SIO 209 (Spring 2001)

Syllabus

Background Notes

My EOF Notes

Mike Wallace Class Notes on EOF and SVD Analyses

Sverdrup Transport Notes

Observed atmosphere-ocean variability (April 2 and 9)

• Wallace, J. M., C. Smith, and Q. Jiang, 1990: Spatial patterns of atmosphere-ocean interaction in the northern winter. J. Climate, 3, 990-998
• Deser, C., and M. L. Blackmon, 1993: Surface climate variations over the north Atlantic Ocean during winter: 1900-1989. J. Climate, 6, 1743-1753
• Mantua, N. J., S. R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J. M. Wallace, and R. C. Francis, 1997: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 1069-1079

Surface flux forcing (April 9)

• Cayan, D. R., 1992: Latent and sensible heat flux anomalies over the northern oceans: driving the sea surface temperature. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 22, 859-881
• Luksch, U., and H. von Storch, 1992: Modeling the low-frequency sea surface temperature variability in the North Pacific. J. Climate, 5, 893-906

Tropical connections (April 16)

• Alexander, M. A., 1992: Midlatitude atmosphere-ocean interaction during El Nino. Part I: the North Pacific ocean. J. Climate, 5, 944-958
• Zhang, Y., J. M. Wallace, and D. S. Battisti, 1997: ENSO-like interdecadal variability: 1900-93. J. Climate, 10, 1004-1020
• Gu, D., and S. G. H. Philander, 1997: Interdecadal climate fluctuations that depend on exchanges between the Tropics and extratropics. Science, 275, 805-807
• Hoerling, M. P., J. W. Hurrell, and T. Xu, 2001: Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change. Science, 292, 90-92

Atmospheric response to midlatitude ocean (April 23 and 30)

• Rodwell, M. J., D. P. Rowell, and C. K. Folland, 1999: Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate. Nature, 398, 320-323
• Bretherton, C. S., and D. S. Battisti, 2000: An interpretation of the results from atmospheric general circulation models forced by the time history of the observed sea surface temperature distribution. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 767-770

Stochastic climate models (April 30 and May 7)

• (for reference) Hasselmann, K., 1976: Stochastic climate models. Part I: theory. Tellus, 28, 473-485
• Frankignoul, C., and K. Hasselmann, 1977: Stochastic climate models. Part II: application to sea-surface temperature anomalies and thermocline variability. Tellus, 29, 289-305
• Saravanan, R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1998: Advective ocean-atmosphere interaction: an analytic stochastic model with implications for decadal variability. J. Climate, 11, 165-188

Wind stress forcing (May 7 and 21)

• Deser, C., M. A. Alexander, and M. S. Timlin, 1999: Evidence for a wind-driven intensification of the Kuroshio Current Extension from the 1970s to the 1980s. J. Climate, 12, 1697-1706
• Junge, M. M., J.-S. von Storch, and J. M. Oberhuber, 2000: Large-scale variability of the main thermocline excited by stochastic wind stress forcing. J. Climate, 13, 2833-2840
• Latif, M., and S. Venzke, 2000: Comments on "Evidence for a wind-driven intensification of the Kuroshio Current Extension from the 1970s ot the 1980s". J. Climate, 13, 1994
• Deser, C., M. A. Alexander, and M. S. Timlin, 2000: Reply. J. Climate, 13, 1995

Class cancelled (May 14)

Atmosphere-ocean gyre coupling (May 30 NOTE DAY CHANGE)

• Latif, M., and T. P. Barnett, 1996: Decadal climate variability over the North Pacific and North America: dynamics and predictability. J. Climate, 9, 2407-2423
• Grotzner, A., M. Latif, and T. P. Barnett, 1998: A decadal climate cycle in the North Atlantic Ocean as simulated by the ECHO coupled GCM. J. Climate, 11, 831-847

Atmosphere-thermohaline coupling (June 4)

• Delworth, T., S. Manabe, and R. J. Stouffer, 1993: Interdecadal variations of the thermohaline circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 6, 1993-2011
• Timmermann, A., M. Latif, R. Voss, and A. Grotzner, 1998: Northern Hemisphere interdecadal variability: a coupled air-sea mode. J. Climate, 11, 1906-1931