U.S. CLIVAR Bibliography

Publications from the Climate Process Teams (CPTs)

• Mixing and Entrainment in the Red Sea Outflow Plume. Part I: Plume Structure, Hartmut Peters,  William E. Johns,  Amy S. Bower, and David M. Fratantoni, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 35, Issue 5 (May 2005) pp. 569–583
• Mixing and Entrainment in the Red Sea Outflow Plume. Part II: Turbulence Characteristics, Hartmut Peters and William E. Johns, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 35, Issue 5 (May 2005) pp. 584–600
• The Climate Sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3), Jeffrey T. Kiehl,  Christine A. Shields,  James J. Hack, and William D. Collins, Journal of Climate, Volume 19, Issue 11 (June 2006) pp. 2584–2596
• How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes?, Sandrine Bony,  Robert Colman,  Vladimir M. Kattsov,  Richard P. Allan,  Christopher S. Bretherton, Jean-Louis Dufresne,  Alex Hall,  Stephane Hallegatte,  Marika M. Holland,  William Ingram,  David A. Randall,  Brian J. Soden,  George Tselioudis, and Mark J. Webb, Journal of Climate, Volume 19, Issue 15 (August 2006) pp. 3445–3482
• Bottom Layer Turbulence in the Red Sea Outflow Plume, Hartmut Peters and William E. Johns, Journal of Physical Oceanography  
  Volume 36, Issue 9 (September 2006) pp. 1763–1785
• Is the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow Hydraulically Controlled?, James B. Girton,  Lawrence J. Pratt,  David A. Sutherland, and James F. Price, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 36, Issue 12 (December 2006) pp. 2340–2349
• Changes of the Boreal Winter Hadley Circulation in the NCEP–NCAR and ECMWF Reanalyses: A Comparative Study, Hua Song and Minghua Zhang, Journal of Climate, Volume 20, Issue 20 (October 2007) pp. 5191
• Numerical Simulation of the Red Sea Outflow Using HYCOM and Comparison with REDSOX Observations, Yeon S. Chang,  Tamay M. Özgökmen,  Hartmut Peters, and Xiaobiao Xu, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 38, Issue 2 (February 2008) pp. 337–358
• Mechanisms of Low Cloud–Climate Feedback in Idealized Single-Column Simulations with the Community Atmospheric Model, Version 3 (CAM3), Minghua Zhang and Christopher Bretherton, Journal of Climate   Volume 21, Issue 18 (September 2008) pp. 4859–4878
• Sensitivity of an Ocean General Circulation Model to a Parameterization of Near-Surface Eddy Fluxes, Gokhan Danabasoglu,  Raffaele Ferrari, and James C. McWilliams, Journal of Climate, Volume 21, Issue 6 (March 2008) pp. 1192–1208
• The Upper-Oceanic Response to Overflows: A Mechanism for the Azores Current, Shinichiro Kida,  James F. Price, and Jiayan Yang, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 38, Issue 4 (April 2008) pp. 880–895
• A Parameterization of Shear-Driven Turbulence for Ocean Climate Models, L. Jackson,  R. Hallberg, and S. Legg
  Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 38, Issue 5 (May 2008) pp. 1033–1053
• Parameterization of Eddy Fluxes near Oceanic Boundaries, Raffaele Ferrari,  James C. McWilliams,  Vittorio M. Canuto, and Mikhail Dubovikov, Journal of Climate, Volume 21, Issue 12 (June 2008) pp. 2770–278
• Parameterization of Mixed Layer Eddies. Part I: Theory and Diagnosis, Baylor Fox-Kemper,  Raffaele Ferrari, and Robert Hallberg, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Volume 38, Issue 6 (June 2008) pp. 1145–1165
• Parameterization of Mixed Layer Eddies. Part II: Prognosis and Impact
• Improving Oceanic Overflow Representation in Climate Models: The Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team, Sonya Legg, Tal Ezer, Laura Jackson, Bruce Briegleb, Gokhan Danabasoglu, William Large, Wanli Wu, Yeon Chang, Tamay M. Özgökmen, Hartmut Peters, Xiaobiao Xu, Eric P. Chassignet, Arnold L. Gordon, Stephen Griffies, Robert Hallberg, Jim Price, Ulrike Riemenschneider, Jiayan Yang, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 90, Issue 5 (May 2009) pp. 657-670
• Virtual Field Campaigns on Deep Tropical Convection in Climate Models, Brian Mapes, Julio Bacmeister, Marat Khairoutdinov, Cecile Hannay, Ming Zhao, Journal of Climate, Volume 22, Issue 2 (January 2009) pp. 244-257
• A Simple Model of Climatological Rainfall and Vertical Motion Patterns over the Tropical Oceans, Larissa E. Back, Christopher S. Bretherton, Journal of Climate, Volume 22, Issue 23 (December 2009) pp. 6477-6497

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New Western Boundary Current paper published - Role of Gulf Stream, Kuroshio-Oyashio and Their Extensions in Large-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction : A Review, J. Climate, 15 June 2010, Vol. 23, pp 3249-3281

2010 Workshop on Evaluation of ReanalysesNovember 1-3, Baltimore, Maryland

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April 2010 - Surface Fluxes: Challenges for High Latitudes - presentations posted

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