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An atmospheric model is coupled to a sea surface temperature algorithm that calculates the diurnal variability in order to understand the responses to near surface winds and boundary layer temperature, pressure, and moisture in the north...
Integrated kinetic energy (IKE) is a recently developed metric that approximates the destructive potential of a tropical cyclone by assessing the size and strength of its wind field. Despite the potential usefulness of the IKE metric, ...
State of the art fully three-dimensional ocean models are very computationally expensive and their adjoints are even more resource intensive. However, many features of interest are approximated by the first baroclinic mode over much of...
Wave and wind direction effects on remote sensing measurements of ocean surface emissivity are investigated using a microwave radiometer in high wind conditions with a focus on tropical cyclones. Surface wind speed, which drives many...
The ice shelves in the Western Antarctic have seen an increase in melt over the past decade, mainly due to basal melting induced by underlying warm, salty Circumpolar Deep Water. Seal data in the Bellingshausen Sea provides extensive...
The cold blob refers to an observationally unprecedented, gyre-scale, record-breaking cold of mean surface temperature over the subpolar North Atlantic. Its anomalous cold feature goes against the rising trend of global mean surface...
How much warmer is the ocean surface than the atmosphere directly above it? Part 1 of the present study offers a means to quantify this temperature difference using a nonlinear one-dimensional global energy balance coupled ocean...
Energy is introduced into the oceans primarily at large scales by means of wind, tides and surface buoyancy forcing. This energy is transferred to the smaller mesoscale eld through the geostrophic instability processes. The mesoscale eld...
The polar regions of the world constitute an important sector in the global energy balance. Among other effects responsible for the change in the sea-ice cover like ocean circulation and ice-albedo feedback, the cloud-radiation feedback...
The formation of cold core filaments on an idealized continental shelf is investigated using a numerical model to simulate the ocean's response to surface cooling. A horizontal density gradient forms because of uneven buoyancy loss due...
The subject of localized topographic circulation has received much attention in the past, in particular Taylor columns have been extensively studied and several observations indicate their existence in the real ocean. In contrast, we...
Interactions between the lower atmosphere and upper ocean on diurnal time scales are assessed in the tropical Atlantic Ocean by combining over 20 years of observations from the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical...
Equatorial waves have been studied extensively due to their importance to the tropical climate and weather systems. Historically, their activity is diagnosed mainly in the wavenumber-frequency domain. Recently, many studies have...
The wind-driven oceanic circulation in the presence of bottom topography that isopycnals intersect is examined in an idealized setting. A modified quasi-geostrophic (QG) model has been designed and implemented. The model allows staircase...
Since 1980, a new type of ENSO, i.e., central Pacific (CP) ENSO, where sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) are mainly located in the equatorial central Pacific, has been frequently observed. Several studies have documented and...
This study identifies the major contributing factors in estimating whitecap coverage globally from satellite observations. Power law functions for estimating both the active and total whitecap coverage from in situ observations are...
The abrupt temperature rise in the beginning of the Holocene is the most dramatic climatic change of the last 80, 000 years. It is suggested here that the change is due to the abrupt opening of the Bering Strait which we hypothesize was...
The following study examines the spatiotemporal response of the local scale and large scale environment to tropical cyclone (TC) passage. The research presented here is broken up into three chapters that can be separated into two parts....
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