Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability

FA Schott, SP Xie, JP McCreary Jr - Reviews of Geophysics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the Indian Ocean (IO) has been discovered to have a much larger impact on
climate variability than previously thought. This paper reviews climate phenomena and …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry

HE Phillips, A Tandon, R Furue, R Hood… - Ocean …, 2021 - os.copernicus.org
Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through
concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air–sea exchanges, detecting …

North Pacific Gyre Oscillation links ocean climate and ecosystem change

E Di Lorenzo, N Schneider, KM Cobb… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Decadal fluctuations in salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll, a variety of zooplankton taxa, and fish
stocks in the Northeast Pacific are often poorly correlated with the most widely‐used index of …

Circumpolar structure and distribution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts: 1. Mean circumpolar paths

S Sokolov, SR Rintoul - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
High resolution hydrographic sections and maps of the gradient of sea surface height (SSH)
reveal that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) consists of multiple jets or frontal …

Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution

B Bernard, G Madec, T Penduff, JM Molines… - Ocean dynamics, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Series of sensitivity tests were performed with az-coordinate, global eddy-permitting
(1/4°) ocean/sea-ice model (the ORCA-R025 model configuration developed for the …

[HTML][HTML] A global climatology of surface wind and wind stress fields from eight years of QuikSCAT scatterometer data

CM Risien, DB Chelton - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Global Climatology of Surface Wind and Wind Stress Fields from Eight Years of
QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 38 Issue 11 (2008) …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring surface currents with Surface Velocity Program drifters: the instrument, its data, and some recent results

R Lumpkin, M Pazos - … analysis and prediction of coastal and …, 2007 - aoml.noaa.gov
For centuries, our knowledge of the oceans' surface circulation was inferred from the drift of
floating objects. Dramatic examples include wrecked Chinese junks and Japanese glass …

A global relationship between the ocean water cycle and near‐surface salinity

L Yu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean evaporation (E) and precipitation (P) are the fundamental components of the global
water cycle. They are also the freshwater flux forcing (ie, E‐P) for the open ocean salinity …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of horizontal resolution (1/12 to 1/50) on Gulf Stream separation, penetration, and variability

EP Chassignet, X Xu - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Impact of Horizontal Resolution (1/12 to 1/50) on Gulf Stream Separation, Penetration, and
Variability in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 47 Issue 8 (2017) Jump to Content …

[HTML][HTML] Mean dynamic topography of the ocean derived from satellite and drifting buoy data using three different techniques

N Maximenko, P Niiler, L Centurioni… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Presented here are three mean dynamic topography maps derived with different
methodologies. The first method combines sea level observed by the high-accuracy satellite …