Abstract: POLYMODE data is used to produce a new analysis of multilevel streamfunctions in a (500 km)2 domain during July 1977?August 1978. The analysis is used to define initial and lateral boundary conditions, and verification ...

Abstract: This paper examines nine analyses of global ocean 0-/700-m temperature and heat content during the 43-yr period of warming, 1960?2002. Among the analyses are two that are independent of any numerical model, six that rely ...

Abstract: Climate variability in the tropical Atlantic sector as represented in six atmospheric general circulation models is examined. On the annual mean, most simulations overestimate wind stress away from the equator although ...

Abstract: Here, seasonal heat transport in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans is compared using a 49-year-long analysis based on data assimilation. In midlatitudes surface heat flux is largely balanced by seasonal storage, ...

Abstract: This study examines the impact of the moisture exchange between the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers on instabilities of the atmosphere?ocean system. Wind speed-sensitive evaporation can affect these instabilities ...

Abstract: We develop a Spatially dependent formula to estimate rainfall from satellite-derived outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data and the height of the base of the trade-wind inversion. This formula has been constructed by ...

Abstract: A coupled ocean-atmosphere model is used to investigate the seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature and wind stress in the Tropics. A control run is presented that gives a realistic annual cycle with a cold tongue in the ...

Abstract: The authors have examined a numerical simulation of the tropical Atlantic Ocean circulation forced by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) surface wind stress during 1980?88. The mean state and ...

Abstract: Recent observations from the QuikSCAT and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellites, as well as a longer record of Special Sensor Microwave Imager winds are used to investigate the existence and dynamics of a Southern ...