Abstract: Over most of the World Ocean, sea surface temperature (SST) is below 26°C and atmospheric deep convection rarely takes place. Cool ocean?atmosphere interaction is poorly understood and this lack of understanding is a ...

Abstract: Hemispheric asymmetries of continental geometry have long been speculated to be the cause of the Northern Hemisphere position of the intertropical convergence zone over the central and eastern Pacific. It is unknown, ...

Abstract: A linear theory is proposed that can explain both the period and the westward propagation of the equatorial annual cycles in the SST and zonal wind. A coupled model linearized about a mean state of the air-sea system is ...

Abstract: Over a large zonal extent of the central and eastern Pacific, the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is located to the north of the equator. Collocated with this ITCZ is a zonal band of warm sea surface, where the highest ...

Abstract: The climate over the equatorial Pacific displays a pronounced asymmetry in the zonal direction that is characterized by the Walker circulation in the atmosphere and the cold tongue in the ocean. An intermediate coupled ...

Abstract: The interaction between the annual and interannual variations is investigated by contrasting a pair of experiments with a general circulation model of the tropical Pacific Ocean. The atmospheric forcing applied to the model ...

Abstract: A linear model that couples an ocean mixed layer with a simple dynamic atmosphere is used to study the mechanism for decadal variability over the tropical Atlantic. An unstable mode with a dipole sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: An ocean general circulation model is coupled with a simple atmosphere model to investigate the formation mechanism of the intertropical convergence zone in the eastern Pacific, which is observed in the Northern Hemisphere. ...

Abstract: A linear model that couples an ocean mixed layer with a simple dynamic atmosphere is used to study the mechanism for decadal variability over the tropical Atlantic. An unstable mode with a dipole sea surface temperature ...

Abstract: A coupled ocean-atmosphere model is used to investigate the effects of seasonal variation in solar radiation on the configuration of the intertropical convergence zone. The model maintains a Northern Hemispheric ITCZ under ...