Abstract: Three ocean-atmosphere models are constructed and evaluated for further studies of climatic variability and climatic sensitivity. All the models are based on the two-layer, highly truncated spectral atmospheric model of ...

Abstract: A sea-ice model based bulk-viscous plastic dynamics and 3-layer thermodynamics is coupled to a multilevel primitive equation model of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland Sea. The combined model is forced by inflow through the ...

Abstract: A model is presented whereby the thickness and extent of sea ice may be predicted in climate simulations. A basic one-dimensional diffusion process is taken to act in the ice, with modifications due to penetration of solar ...

Abstract: The circulation of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland Sea is simulated using the 1969 numerical model of Bryan and Cox. The coastline and bottom topography of the region are resolved by a 110 km horizontal grid spacing and by ...

Abstract: The circulation of the western North Atlantic is simulated with a primitive equation model that has 5 levels and a horizontal grid size of 37 km. The idealized model domain is a rectangular basin, 3000 km long, 2000 km ...

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to compare two numerical models of vastly different complexity and computational requirements, which have been used recently in a number of midlatitude ocean simulations. Specifically, the ...

Abstract: An equatorial ocean experiment has been carried out, using the primitive equation model of Semtner and Mintz (1977) with a highly conservative differencing scheme, with high horizontal resolution (?x = 0.50°, ?y=0.25°) and ...

Abstract: The trapped equatorial standing modes described theoretically by Gent (1979) are reproduced in a single vertical-mode numerical ocean model. integrations are carried out in domains whose longitudinal extents are characteristic ...

Abstract: A ten-year integration of the Held-Suarez climate model with simplified continents and prescribed, but seasonally varying, ocean temperatures produces mean climatic states that are qualitatively similar to observed seasonal ...

Abstract: We test the sensitivity of energy trapping by equatorial basin modes to the presence of mean currents in a series of numerical experiments. At low frequency, trapping persists in the form of modified basin modes only when ...