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The Signature of Oceanic Processes in Decadal Extratropical SST Anomalies
The relationship between decadal sea surface temperature (SST) and turbulent heat fluxes is assessed and used to identify where oceanic …
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The relationship between a deformation-based eddy parameterization and the LANS-α turbulence model
A recent class of ocean eddy parameterizations proposed by Porta Mana and Zanna (2014) and Anstey and Zanna (2017) modeled the …
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Southern Ocean carbon-wind stress feedback
The Southern Ocean is the largest sink of anthropogenic carbon in the present-day climate. Here, Southern Ocean 𝑝CO2 and its dependence …
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Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices
Lagrangian analysis is a powerful way to analyse the output of ocean circulation models and other ocean velocity data such as from …
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The Dynamical Influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on Continental Climate
The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) in sea surface temperature (SST) has been shown to influence the climate of the surrounding …
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The Impact of Horizontal Resolution on Energy Transfers in Global Ocean Models
The ocean is a turbulent fluid with processes acting on a variety of spatio-temporal scales. The estimates of energy fluxes between …
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Stochastic Subgrid-Scale Ocean Mixing: Impacts on Low-Frequency Variability
In global ocean models, the representation of small-scale, high-frequency processes considerably influences the large-scale oceanic …
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A note on ‘Toward a stochastic parameterization of ocean mesoscale eddies’
Porta Mana and Zanna (2014) recently proposed a subgrid-scale parameterization for eddy-permitting quasigeostrophic models. In this …
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The statistical nature of turbulent barotropic ocean jets
Jets are an important element of the global ocean circulation. Since these jets are turbulent, it is important that they are …
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Scale-Aware Deterministic and Stochastic Parametrizations of Eddy-Mean Flow Interaction
The role of mesoscale eddies is crucial for the ocean circulation and its energy budget. The sub-grid scale eddy variability needs to …
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