Poster Presentation AMOS Annual Meeting and International Conference on Tropical Meteorology and Oceanography

Implementation of Stochastic Backscatter Injection in a High-resolution ACCESS Coupled Model (#2019)

Peter Dobrohotoff 1 , Vassili Kitsios 2 , Jorgen Frederiksen 1 , Martin Dix 1
  1. Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, Aspendale, VIC, Australia
  2. Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia

We present new results of the effect of atmospheric stochastic backscatter injection in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) coupled model at high resolution. We demonstrate improvements in the turbulent kinetic energy spectrum in the inertial wavenumber range of the atmosphere and show the impact on the large-scale atmospheric flow. This is the so-called "tail wagging the dog" effect, where injecting stochastic backscatter at high wavenumbers results in lower kinetic energy at low wavenumbers. Previous studies have shown that such improvements in the turbulent kinetic energy spectrum in the inertial range result in more accurate modelling of large-scale phenomena.