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Explaining the Spread in Global Mean Thermosteric Sea Level Rise in CMIP5 Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he ocean stores more than 90% of the energy excess associated with anthropogenic climate change. The resulting ocean warming and thermal expansion are leading contributors to global mean sea level (GMSL) rise. Confidence ...
Climatic Impacts of Parameterized Local and Remote Tidal Mixing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: urbulent mixing driven by breaking internal tides plays a primary role in the meridional overturning and oceanic heat budget. Most current climate models explicitly parameterize only the local dissipation of internal tides ...
Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he ocean interior stratification and meridional overturning circulation are largely sustained by diapycnal mixing. The breaking of internal tides is a major source of diapycnal mixing. Many recent climate models parameterize ...
Sensitivity of the Ocean State to Lee Wave–Driven Mixing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: iapycnal mixing plays a key role in maintaining the ocean stratification and the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). In the ocean interior, it is mainly sustained by breaking internal waves. Two important classes of ...
Equatorward Pathways of Solomon Sea Water Masses and Their Modifications
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Solomon Sea is a key region of the southwest Pacific Ocean, connecting the thermocline subtropics to the equator via western boundary currents (WBCs). Modifications to water masses are thought to occur in this region ...
Energy Flux into Internal Lee Waves: Sensitivity to Future Climate Changes Using Linear Theory and a Climate Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nternal lee waves generated by geostrophic flows over rough topography are thought to be a significant energy sink for eddies and energy source for deep ocean mixing. The sensitivity of the energy flux into lee waves from ...
Thermocline Circulation in the Solomon Sea: A Modeling Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In the southwest Pacific, thermocline waters connecting the tropics to the equator via western boundary currents (WBCs) transit through the Solomon Sea. Despite its importance in feeding the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) ...
Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: cent advances in our understanding of internal-wave driven turbulent mixing in the ocean interior are summarized. New parameterizations for global climate ocean models, and their climate impacts, are introduced.
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