Will high-resolution global ocean models benefit coupled predictions on short-range to climate timescales?

HT Hewitt, MJ Bell, EP Chassignet, A Czaja, D Ferreira… - Ocean Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
As the importance of the ocean in the weather and climate system is increasingly
recognised, operational systems are now moving towards coupled prediction not only for …

The GFDL global ocean and sea ice model OM4. 0: Model description and simulation features

A Adcroft, W Anderson, V Balaji… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We document the configuration and emergent simulation features from the Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) OM4. 0 ocean/sea ice model. OM4 serves as the …

Two-timescale response of a large Antarctic ice shelf to climate change

KA Naughten, J De Rydt, SHR Rosier, A Jenkins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A potentially irreversible threshold in Antarctic ice shelf melting would be crossed if the
ocean cavity beneath the large Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf were to become flooded with warm …

Gateway-driven weakening of ocean gyres leads to Southern Ocean cooling

I Sauermilch, JM Whittaker, A Klocker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Declining atmospheric CO2 concentrations are considered the primary driver for the
Cenozoic Greenhouse-Icehouse transition,~ 34 million years ago. A role for tectonically …

Warm Circumpolar Deep Water transport toward Antarctica driven by local dense water export in canyons

AK Morrison, AMC Hogg, MH England, P Spence - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Poleward transport of warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) has been linked to melting of
Antarctic ice shelves. However, even the steady-state spatial distribution and mechanisms of …

Thermal responses to Antarctic ice shelf melt in an eddy-rich global ocean–sea ice model

R Moorman, AK Morrison, A McC. Hogg - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The response of near-Antarctic waters to freshening by increased glacial melt is investigated
using a high-resolution (0.1°) global ocean–sea ice model with realistic Antarctic water …

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming

A Gjermundsen, A Nummelin, D Olivié, M Bentsen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The effective climate sensitivity estimates the equilibrium response of near-surface
temperature to doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and is a widely used …

[HTML][HTML] Transient and equilibrium responses of the Atlantic overturning circulation to warming in coupled climate models: The role of temperature and salinity

DB Bonan, AF Thompson, ER Newsom… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The long-term response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to climate
change remains poorly understood, in part due to the computational expense associated …

Buoyancy forcing dominates the cross-equatorial ocean heat transport response to Northern Hemisphere extratropical cooling

MT Luongo, SP Xie, I Eisenman - Journal of Climate, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Cross-equatorial ocean heat transport (OHT) changes have been found to damp meridional
shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) induced by hemispheric asymmetries in …

Wind–and sea‐ice–driven interannual variability of Antarctic Bottom water formation

C Schmidt, AK Morrison… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is a major component of the global overturning
circulation, originating around the Antarctic continental margin. In recent decades AABW has …