Abstract: The life cycle and structure of dominant wintertime SST anomalies and associated atmospheric response in the extratropical North Pacific are examined using results from a 100-yr seasonal simulation of a low-resolution ...

Abstract: In the linear theory of the isentropic zonally averaged circulation (Gallimore and Johnson, 1981), stable meridional circulations within the circumpolar vortex are forced by larger scale diabatic beating and angular momentum ...

Abstract: For the axisymmetric general circulation, Eliassen (1951) showed that stable meridional circulations are controlled by large-scale diabatic heating and friction torque. Because the real atmosphere is longitudinally disturbed, ...

Abstract: The approximation of ocean heat storage by the net surface energy flux and the implications for zonal mean SST simulation using mixed layer ocean formulation are examined. The analysis considers both constant and variable ...

Abstract: The simulation of zonal mean ocean surface temperature and heat storage (time rate of change of heat content) obtained from a low resolution, atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) coupled to a variable depth upper-ocean ...

Abstract: The sensitivity of a low resolution, spectral general circulation model (GCM) to specification of physical processes is examined using a new version of the model with refined parameterizations. Specific refinements in ...

Abstract: Two 100-year seasonal simulators, one performed with a low resolution atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) coupled to a mixed-layer ocean formulation and the other made with the GCM forced by prescribed ocean ...

Abstract: The sensitivity of a six-layer NCAR atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) to a variety of idealized, very large amplitude, midlatitude and subtropical North Pacific Ocean surface temperature (OST) anomalies is analyzed. ...