Abstract: The ocean?atmosphere response to the surfacing of temperature anomalies from the oceanic thermocline is a key process in climate variability with decadal time scales. Using a coupled general circulation model, it is shown ...

Abstract: The horizontal scale dependences of in-phase and lagged imprints of ocean-mesoscale sea surface temperatures on surface winds are investigated using daily AMSR-E radiometer and QuikSCAT scatterometer observations in the ...

Abstract: The role of the Indonesian Throughflow in the global climate system is investigated with a coupled ocean?atmosphere model by contrasting simulations with realistic throughflow and closed Indonesian passages. The Indonesian ...

Abstract: he response of the atmospheric boundary layer to fronts of sea surface temperature (SST) is characterized by correlations between wind stress divergence and the downwind component of the SST gradient and between the wind ...

Abstract: pper ocean heat content (OHC) is at the heart of natural climate variability on interannual-to-decadal time scales, providing climate memory and the source of decadal prediction skill. In the midlatitude North Pacific ...

Abstract: We describe the meridional and seasonal structures of daily mean mixed-layer depth and its diurnal amplitude and their relation to atmospheric fluxes by compositing mixed-layer depth estimates derived from density observations. ...

Abstract: The relative roles of heat and freshwater fluxes in forcing the tropical Pacific on interannual timescales are investigated using sophisticated atmospheric and oceanic general circulation models. Interannual density flux ...

Abstract: The Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), defined as the leading empirical orthogonal function of North Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies, is a widely used index for decadal variability. It is shown that the PDO can ...

Abstract: The relationship between 3- and 10-yr variability in Indian Ocean temperatures and Indonesian throughflow (ITF) volume transport is examined using results from a 300-yr integration of the coupled NCAR Parallel Climate Model ...

Abstract: eridional shifts of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) jet on decadal time scales are examined using a 1960?2004 hindcast simulation of an eddy-resolving ocean general circulation model for the Earth Simulator (OFES). The leading ...