Northern Hemisphere stationary waves in a changing climate

RCJ Wills, RH White, XJ Levine - Current climate change reports, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Stationary waves are planetary-scale longitudinal variations in
the time-averaged atmospheric circulation. Here, we consider the projected response of …

Atlantic-Pacific asymmetry in deep water formation

D Ferreira, P Cessi, HK Coxall… - Annual Review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
While the Atlantic Ocean is ventilated by high-latitude deep water formation and exhibits a
pole-to-pole overturning circulation, the Pacific Ocean does not. This asymmetric global …

Overturning circulation, nutrient limitation, and warming in the Glacial North Pacific

JWB Rae, WR Gray, RCJ Wills, I Eisenman… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Although the Pacific Ocean is a major reservoir of heat and CO2, and thus an important
component of the global climate system, its circulation under different climatic conditions is …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of low-frequency variability in North Atlantic Ocean heat transport and AMOC

D Oldenburg, RCJ Wills, KC Armour… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Ocean heat transport (OHT) plays a key role in climate and its variability. Here, we identify
modes of low-frequency North Atlantic OHT variability by applying a low-frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Climate sensitivity and meridional overturning circulation in the late Eocene using GFDL CM2. 1

DK Hutchinson, AM de Boer, HK Coxall… - Climate of the …, 2018‏ - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT), which took place approximately 34 Ma
ago, is an interval of great interest in Earth's climate history, due to the inception of the …

Spontaneous Activation of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC) in Long-Term Ocean Response to Greenhouse Forcing

PE Curtis, AV Fedorov - Journal of Climate, 2024‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The present-day deep ocean global meridional overturning circulation is dominated by the
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), with dense water sinking in the high …

[HTML][HTML] Eddy lifetime, number, and diffusivity and the suppression of eddy kinetic energy in midwinter

S Schemm, T Schneider - Journal of Climate, 2018‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Eddy Lifetime, Number, and Diffusivity and the Suppression of Eddy Kinetic Energy in Midwinter
in: Journal of Climate Volume 31 Issue 14 (2018) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Revisiting the role of mountains in the Northern Hemisphere winter atmospheric circulation

RH White, JM Wallace… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2021‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The impact of global orography on Northern Hemisphere wintertime climate is revisited
using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model, version 6 (WACCM6). A suite of …

Thermodynamic and dynamic controls on changes in the zonally anomalous hydrological cycle

RC Wills, MP Byrne, T Schneider - Geophysical Research …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The wet gets wetter, dry gets drier paradigm explains the expected moistening of the
extratropics and drying of the subtropics as the atmospheric moisture content increases with …

Role of the quasi-biennial oscillation in the downward extension of stratospheric northern annular mode anomalies

R Zhang, W Tian, T Wang - Climate Dynamics, 2020‏ - Springer
Using the JRA-55 reanalysis datasets and radiosonde observations, the impact of the quasi-
biennial oscillation (QBO) on the downward extension of stratospheric Northern Annular …