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Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere by Ma, Xiaohui, Jing, Zhao, Chang, Ping, Liu, Xue, Montuoro, Raffaele, Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank O., Greatbatch, Richard J., Brandt, Peter, Wu, Dexing, Lin, Xiaopei, Wu, Lixin

“…In coupled climate model simulations the strength of major oceanic fronts associated with western boundary currents—tremendous conveyors of ocean heat towards…”
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Storm track response to ocean fronts in a global high-resolution climate model by Small, R. Justin, Tomas, Robert A, Bryan, Frank O

“…Synoptic atmospheric eddies are affected by lower tropospheric air-temperature gradients and by turbulent heat fluxes from the surface. In this study we…”
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What Drives Upper-Ocean Temperature Variability in Coupled Climate Models and Observations? by SMALL, R. JUSTIN, BRYAN, FRANK O., BISHOP, STUART P., LARSON, SARAH, TOMAS, ROBERT A.

“…A key question in climate modeling is to what extent sea surface temperature and upper-ocean heat content are driven passively by air–sea heat fluxes, as…”
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Simulated inventory and distribution of 137Cs released from multiple sources in the global ocean by Tsumune, Daisuke, Bryan, Frank O., Lindsay, Keith, Misumi, Kazuhiro, Tsubono, Takaki, Aoyama, Michio

“…Radioactive cesium (137Cs) is distributed in the world's oceans as a result of global fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, releases from fuel…”
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Impact of Stochastic Ocean Density Corrections on Air‐Sea Flux Variability by Agarwal, Niraj, Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank O., Grooms, Ian, Pegion, Philip J.

“…Air‐sea flux variability has contributions from both ocean and atmosphere at different spatio‐temporal scales. Atmospheric synoptic scales and the air‐sea…”
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The Impact of Oceanic Near-Inertial Waves on Climate by Jochum, Markus, Briegleb, Bruce P., Danabasoglu, Gokhan, Large, William G., Norton, Nancy J., Jayne, Steven R., Alford, Matthew H., Bryan, Frank O.

“…The Community Climate System Model, version 4 (CCSM4) is used to assess the climate impact of wind-generated near-inertial waves (NIWs). Even with…”
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A Diagnosis of Anisotropic Eddy Diffusion From a High‐Resolution Global Ocean Model by Bachman, Scott D., Fox‐Kemper, Baylor, Bryan, Frank O.

“…Oceanic mesoscale eddies are known to diffuse and stir tracers, and the development of skillful eddy closures is aided considerably by the accurate diagnosis…”
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Southern Ocean Deep Circulation and Heat Uptake in a High-Resolution Climate Model by Newsom, Emily R., Bitz, Cecilia M., Bryan, Frank O., Abernathey, Ryan, Gent, Peter R.

“…The dynamics of the lower cell of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) in the Southern Ocean are compared in two versions of a global climate model:…”
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Frontal Scale Air–Sea Interaction in High-Resolution Coupled Climate Models by Bryan, Frank O., Tomas, Robert, Dennis, John M., Chelton, Dudley B., Loeb, Norman G., McClean, Julie L.

“…The emerging picture of frontal scale air–sea interaction derived from high-resolution satellite observations of surface winds and sea surface temperature…”
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The Global Sink of Available Potential Energy by Mesoscale Air‐Sea Interaction by Bishop, Stuart P., Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank O.

“…The thermal component of oceanic eddy available potential energy (EPE) generation due to air‐sea interaction is proportional to the product of anomalous sea…”
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Assessing the Skill of the Improved Treatment of Riverine Freshwater in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Relative to a New Salinity Climatology by Sun, Qiang, Whitney, Michael M., Bryan, Frank O., Tseng, Yu‐heng

“…Recent studies have explored the sensitivity of global ocean model simulations to the treatment of riverine freshwater and the representation of estuarine…”
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Coupled Aqua and Ridge Planets in the Community Earth System Model by Wu, Xiaoning, Reed, Kevin A., Wolfe, Christopher L. P., Marques, Gustavo M., Bachman, Scott D., Bryan, Frank O.

“…Idealized models can reveal insights into Earth’s climate system by reducing its complexities. However, their potential is undermined by the scarcity of fully…”
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A prototype two-decade fully-coupled fine-resolution CCSM simulation by McClean, Julie L., Bader, David C., Bryan, Frank O., Maltrud, Mathew E., Dennis, John M., Mirin, Arthur A., Jones, Philip W., Kim, Yoo Yin, Ivanova, Detelina P., Vertenstein, Mariana, Boyle, James S., Jacob, Robert L., Norton, Nancy, Craig, Anthony, Worley, Patrick H.

“…► Presenting a new fine-resolution Community Climate System Model (CCSM) simulation. ► Components resolutions are 0.1° ocean and ice, and 0.25° atmosphere and…”
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Mechanisms of Mixed‐Layer Salinity Seasonal Variability in the Indian Ocean by Köhler, Julia, Serra, Nuno, Bryan, Frank O., Johnson, Benjamin K., Stammer, Detlef

“…Based on a joint analysis of an ensemble mean of satellite sea surface salinity retrievals and the output of a high‐resolution numerical ocean circulation…”
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Process‐Specific Contributions to Anomalous Java Mixed Layer Cooling During Positive IOD Events by Delman, Andrew S., McClean, Julie L., Sprintall, Janet, Talley, Lynne D., Bryan, Frank O.

“…Negative sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies associated with positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) events first appear in the seasonal upwelling zone along…”
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Scale Dependence of Midlatitude Air–Sea Interaction by Bishop, Stuart P., Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank O., Tomas, Robert A.

“…It has traditionally been thought that midlatitude sea surface temperature (SST) variability is predominantly driven by variations in air–sea surface heat…”
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Kuroshio pathways in a climatologically forced model by Douglass, Elizabeth M., Jayne, Steven R., Bryan, Frank O., Peacock, Synte, Maltrud, Mathew

“…A high-resolution ocean model forced with an annually repeating atmosphere is used to examine variability of the Kuroshio, the western boundary current in the…”
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Air–Sea Turbulent Heat Fluxes in Climate Models and Observational Analyses: What Drives Their Variability? by Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank O., Bishop, Stuart P., Tomas, Robert A.

“…A traditional view is that the ocean outside of the tropics responds passively to atmosphere forcing, which implies that air–sea heat fluxes are mainly driven…”
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Climate impacts of systematic errors in the simulation of the path of the North Atlantic Current by Weese, Scott R., Bryan, Frank O.

“…Experiments employing an adjustment of the pressure field in the ocean component of a coupled climate system model are undertaken in both ocean‐only and…”
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Can Southern Ocean Eddy Effects Be Parameterized in Climate Models? by Bryan, Frank O., Gent, Peter R., Tomas, Robert

“…Present-day control and 1%yr−1increasing carbon dioxide runs have been made using two versions of the Community Climate System Model, version 3.5. One uses the…”
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