Oxygen minimum zones in the tropical Pacific across CMIP5 models: mean state differences and climate change trends

Cabré, A.; Marinov, I.; Bernardello, R.; Bianchi, D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5429-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5429-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Special issue:

Low oxygen environments in marine, fresh and estuarine...

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5429-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 18

Research article

|

21 Sep 2015

Research article |

| 21 Sep 2015

Oxygen minimum zones in the tropical Pacific across CMIP5 models: mean state differences and climate change trends

A. Cabré, I. Marinov, R. Bernardello, and D. Bianchi

Download

Final revised paper (published on 21 Sep 2015)
Supplement to the final revised paper
Preprint (discussion started on 30 Apr 2015)
Supplement to the preprint

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC C2516: 'Review 'Oxygen Minimum Zones in the tropical Pacific across CMIP5 models: Mean state differences and climate change trends' (Cabre et al.)', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 May 2015
RC C3821: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 Jul 2015
AC C4498: 'Answer to Referee # 1', Anna Cabre, 20 Aug 2015
AC C4499: 'Answer to Referee # 2', Anna Cabre, 20 Aug 2015
AC C4500: 'New draft with updated answers to Referee #1 and #2', Anna Cabre, 20 Aug 2015
AC C4501: 'New supplementary figures', Anna Cabre, 20 Aug 2015

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (02 Sep 2015) by Véronique Garçon

Both referees gave back their comments on your manuscript. I think you have addressed them all quite adequately. However a few minor points/typos remain to be cleared up before publication. Please find them listed below. The numbers of pages refer to your revised version: New draft with updated answers to both Referees (version August 20, 2015).

I would like to congratulate you since I think our “OMZ community” was waiting for such a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of Earth System Models performance assessment on representing oceanic oxygen dynamics, now and in the future. Well done!

Page 2 Lines 13-14: … the specific survival and performance of organisms also depends on the species…. should be: the specific survival and performance of organisms also depend on the species…

Page 2 Line 20:…. is the larger of the two OMZs should be : is the largest of the two OMZs…

Page 6 Line 28: …. A majority of the models join the northern and southern OMZ regions should be …. A majority of the models joins the northern and southern OMZ regions

Page 8 line 26: The rest of models have…should be The rest of models has….

Page 9 line 26 : Montes et al. (2014) show the crucial role of the secondary Tsuchiya jets should be : Montes et al. (2014) show the crucial role of the secondary Tsuchiya jet …. (only one secondary jet)
Maybe here you should on line 3 same page 9 use SSCC instead of SCC for both Tsuchiya jets (primary and secondary) for consistency and clarity

Page 15 lines 20-23: this comment about the CESM1-BGC model is puzzling…how is nitrogen mass conserved there? Can you provide an explanation?

Page 19 lines 12-13: Additionally, warming and freshening in the formation zones of mode and intermediate water masses (Sallee et al., 2013a) results …. should be : Additionally, warming and freshening in the formation zones of mode and intermediate water masses (Sallee et al., 2013a) result ….

Page 19 lines 16-17: Meijers et al. (2014) provides a complete review of water masses transformation under climate change across CMIP5 models…. Should be : Meijers et al. (2014) provide a complete review of water masses transformation under climate change across CMIP5 models…

Figure 1: some clear orange lines and dashed lines appear between 150°E and 160°E on panels c) and d), what are they?

Hide

AR by Anna Cabre on behalf of the Authors (03 Sep 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Download

Article (10632 KB)
Full-text XML

Short summary

We analyze simulations of the Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) from 11 Earth system model contributions to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5, focusing on the mean state, climate change projections, and interannual variability. We analyse biases with respect to observations and consistency of results across simulations.