The importance of planetary rotation period for ocean heat transport. [PDF]
Astrobiology, 2014 The climate and, hence, potential habitability of a planet crucially depends on how its atmospheric and ocean circulation transports heat from warmer to cooler regions. However, previous studies of planetary climate have concentrated on modeling the dynamics of atmospheres, while dramatically simplifying the treatment of oceans, which neglects or ...
Cullum J, Stevens D, Joshi M.
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Polar Amplification Due to Enhanced Heat Flux Across the Halocline [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 Polar amplification is a widely discussed phenomenon, and a range of mechanisms have been proposed to contribute to it, many of which involve atmospheric and surface processes.
E. Beer, I. Eisenman, T. J. W. Wagner
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Heat in the Barents Sea: transport, storage, and surface fluxes [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2010 A column model is set up for the Barents Sea to explore sensitivity of surface fluxes and heat storage from varying ocean heat transport. Mean monthly ocean transport and atmospheric forcing are synthesised and force the simulations. Results show that by
L. H. Smedsrud +3 more
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Atlantic meridional ocean heat transport at 26° N: impact on subtropical ocean heat content variability [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2013 Local climate is significantly affected by changes in the oceanic heat content on a range of timescales. This variability is driven by heat fluxes from both the atmosphere and the ocean.
M. Sonnewald +4 more
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The partitioning of poleward energy transport response between the atmosphere and Ekman flux to prescribed surface forcing in a simplified GCM [PDF]
Geoscience Letters, 2018 Recent studies have indicated that ocean circulation damps the atmospheric energy transport response to hemispherically differential energy perturbations, thereby muting the shifts of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
Sarah M. Kang +2 more
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The vertical structure of ocean heat transport [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 One of the most important contributions the ocean makes to Earth's climate is through its poleward heat transport: about 1.5 PW or more than 30% of that accomplished by the ocean‐atmosphere system (Trenberth and Caron, 2001). Recently, concern has arisen over whether global warming could affect this heat transport (Watson et al., 2001), for example ...
Boccaletti, G. +4 more
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Seasonal and mesoscale variability of oceanic transport of anthropogenic CO2 [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2009 Estimates of the ocean's large-scale transport of anthropogenic CO2 are based on one-time hydrographic sections, but the temporal variability of this transport has not been investigated. The aim of this study is to evaluate how the seasonal and mesoscale
J.-C. Dutay, Z. Lachkar, J. C. Orr
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The coupled system response to 250 years of freshwater forcing: Last Interglacial CMIP6–PMIP4 HadGEM3 simulations [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 The lig127k-H11 simulation of the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4) is run using the HadGEM3-GC3.1 model. We focus on the coupled system response to the applied meltwater forcing.
M. V. Guarino +5 more
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The Oceanic Eddy Heat Transport* [PDF]
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2002 The rectified eddy heat transport is calculated from a global high-resolution ocean general circulation model. The eddy heat transport is found to be strong in the western boundary currents, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the equatorial region. It is generally weak in the central gyres.
Jayne, S.R., Marotzke, J.
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A review of interactions between ocean heat transport and Arctic sea ice
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Arctic sea ice has been retreating at fast pace over the last decades, with potential impacts on the weather and climate at mid and high latitudes, as well as the biosphere and society.
David Docquier, Torben Koenigk
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