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RISThe Intertropical Convergence Zone in the South Atlantic and the Equatorial Cold Tongue
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Recent observations from the QuikSCAT and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellites, as well as a longer record of Special Sensor Microwave Imager winds are used to investigate the existence and dynamics of a Southern ...
Variability of the Oceanic Mixed Layer, 1960–2004
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new monthly uniformly gridded analysis of mixed layer properties based on the World Ocean Atlas 2005 global ocean dataset is used to examine interannual and longer changes in mixed layer properties during the 45-yr period ...
Observed Subseasonal Variability of Oceanic Barrier and Compensated Layers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A monthly gridded analysis of barrier-layer and compensated-layer width based on observed vertical profiles of temperature and salinity and covering the period 1960?2007 is explored for evidence of subseasonal variability ...
Intraseasonal Latent Heat Flux Based on Satellite Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Weekly average satellite-based estimates of latent heat flux (LHTFL) are used to characterize spatial patterns and temporal variability in the intraseasonal band (periods shorter than 3 months). As expected, the major ...
Climatological Annual Cycle of the Salinity Budgets of the Subtropical Maxima
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ix subtropical salinity maxima (Smax) exist: two each in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean basins. The north Indian (NI) Smax lies in the Arabian Sea while the remaining five lie in the open ocean. The annual cycle ...
Mean and Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean in the CCSM4
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study analyzes important aspects of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from simulations of the fourth version of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4): the mean sea surface temperature (SST) and wind stress, the Atlantic ...
Tropical Atlantic Biases in CCSM4
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper focuses on diagnosing biases in the seasonal climate of the tropical Atlantic in the twentieth-century simulation of the Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4). The biases appear in both atmospheric ...
Removing Spurious Low-Frequency Variability in Drifter Velocities
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: atellite-tracked drifting buoys of the Global Drifter Program have drogues, centered at 15-m depth, to minimize direct wind forcing and Stokes drift. Drogue presence has historically been determined from submergence or ...
Seasonal Climate of the Tropical Atlantic Sector in the NCAR Community Climate System Model 3: Error Structure and Probable Causes of Errors
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) has a dipolelike pattern with a cold bias in the northern Tropics and a warm bias in the southeastern Tropics, which is reminiscent of the observed pattern of climate ...