An imperative to monitor Earth’s energy imbalance
Submitted by Lei Han on Tue, 2016-02-23 04:47
In order to increase our ability to predict climate and develop mitigation strategies, it is an imperative to track Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI).
Science Highlights
What's new on the latest "Annual Review of Marine Sciences"
Submitted by Lei Han on Thu, 2016-02-04 05:36
Annual Review of Marine Science latest volume in 2016 is available online. The review papers with particular focus on CLIVAR's main themes.
The Benguela Upwelling System: Quantifying the Sensitivity to Resolution and Coastal Wind Representation in a Global Climate Model
Submitted by Nico on Fri, 2016-01-22 13:26
Of all the major coastal upwelling systems in the World’s ocean, the Benguela, located off south-west Africa, is the one which climate models find hardest to simulate well. Small et al. investigates the sensitivity of a climate model in this region
Can ocean models reproduce the observed signature of water cycle intensification?
Submitted by Nico on Wed, 2016-01-20 09:25
Global warming drives changes in the salinity and temperature of the ocean interior via modified air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater and momentum. Lago et al. study tries to elucidate how the knowledge of surface changes impact on the interior of the ocean over a long timescale.
Enhanced warming of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change
Submitted by Nico on Wed, 2016-01-06 14:16
Saba et al. compare simulations and an atmospheric CO2 doubling response from four NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) global climate models of varying ocean and atmosphere resolution to understand the enhanced warming of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change
AMOC and its role in long time scale climate variability and in prediction
Submitted by Nico on Sat, 2016-01-02 16:37
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is presumed to play a major role in decadal and longer time scale climate variability and in prediction of the Earth's future climate
How did deep Atlantic water masses evolve in the last 21 thousand years?
Submitted by Nico on Mon, 2015-11-23 06:27
What happened to the ocean circulation when all this meltwater entered the ocean at that time of deglaciation? This is what Marson et al. (2015) discuss in their study published last October in Climate Dynamics.
Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change
Submitted by Anna Pirani on Thu, 2015-10-08 21:24
A review that summarizes recent progress in dynamical studies of regional climate change, and highlights outstanding issues.
How is the Southern Ocean climate represented in ocean-sea ice models forced by the same atmospheric state?
Submitted by Anna Pirani on Thu, 2015-09-10 11:44
Time-mean and trends for the period 1948-2007 are analysed in a suite of global ocean-sea ice models forced with CORE-II forcing, focusing on the ACC, MOC, water masses and sea-ice evolution.
Unusual past dry and wet rainy seasons over Southern Africa and South America from a climate perspective
Submitted by Anna Pirani on Thu, 2015-09-10 11:05
This study shows how climate change due to humans has affected the probability that extreme events in South America and Southern Africa evolved in the way that they did.
