Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

E Van Sebille, SM Griffies, R Abernathey, TP Adams… - Ocean modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Lagrangian analysis is a powerful way to analyse the output of ocean circulation models and
other ocean velocity data such as from altimetry. In the Lagrangian approach, large sets of …

A 1.8 million year history of Amazon vegetation

AK Kern, TK Akabane, JQ Ferreira, CM Chiessi… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
During the Pleistocene, long-term trends in global climate were controlled by orbital cycles
leading to high amplitude glacial-interglacial variability. The history of Amazonian vegetation …

Widespread global disparities between modelled and observed mid-depth ocean currents

F Su, R Fan, F Yan, M Meadows, V Lyne, P Hu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The mid-depth ocean circulation is critically linked to actual changes in the long-term global
climate system. However, in the past few decades, predictions based on ocean circulation …

Decadal transition of moisture sources and transport in northwestern China during summer from 1982 to 2010

L Hua, L Zhong, Z Ma - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The northwestern corner of China (NWCC) experienced a decadal transition in summer
precipitation during 1982–2010, with a significant upward trend in 1982–2000 (P1) but a …

[HTML][HTML] Local and external moisture sources for the Arctic warming over the Barents–Kara Seas

L Zhong, L Hua, D Luo - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Water vapor is critical to Arctic sea ice loss and surface air warming, particularly in winter.
Whether the local process or poleward transport from lower latitudes can explain the Arctic …

The impact of horizontal resolution on energy transfers in global ocean models

J Kjellsson, L Zanna - Fluids, 2017 - mdpi.com
The ocean is a turbulent fluid with processes acting on a variety of spatio-temporal scales.
The estimates of energy fluxes between length scales allows us to understand how the …

Characteristics of the precipitation recycling ratio and its relationship with regional precipitation in China

L Hua, L Zhong, Z Ke - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2017 - Springer
A dynamic recycling model (DRM) with an analytical moisture trajectory tracking method,
together with Japan Meteorological Agency 25-year reanalysis data, is used to study the …

Evaluation of oceanic and atmospheric trajectory schemes in the TRACMASS trajectory model v6. 0

K Döös, B Jönsson, J Kjellsson - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
Three different trajectory schemes for oceanic and atmospheric general circulation models
are compared in two different experiments. The theories of the trajectory schemes are …

The downward spiralling nature of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

S Berglund, K Döös, S Groeskamp… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) regulates the heat
distribution and climate of Earth. Here we identify a new feature of the circulation within the …

Coastal transport of river-discharged radionuclides: Impact of speciation and transformation processes in numerical model simulations

M Simonsen, OC Lind, Ø Saetra, PE Isachsen… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Following a potential nuclear accident, river run-off may potentially become a significant
source of radionuclide contamination to the coastal marine environment. In the present work …