Abstract: Air?sea exchanges of momentum, energy, and material substances of fundamental importance to the variability of the climate system are mediated by the character of the turbulence in the atmospheric and oceanic boundary ...

Abstract: Salinity dynamics in a simple two-box model of the thermohaline circulation (THC) is considered. The model parameterizes fluctuating eddy transport and buoyancy forcing by two independent stochastic processes. The associated ...

Abstract: The probability distribution of sea surface wind speeds, w, is considered. Daily SeaWinds scatterometer observations are used for the characterization of the moments of sea surface winds on a global scale. These observations ...

Abstract: The statistical structure of sea surface wind speeds is considered, both in terms of the leading-order moments (mean, standard deviation, and skewness) and in terms of the parameters of a best-fit Weibull distribution. An ...

Abstract: This study considers the probability distribution of sea surface wind speeds, which have historically been modeled using the Weibull distribution. First, non-Weibull structure in the observed sea surface wind speeds (from ...

Abstract: A strong linear relationship between the mean and skewness of global sea surface winds (both zonal and meridional) is shown to exist, such that where the wind component is on average positive, it is negatively skewed (and ...

Abstract: Nonlinear principal component analysis (NLPCA) is a generalization of traditional principal component analysis (PCA) that allows for the detection and characterization of low-dimensional nonlinear structure in multivariate ...

Abstract: The spatial structure of asymmetries in sea surface temperature (SST) and surface air temperature (SAT) between average El Niño and La Niña events is considered. It is demonstrated that in historical SST and SAT reconstructions, ...

Abstract: Open-ocean deep convection is a highly variable and strongly nonlinear process that plays an essential role in the global ocean circulation. A new view of its stability is presented here, in which variability, as parameterized ...

Abstract: The effect of stochastic fluctuations in the zonal-mean velocity field on the energy dispersion of planetary stationary waves is considered, using the nondivergent, barotropic vorticity equation. It is found that for small ...