Abstract: The decadal response of the ventilated thermocline to surface buoyancy forcing is investigated, using simplified mixed layer thermodynamics and two-layer planetary geostrophic dynamics. The model is forced by a stationary ...

Abstract: The thermocline variability caused by a sudden variation of the Ekman pumping is studied, using a 2.5-layer geostrophic model that represents the ventilated and the shadow zones of a subtropical gyre and baroclinic Rossby ...

Abstract: In the midlatitudes, the thermocline depth variations are largely due to Rossby waves of first baroclinic mode forced by stochastic wind stress. The frequency spectrum of this oceanic response is investigated with a simple ...

Abstract: atellite-derived sea ice concentration (SIC) and reanalyzed atmospheric data are used to explore the predictability of the winter Euro-Atlantic climate resulting from autumn SIC variability over the Barents?Kara Seas region ...