Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Surface warming–induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents

Q Peng, SP Xie, D Wang, RX Huang, G Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
How the ocean circulation changes in a warming climate is an important but poorly
understood problem. Using a global ocean model, we decompose the problem into distinct …

Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger

BJ Henley, HV McGregor, AD King, O Hoegh-Guldberg… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024
was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST). The likelihood of temperature-induced …

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 …

OceanSODA-ETHZ: A global gridded data set of the surface ocean carbonate system for seasonal to decadal studies of ocean acidification

L Gregor, N Gruber - Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Ocean acidification has altered the ocean's carbonate chemistry profoundly since
preindustrial times, with potentially serious consequences for marine life. Yet, no long-term …

Evaluating climate models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO metrics package

YY Planton, E Guilyardi, AT Wittenberg… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant mode of interannual climate
variability on the planet, with far-reaching global impacts. It is therefore key to evaluate …

Four decades of trends and drivers of global surface ocean acidification

D Ma, L Gregor, N Gruber - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The oceans are acidifying in response to the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, yet the global‐scale progression of this acidification has …

Opposite response of strong and moderate positive Indian Ocean Dipole to global warming

W Cai, K Yang, L Wu, G Huang, A Santoso, B Ng… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
A strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) induces weather extremes such as the 2019
Australian bushfires and African floods. The impact is influenced by sea surface temperature …