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Rivers

code

number explicit

unguaged, how?

volume or virtual salt?

temperature

total annual

AWI

?

 

salt sink

 

 

GSFC

86

yes, randomly

salt sink

 no

 3800km3/a

 DRAKKAR

 9

continental runoff assigned to coast

 Volume (rain, no lateral flux)

 No

 108 mSv in the Arctic

ICMMG

13

proportionally among 13 rivers

volume

no

3156 km3/a

LANL

14 Arctic, 46 global

no

salt sink

no

2300 km3/a

LU

?

?

salt sink

no

?

NERSC

 

continental runoff assigned to coast

salt sink

no

47000 km3/a

NPS

9

no

salt sink

yes

2012 km3/a

NYU

none

no

restoring

 

 

POL

S restore along coasts

 

volume

no

~1.5 Sv (global)

FEMAO1

8

 yes, proportionally

volume

no

 3156 km3/a,


AOMIP

FEMAO2

8

 

volume

no

 

INMOM

 

 continental runoff assigned to coast

salt sink

 no

 

RCO

19

yes, proportionally

volume

no

3156 km3/a

UCL

global

 

volume

 

 

UW

?

 

salt sink

 

 

DAL

 

 

 

 

 

FSU

 

 

 

 

 

GFDL

 

 

 

 

 

IARC-A

17

uniform along coast

volume

no

4047 km3/a

IARC-B

1 (Mackenzie)

yes, proportionally

volume

no

647 km3/a

ECCO2

global

no

Virtual salt

no

2500km3/y into the Arctic

MIT

 

 

 

 

 

NCAR

 

 

 

 

 

NPI

 

 

 

 

 

UMASD

 

 

 

 

 

NOCS/ORCA25

global, 99 rivers

 

volume

no

1.31 Sv

MCGU

 


 

 

 

 

LOCEAN

8 in the Arctic

 

Virtual salt

no

2160km3/y in the Arctic

IOS

13

yes, separately along american, nordic and siberian coasts

salt sink

no

3156 km3/a

data sources-- AWI: AOMIP GSFC: Pocklington, RasmussonMo P-E data;
LANL: GRDC http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Modelling/ARCTIC/projects/rivers/rivers.html
NPS: P.Becker + Canadian NYU: N/A RAS: AOMIP UW: "AOMIP"

UCL: Milliman and Heade (1983), Russek and Miller (1990), Van Der Leeden, Troise and Todd (1990), Weatherly and Walsh (1996), Jacobs et al. (1992)

IARC-A: Perry et al. (1996)

IARC-B: AOMIP