Table 1.

An Overview of the Radiant Heating Parameterizations Used by Most Ocean Models in CMIP6 Along With the Original Sources of Both the Underwater Attenuation Coefficients and the Partitioning of the Incident Solar Spectrum

Model family	Radiant heating parameterization	Derived from		Reference
		Attenuation	Partitioning
MOM	M05	M88	PS77	Griffies (2012)
FESOM	S05	MA94	MA94	Wang et al. (2014)
NEMO	L07	MM01	PS77	Madec et al. (2023)
LICOM	O03	GM83 + M91	SBDART	Lin et al. (2020)
POP	O03	GM83 + M91	SBDART	R. Smith et al. (2010)
MPAS‐Ocean	OS00	GM83 + M91	SBDART	Petersen et al. (2018)
HYCOM Ocean	PS77	PS77	PS77	Wallcraft et al. (2009)
SIT	PS81	PS81	PS81	Lan et al. (2022)
COCO	PS77	PS77	PS77	Hasumi (2015)
MRI.COM	MA94	MA94	MA94	Sakamoto et al. (2023)

Note. PS77: Paulson and Simpson (1977); PS81: Paulson and Simpson (1981); GM83: Gordon and Morel (1983); M88: Morel (1988); M91: Morel (1991); MA94: Morel and Antoine (1994); OS00: Ohlmann and Siegel (2000); MM01: Morel and Maritorena (2001); O03: Ohlmann (2003); M05: Manniza et al. (2005); S05: Sweeney et al. (2005); L07: Lengaigne et al. (2007).