ATM S 591 Winter 2000

The Ocean in Climate

Instructor: Professor E. S. Sarachik
114/115 King Bldg., 543-6730
sarachik@atmos.washington.edu

Lectures: to be arranged

Format: Seminar form: The dominant course activity will be reading and discussing key papers. CR/NC

Prerequisites: The course can be taken by second year graduate students (and later) in the School of Oceanography, the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysics, who already have a background in basic fluid dynamics.


Course Outline

Readings

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.: Heat transport by currents across 25°N latitude in the Atlantic Ocean. Science, 207, 884-886.

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.

Thermohaline Circulation:

Hay, W.H., 1993: The role of polar deep water formation in global climate change. Ann. Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci., 21, 227-254.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.

Manabe, s., R.J. Stouffer, M.J. Spelman, and K. Bryan, 1991: Transient responses of a coupled atmosphere-ocean model to gradual changes of atmospheric CO2. Part I: Annual Mean Response. J. Climate, 4, 785-818.

Spelman, M.J., and S. Manabe, 1984: Influence of ocean heat transport upon the sensitivity of a model climate. J. Geophys. Res., 89, 571-586.

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.

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