Abstract: A parameterization of vertical diffusivity in ocean general circulation models has been implemented in the ocean model component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). The parameterization represents the dynamics ...

Abstract: he generation of time-mean recirculation gyres from the nonlinear rectification of an oscillatory, spatially localized vorticity forcing is examined analytically and numerically. Insights into the rectification mechanism ...

Abstract: Significant inertial oscillations are present in all primitive equation ocean general circulation models when they are forced with high-frequency (period order of days) wind stress fields. At specific latitudes the energy ...

Abstract: The rectified eddy heat transport is calculated from a global high-resolution ocean general circulation model. The eddy heat transport is found to be strong in the western boundary currents, the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

Abstract: Some of the interactions and feedbacks between the atmosphere, thermohaline circulation, and sea ice are illustrated using a simple process model. A simplified version of the annual-mean coupled ocean?atmosphere box model ...

Abstract: he contemporary Arctic Ocean differs markedly from midlatitude, ice-free, and relatively warm oceans in the context of density-compensating temperature and salinity variations. These variations are invaluable tracers in ...

Abstract: Previous numerical experiments with an unstable zonal jet on a ? plane are extended to the reduced-gravity case. The strength of the resulting recirculation varies inversely with the combination ? + 1/S where S is the ...

Abstract: A numerical model, with quasigeostrophic and barotropic dynamics, is used to study the forcing of mean flows by an unstable jet. The initially zonal jet has specified shape and transport at the western inflow boundary and ...

Abstract: ooring measurements from the Kuroshio Extension System Study (June 2004?June 2006) and from the ongoing Kuroshio Extension Observatory (June 2004?present) are combined with float measurements of the Argo network to study ...

Abstract: his paper describes a new model (method) called Satellite-derived North Atlantic Profiles (SNAP) that seeks to provide a high-resolution, near-real-time ocean thermal field to aid tropical cyclone (TC) forecasting. Using ...