Ocean mesoscale and frontal-scale ocean–atmosphere interactions and influence on large-scale climate: A review

H Seo, LW O'Neill, MA Bourassa, A Czaja… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Two decades of high-resolution satellite observations and climate modeling studies have
indicated strong ocean–atmosphere coupled feedback mediated by ocean mesoscale …

Will high-resolution global ocean models benefit coupled predictions on short-range to climate timescales?

HT Hewitt, MJ Bell, EP Chassignet, A Czaja, D Ferreira… - Ocean Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
As the importance of the ocean in the weather and climate system is increasingly
recognised, operational systems are now moving towards coupled prediction not only for …

Does increased atmospheric resolution improve seasonal climate predictions?

AA Scaife, J Camp, R Comer, P Davis… - Atmospheric Science …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We assess the impact of atmospheric horizontal resolution on the prediction skill and fidelity
of seasonal forecasts. We show the response to an increase of atmospheric resolution from …

Mitigating climate biases in the midlatitude North Atlantic by increasing model resolution: SST gradients and their relation to blocking and the jet

PJ Athanasiadis, F Ogawa, NE Omrani… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Starting to resolve the oceanic mesoscale in climate models is a step change in model
fidelity. This study examines how certain obstinate biases in the midlatitude North Atlantic …

Ocean fronts and eddies force atmospheric rivers and heavy precipitation in western North America

X Liu, X Ma, P Chang, Y Jia, D Fu, G Xu, L Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are responsible for over 90% of poleward water vapor transport in
the mid-latitudes and can produce extreme precipitation when making landfall. However …

Simulating the midlatitude atmospheric circulation: what might we gain from high-resolution modeling of air-sea interactions?

A Czaja, C Frankignoul, S Minobe… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To provide a snapshot of the current research on the oceanic
forcing of the atmospheric circulation in midlatitudes and a concise update on previous …

Effects of model resolution, physics, and coupling on Southern Hemisphere storm tracks in CESM1. 3

GA Meehl, D Yang, JM Arblaster… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Two high‐resolution versions of a Coupled Earth System Model (CESM1. 3: 0.25°
atmosphere, 1° ocean; CESM1. 1: 0.25° atmosphere, 0.1° ocean) are compared to the …

Atmosphere surface storm track response to resolved ocean mesoscale in two sets of global climate model experiments

RJ Small, R Msadek, YO Kwon, JF Booth, C Zarzycki - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
It has been hypothesized that the ocean mesoscale (particularly ocean fronts) can affect the
strength and location of the overlying extratropical atmospheric storm track. In this paper, we …

A new framework for near‐surface wind convergence over the Kuroshio extension and Gulf Stream in wintertime: The role of atmospheric fronts

R Parfitt, H Seo - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that the wintertime time‐mean surface wind convergence patterns over the
Kuroshio Extension and Gulf Stream show significant imprints of the underlying oceanic …

On the influence of sea surface temperature distributions on the development of extratropical cyclones

H Bui, T Spengler - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The sea surface temperature (SST) distribution can modulate the development of
extratropical cyclones through sensible and latent heat fluxes. However, the direct and …