Importance of heat transport and local air‐sea heat fluxes for Barents Sea climate variability

AB Sandø, JEØ Nilsen, Y Gao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
An isopycnic coordinate ocean model has been used to investigate the importance of
different mechanisms on the Barents Sea climate variability for the period 1948–2006 …

Stochastically-driven multidecadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in CCSM3

YO Kwon, C Frankignoul - Climate dynamics, 2012 - Springer
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in the last 250 years of the 700-year-
long present-day control integration of the Community Climate System Model version 3 with …

Exploring currents and heat within the North Sea using a numerical model

SS Hjøllo, MD Skogen, E Svendsen - Journal of Marine Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional ecosystem models are important tools to examine ecosystem dynamics,
and the single most important factor for reliable modeling of phytoplankton and nutrient …

Heat budget in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre: Impacts of atmospheric weather regimes on the 1995 warming event

N Barrier, J Deshayes, AM Treguier… - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
In the mid 1990s, the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has shown a dramatic warming event that
has been thoroughly investigated from observations and numerical simulations. Some …

Mechanisms for variable North Atlantic–Nordic seas exchanges

AB Sandø, JEØ Nilsen, T Eldevik… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The variable oceanic exchanges between the Nordic seas and the Atlantic proper have
been investigated using an isopycnic coordinate ocean model for the period 1948–2007 …

CMIP5 model intercomparison of freshwater budget and circulation in the North Atlantic

J Deshayes, R Curry, R Msadek - Journal of Climate, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The subpolar North Atlantic is a center of variability of ocean properties, wind stress
curl, and air–sea exchanges. Observations and hindcast simulations suggest that from the …

Interannual to decadal variability of Atlantic Water in the Nordic and adjacent seas

JA Carton, GA Chepurin, J Reagan… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Warm salty Atlantic Water is the main source water for the Arctic Ocean and thus plays an
important role in the mass and heat budget of the Arctic. This study explores interannual to …

Transport of salt and freshwater in the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre

A Born, TF Stocker, AB Sandø - Ocean Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
Transport of salt in the Irminger Current, the northern branch of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre
coupling the eastern and western subpolar North Atlantic, plays an important role for climate …

Variability along the Atlantic water pathway in the forced Norwegian Earth System Model

HR Langehaug, AB Sandø, M Årthun, M Ilıcak - Climate dynamics, 2019 - Springer
The growing attention on mechanisms that can provide predictability on interannual-to-
decadal time scales, makes it necessary to identify how well climate models represent such …

Response of the eastern North Atlantic subpolar gyre to the North Atlantic Oscillation

C Herbaut, MN Houssais - Geophysical Research Letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The salinity changes in the subpolar gyre (SPG) in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation
(NAO) are studied in idealized numerical experiments. In the eastern SPG, anomalies of …