Abstract: The GFDL Modular Ocean Model and the Miami Isopycnal Ocean Model are used to investigate the response of the equatorial thermocline to extratropical buoyancy forcing. Passive tracers and analytical theories are also used ...

Abstract: The optimal anomalous sea surface temperature (SST) pattern for forcing North American drought is identified through atmospheric general circulation model integrations in which the response of the Palmer drought severity ...

Abstract: Multiple tropical climate regimes are found in an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) coupled to a global slab ocean when the model is forced by different values of globally uniform insolation. Even in this simple ...

Abstract: he authors compared the assessment of the seasonal cycle of the atmospheric response to surface forcing in three statistical methods, generalized equilibrium feedback analysis (GEFA), linear inverse modeling (LIM), and ...

Abstract: The effect of an enhanced subtropical surface cooling on El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) through the ?ocean tunnel? is investigated using a coupled model. Here, the term ?ocean tunnel? refers to the water pathway that ...

Abstract: Paleoclimatic evidence suggests that during the mid-Holocene epoch (about 6000 yr ago) North America and North Africa were significantly drier and wetter, respectively, than at present. Modeling efforts to attribute these ...

Abstract: Low-order Linear Inverse Models (LIMs) have been shown to be competitive with comprehensive coupled atmosphere-ocean models at reproducing many aspects of tropical oceanic variability and predictability. This paper presents ...