The Southern Ocean carbon and climate observations and modeling (SOCCOM) project: A review

JL Sarmiento, KS Johnson, LA Arteaga… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Ocean serves as the primary gateway through which the
intermediate, deep, and bottom waters of the ocean interact with the surface ocean (and thus …

Tropical deep convection, cloud feedbacks and climate sensitivity

GL Stephens, KA Shiro, MZ Hakuba, H Takahashi… - Surveys in …, 2024 - Springer
This paper is concerned with how the diabatically-forced overturning circulations of the
atmosphere, established by the deep convection within the tropical trough zone (TTZ), first …

Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the hydrological cycle

L Cheng, KE Trenberth, N Gruber… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large
changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-term salinity changes challenging …

OMIP contribution to CMIP6: Experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

SM Griffies, G Danabasoglu, PJ Durack… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP) is an endorsed project in the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). OMIP addresses CMIP6 science …

Upper-Oceanic Warming in the Gulf of Mexico between 1950 and 2020

Z Wang, T Boyer, J Reagan, P Hogan - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We estimate ocean heat content (OHC) change in the upper 2000 m in the Gulf of Mexico
(GOM) from 1950 to 2020 to improve understanding of regional warming. Our estimates are …

Mixing and air–sea buoyancy fluxes set the time-mean overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic and Nordic Seas

DG Evans, NP Holliday, S Bacon, I Le Bras - Ocean Science, 2023 - os.copernicus.org
The overturning streamfunction as measured at the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar
North Atlantic Program) mooring array represents the transformation of warm, salty Atlantic …

The scale and activity of symmetric instability estimated from a global submesoscale-permitting ocean model

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, H Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Symmetric instability (SI) extracts kinetic energy from fronts in the surface mixed layer (SML),
potentially affecting the SML structure and dynamics. Here, a global submesoscale …

[HTML][HTML] Extraordinary boulder transport by storm waves (west of Ireland, winter 2013–2014), and criteria for analysing coastal boulder deposits

R Cox, KL Jahn, OG Watkins, P Cox - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Before-and-after photos of supratidal coastal boulder deposits (CBD) in the west of Ireland
show that storms in the winter of 2013–2014 transported boulders at elevations up to 29 m …

Temperature and salinity variability in the SODA3, ECCO4r3, and ORAS5 ocean reanalyses, 1993–2015

JA Carton, SG Penny, E Kalnay - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study extends recent ocean reanalysis comparisons to explore improvements to several
next-generation products, the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation, version 3 (SODA3); the …

On the spatial scales to be resolved by the surface water and ocean topography Ka-band radar interferometer

J Wang, LL Fu, HS Torres, S Chen… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission aims to measure the
sea surface height (SSH) at a high spatial resolution using a Ka-band radar interferometer …