Ocean Heat Transports:
Vonder Haar, T. H.,and Oort, A.H., 1973: New estimate of the annual poleward energy transport by Northern Hemisphere oceans. J. Phys. Oceanogr, 2, 169-172.
Oort, A.H. and T. H. Vonder Haar, 1976: On the observed annual cycle in the ocean-atmosphere heat balance over the Northern Hemisphere. J. Phys. Oceanogr, 6, 781-800.
Carissimo, B.C., A.H. Oort and T.H. Vonder Haar, 1985: Estimating the meridional energy transports in the atmosphere and ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 15, 82-91.
Trenberth, K.E. and A. Solomon, 1994: The global heat balance: heat transports in the atmosphere and ocean. Climate Dynamics, 10, 107-134.
Bryden, H.L., 1993: Ocean heat transport across 24ƒN latitude. In Interactions Between Global climate Subsystems: The Legacy of Hann. Geophysical Monographs 75, AGU Press, pp 65-75.
SST:
Sarachik, E.S., 1984: Large Scale Heat Fluxes at the Ocean Surface, in Large Scale Oceanographic Experiments and Satellites, NATO Advanced Study Institute, C. Gautier and M. Fieux, editors, Reidel Press, 147-167.
Sarachik, E.S., 1985: Modeling Sea-Surface Temperature and its variability, Proceedings of the First National Workshop on the Global Weather Experiment, National Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 765-778.
Ocean Freshwater Cycle:
Schmitt, R.W., 1994: The Ocean Freshwater Cycle. OOSDP Background Report No. 4, 32pp.
Webster, P.J., 1994: The role of hydrological processes in ocean-atmosphere interactions. Revs. Geophys., 32, 427-476.
Thermohaline Circulation:
Schmitz, Jr., W.J., 1995: On the interbasin-scale thermohaline circulation. Revs. Geophys., 33, 151-173.
The Carbon Cycle:
Siegenthaler, U., and J.L. Sarmiento, 1993: Atmospheric carbon dioxide and the ocean. Nature, 365, 119-125.
Sundquist, E.T., 1993: The global carbon dioxide budget. Science, 259, 934-941.
D. Schimel, I.G. Enting, M. Heimann, T.M.L. Wigley, D. Raynaud, D. Alves, U. Siegenthaler, 1995: CO2 and the Carbon Cycle. In Climate change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change. Edited by J.T. Houghton, L. G. Meira Filho, J. Bruce, H. Lee, B.A. Callender, E. Haites, N. Harris, and K. Maskell. Cambridege University Press, pp35-71.
Coupled Models:
Meehl, G.A., 1992: Global coupled models: atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice. InClimate System Modeling, K. Trenberth, editor. Cambridge Univ. Press, 555-581.
Manabe, S., and R.J. Stouffer, 1988: Two stable equilibria of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 1, 841-866.
Manabe, S., and R.J. Stouffer, 1994: Multiple century response of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. J. Climate, 7, 5-23.
BOOKS:
Recommended: The Open University, 1989: Ocean Circulation. Pergamon Press, 238 pp.
Background: Peixoto, J.P., and A.H. Oort, 1992: Physics of Climate. American Institute of Physics, 520pp. Trenberth, K.E., editor, 1992: Climate System Modeling. Cambridge University Press, 788pp.