A set of simple analytical models is presented and evaluated for interannual to decadal coupled ocean– atmosphere modes at midlatitudes. The atmosphere and ocean are each in Sverdrup balance at these long timescales. The atmosphere’s temperature response to heating determines the spatial phase relation between SST and sea level pressure (SLP) anomalies. Vertical advection balancing heating produces high (low) SLP lying east of warm (cold) SST anomalies, as observed in the Antarctic circumpolar wave (ACW), the decadal North Pacific mode, and the interannual North Atlantic mode. Zonal advection in an atmosphere with a rigid lid produces low SLP east of warm SST. However, if an ad hoc equivalent barotropic atmospheric response is assumed, high...
As an alternative to the frequently used mixed boundary conditions in ocean GCM’s, we present a dyna...
Globally forced model simulations with an atmospheric general circulation model of intermediate comp...
International audienceThe last 810 years of a control integration with the ECHAM1/LSG coupled model ...
A zonally averaged ocean model for the thermohaline circulation is coupled to a zonally averaged, on...
International audienceThis study examines mid-latitude climate variability in a model that couples t...
Processes that cause decadal variability in an intermediate coupled ocean–atmosphere model of the Pa...
The dependence of the air–sea interactions over the North Atlantic on the ocean dynamics is explored...
We describe in this paper a mechanism for decadal climate variability that can lead to decadal clima...
International audienceAtmospheric response to a mid-latitude sea surface temperature (SST) front is ...
The control climates of two coupled climate models are intercompared. The first is the third climate...
A midlatitude coupled ocean–atmosphere model is used to investigate interactions between the atmosph...
The role of upper ocean dynamics in generating interdecadal sea surface temperature (SST) variations...
A linear perturbation, coupled ocean–atmosphere model is revisited for further insights into the El ...
Interannual-to-interdecadal ocean-atmosphere interaction in midlatitudes is studied using an idealiz...
Ocean models are used to investigate how variations in surface heat fluxes and ocean heat transports...
As an alternative to the frequently used mixed boundary conditions in ocean GCM’s, we present a dyna...
Globally forced model simulations with an atmospheric general circulation model of intermediate comp...
International audienceThe last 810 years of a control integration with the ECHAM1/LSG coupled model ...
A zonally averaged ocean model for the thermohaline circulation is coupled to a zonally averaged, on...
International audienceThis study examines mid-latitude climate variability in a model that couples t...
Processes that cause decadal variability in an intermediate coupled ocean–atmosphere model of the Pa...
The dependence of the air–sea interactions over the North Atlantic on the ocean dynamics is explored...
We describe in this paper a mechanism for decadal climate variability that can lead to decadal clima...
International audienceAtmospheric response to a mid-latitude sea surface temperature (SST) front is ...
The control climates of two coupled climate models are intercompared. The first is the third climate...
A midlatitude coupled ocean–atmosphere model is used to investigate interactions between the atmosph...
The role of upper ocean dynamics in generating interdecadal sea surface temperature (SST) variations...
A linear perturbation, coupled ocean–atmosphere model is revisited for further insights into the El ...
Interannual-to-interdecadal ocean-atmosphere interaction in midlatitudes is studied using an idealiz...
Ocean models are used to investigate how variations in surface heat fluxes and ocean heat transports...
As an alternative to the frequently used mixed boundary conditions in ocean GCM’s, we present a dyna...
Globally forced model simulations with an atmospheric general circulation model of intermediate comp...
International audienceThe last 810 years of a control integration with the ECHAM1/LSG coupled model ...