The essential requirement for ocean climate models, in coupled applications, is simply that they produce realistic sea surface temperatures, for historical climate and future scenarios. Working to more faithfully satisfy this simple requirement, of course, one finds an entire community of ocean modelers to complement the community of atmospheric modelers better represented at this meeting.
I will briefly survey some of the ocean modeling issues of broader relevance to climate scientists, touching on errors of a numerical nature, and on errors associated with the set of processes we choose to resolve or parameterize.
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