Abstract
This paper is Part II of a two-part paper that documents the CM4X
(Climate Model version 4X) hierarchy of coupled climate models developed
at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Part I of this
paper is presented in \citeA{CM4X_partI}. Here we
present a suite of case studies that examine ocean and sea ice features
that are targeted for further research, which include sea level, eastern
boundary upwelling, Arctic and Southern Ocean sea ice, Southern Ocean
circulation, and North Atlantic circulation. The case studies are based
on experiments that follow the protocol of version 6 from the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The analysis reveals a systematic
improvement in the simulation fidelity of CM4X relative to its CM4.0
predecessor, as well as an improvement when refining the ocean/sea ice
horizontal grid spacing from the $0.25^{\circ}$ of
CM4X-p25 to the $0.125^{\circ}$ of CM4X-p125. Even
so, there remain many outstanding biases, thus pointing to the need for
further grid refinements, enhancements to numerical methods, and/or
advances in parameterizations, each of which target long-standing model
biases and limitations.