead_theme | Ocean & Sea-Ice |
| minimum_ensemble_size | 1 |
| name | Effects and Feedbacks of Wind-Driven Ocean Surface Waves Coupled Within Earth System Models |
| opportunity_id | 68 |
| data_request_themes | Impacts & Adaptation, Atmosphere, Ocean & Sea-Ice, Earth System |
| experiment_groups | scenarios_extensions, deck, fast-track, scenarios, historical |
| mips | DCPP |
| time_subsets | 80ac3156-a698-11ef-914a-613c0433d878 |
| variable_groups | sfc_waves, baseline_daily, baseline_fixed, baseline_monthly, baseline_subdaily |