GFDL High-Res Ocean Simulation

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This figure appears in the Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Year 2012 report.

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory High-Resolution Ocean Simulation. High-resolution ocean simulation running inside the coupled GFDL CM 2.6 model. Higher resolution in the ocean allows for the simulation of mesoscale and smaller eddies and structure in the ocean circulation.

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