Putting it all together: Adding value to the global ocean and climate observing systems with complete self-consistent ocean state and parameter estimates

P Heimbach, I Fukumori, CN Hill, RM Ponte… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In 1999, the consortium on Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) set
out to synthesize the hydrographic data collected by the World Ocean Circulation …

Distinct sources of interannual subtropical and subpolar Atlantic overturning variability

Y Kostov, HL Johnson, DP Marshall, P Heimbach… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is pivotal for regional and global
climate due to its key role in the uptake and redistribution of heat and carbon. Establishing …

A detection of the sea level fingerprint of Greenland Ice Sheet melt

S Coulson, S Dangendorf, JX Mitrovica, ME Tamisiea… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Rapid melting of ice sheets and glaciers drives a unique geometry, or fingerprint, of sea
level change. However, the detection of individual fingerprints has been challenging …

Finale: impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding

AJS Meijers, MP Meredith… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The 5-year Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports
(ORCHESTRA) programme and its 1-year extension ENCORE (ENCORE is the National …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers of upper ocean heat content extremes around New Zealand revealed by Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis

C Kerry, M Roughan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwaves can have devastating ecological and economic impacts and
understanding what drives their onset is crucial to achieving improved prediction. A key …

AMOC sensitivity to surface buoyancy fluxes: the role of air-sea feedback mechanisms

Y Kostov, HL Johnson, DP Marshall - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We interrogate the sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to
surface heat and freshwater fluxes over the Subpolar Gyre in an ocean general circulation …

Leveraging uncertainty quantification to design ocean climate observing systems

N Loose, P Heimbach - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean observations are expensive and difficult to collect. Designing effective ocean
observing systems therefore warrants deliberate, quantitative strategies. We leverage …

Quantifying dynamical proxy potential through shared adjustment physics in the North Atlantic

N Loose, P Heimbach, HR Pillar… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic quantities of interest (QoIs), for example, ocean heat content or transports, are often
inaccessible to direct observation, due to the high cost of instrument deployment and …

Atmospheric warming drives growth in Arctic Sea ice: A key role for snow

A Bigdeli, AT Nguyen, HR Pillar… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A number of feedbacks regulate the response of Arctic sea ice to local atmospheric warming.
Using a realistic coupled ocean‐sea ice model and its adjoint, we isolate a mechanism by …

Optimal precursors triggering sudden shifts in the Antarctic circumpolar current transport through Drake Passage

L Zhou, Q Wang, M Mu, K Zhang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the high nonlinearity, the accurate prediction of the Antarctic circumpolar current
(ACC) transport is still challenging. Using the eddy‐permitting regional ocean modeling …