Extratropical forcing and tropical rainfall distribution: Energetics framework and ocean Ekman advection

SM Kang, Y Shin, SP **e - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2018 - nature.com
Intense tropical rainfall occurs in a narrow belt near the equator, called the inter-tropical
convergence zone (ITCZ). In the past decade, the atmospheric energy budget has been …

Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent moisture transport

Z Jian, Y Wang, H Dang, M Mohtadi, Y Rosenthal… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) exerts a dominant role in global climate by
releasing huge amounts of water vapour and latent heat to the atmosphere and modulating …

The role of ocean gateways on cooling climate on long time scales

WP Sijp, AS von der Heydt, HA Dijkstra, S Flögel… - Global and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
We examine ocean changes in response to changes in paleogeography from the
Cretaceous to present in an intermediate complexity model and in the fully coupled CCSM3 …

Resolving orbital and climate keys of Earth and extraterrestrial environments with dynamics (ROCKE-3D) 1.0: a general circulation model for simulating the climates of …

MJ Way, I Aleinov, DS Amundsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with
Dynamics (ROCKE-3D) is a three-dimensional General Circulation Model (GCM) developed …

Habitable climate scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a dynamic ocean

AD Del Genio, MJ Way, DS Amundsen, I Aleinov… - Astrobiology, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Abstract The nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b will be a prime future target for
characterization, despite questions about its retention of water. Climate models with static …

What processes drive the ocean heat transport?

R Ferrari, D Ferreira - Ocean Modelling, 2011 - Elsevier
The ocean contributes to regulating the Earth's climate through its ability to transport heat
from the equator to the poles. In this study we use long simulations of an ocean model to …

Ocean dynamics and the inner edge of the habitable zone for tidally locked terrestrial planets

J Yang, DS Abbot, DDB Koll, Y Hu… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies have shown that ocean dynamics can have a significant warming effect on
the permanent night sides of 1: 1 tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets with Earth-like …

The Partitioning of Meridional Heat Transport from the Last Glacial Maximum to CO 2 Quadrupling in Coupled Climate Models

A Donohoe, KC Armour, GH Roe, DS Battisti… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Meridional heat transport (MHT) is analyzed in ensembles of coupled climate models
simulating climate states ranging from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to quadrupled CO 2 …

Decomposing the meridional heat transport in the climate system

H Yang, Q Li, K Wang, Y Sun, D Sun - Climate Dynamics, 2015 - Springer
The meridional heat transport (MHT) in the climate system is investigated using a state-of-
the-art coupled climate model (CESM1. 0). This work decomposes the MHT and studies their …

No snowball on habitable tidally locked planets

J Checlair, K Menou, DS Abbot - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The TRAPPIST-1, Proxima Centauri, and LHS 1140 systems are the most exciting
prospects for future follow-up observations of potentially inhabited planets. All of the planets …