The phrase
"coupled atmosphere" refers to the interaction between different parts of Earth's atmosphere with other components of the Earth's system. It describes how the atmosphere, together with the oceans, land surface, and ice, all work together and influence each other.
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Ideal candidates would have experience using climate models to perform sensitivity simulations and analyzing observations, reanalysis data and historical simulations of
global coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models from the CMIP5 archives.
I have broad training in both atmospheric science and oceanography, and I am particularly interested
in coupled atmosphere - ocean climate dynamics over long time scales.
Progress has become possible only recently, with the availability of a few long -
term coupled atmosphere - ocean simulations of the LGM climate.
This work has been supported by the NOPP project «
Advanced coupled atmosphere - wave - ocean modeling for improving tropical cyclone prediction models» (PIs: Isaac Ginis, URI and Shuyi Chen, UM) and by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Consortium for Advanced Research on the Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment — CARTHE (PI: Tamay Özgökmen, UM).
Abstract: Surface ocean wind datasets are required to be of high spatial and temporal resolution and high precision to accurately force or be assimilated
into coupled atmosphere - ocean numerical models and understand ocean - atmospheric processes.
«The Role of the Ocean in CO2 - Induced Climate Change: Preliminary Results from the
OSU Coupled Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model.»
Recently, modelers have undertaken a small number of studies
involving coupled atmosphere - ocean GCMs that attempted to quantify the importance of atmosphere - ocean interactions for climate change.
The figure at the top from Golaz et al, 2013 shows simulations from three versions of the
CM3 coupled atmosphere - ocean model developed at GFDL (Donner, et al 2011).
Meinshausen, M., S. C. B. Raper, and T. M. L. Wigley, 2011:
Emulating coupled atmosphere — ocean and carbon cycle models with a simpler model, MAGICC6 — Part 1: Model description and calibration.
The available data include the climate responses to each of the forcings for fixed SST simulations («Fixed SST Response») as well as for the
interactive coupled atmosphere - ocean model («100 - Year Response»).
In an ensemble of
fully coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) simulations of the late Paleocene and early Eocene, we identify such a circulation - driven enhanced intermediate - water warming.
Rind, D., G.L. Russell, G.A. Schmidt, S. Sheth, D. Collins, P. Demenocal, and J. Teller, 2001: Effects of glacial meltwater in the
GISS Coupled Atmosphere - Ocean Model: Part II: A bi-polar seesaw in Atlantic Deep Water production.
The climate projections for future DOC predictions were based
on coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models from the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCM3) and the U.S. Department of Energy / National Center for Atmospheric Research Parallel Climate Model (PCM) under two emissions scenarios.
In the study, the researchers use sophisticated simulations with a fully
coupled atmosphere - ocean model to investigate the effect of hemispheric stratospheric aerosol injection on North Atlantic tropical cyclone frequency.
CMIP was established as a resource for climate modelers, providing a standard protocol for studying the output of
coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models so that these models can be compared and validated.
Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of
the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.
Russell, G.L., J.R. Miller, and D. Rind, 1995:
A coupled atmosphere - ocean model for transient climate change studies.
Yokohata, T., et al., 2005: Climate response to volcanic forcing: Validation of climate sensitivity of
a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model.
Krinner, G., et al., 2005: A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of
the coupled atmosphere - biosphere system.
A multidecadal (50 - 80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean - atmosphere variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and
coupled Atmosphere - Ocean General Circulation Model («AOGCM») simulations.
This is a possibility in the abstract, but the present behavior of the climate system, the behavior of
coupled atmosphere - ocean models in modern conditions, and the record of Holocene climate changes do not give any hint that such a thing occurs.