Reading list
This will be updated throughout the term. The dates refer to the first day the reading is posted here.
Hartmann, Dennis L. (1994) “The Ocean General Circulation and Climate”, chapter 7 of Global Physical Climatology, Academic Press. 8/27/2013
Vallis, Geoffrey K. (2012) “The Ocean Circulation” and “The Ocean’s Overall Role in Climate”, chaps. 4 and 5 of Climate and the Oceans, Princeton University Press. 8/29/2013
Marshall, John and Kevin Speer (2012) “Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling”, Nature Geoscience 5, p.171-180. 9/6/2013
Vallis, Geoffrey K. (2006) “The Buoyancy-Driven Ocean Circulation”, chap. 15 of Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press. 9/11/2013
Wunsch, Carl (2002) “What is the Thermohaline Circulation?”, Science 298, p.1179-1181. 9/11/2013
Trenberth, Kevin E. and Julie M. Caron (2001) “Estimates of Meridional Atmosphere and Ocean Heat Transports”, J. Climate 16, p.3433-3443. 9/30/2013
Wunsch, Carl (2005) “The Total Meridional Heat Flux and Its Oceanic and Atmospheric Partition”, J. Climate 21, p. 4374-4380. 9/30/2013
Wang, Xiaoli, Peter H. Stone, and Jochem Marotzke (1995) “Poleward Heat Transport in a Barotropic Ocean Model”, J. Phys. Oceanogr. 25, p. 256-265. 10/4/2013
Stone, Peter H. (1978) “Constraints on dynamical transports of energy on a spherical planet”, Dyn. Atmos. Oceans 2, p. 123-139. 10/8/2013
Enderton, Daniel and John Marshall (2009) “Explorations of Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Climates on an Aquaplanet and Their Meridional Energy Transports”. J. Atmos. Sci. 66, p.1593-1611. 10/10/2013
Rose, Brian E. J., David Ferreira and John Marshall (2013) “The role of oceans and sea ice in abrupt transitions between multiple climate states”, J. Climate 26, p. 2862--2879. 10/29/2013
Stommel, Henry (1961) “Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow”, Tellus 13, p. 224--230. 11/4/2013
Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. (2002) “The hydrologic cycle in deep-time climate problems”, Nature 419 p. 191--198. 11/11/2013
Winton, Michael (2008) “Sea Ice--Albedo Feedback and Nonlinear Arctic Climate Change”, in Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications, Geophysical Monographs #180, American Geophysical Union. 11/11/2013
Yu, Jin-Yi and Hsun-Ying Kao (2007) “Decadal changes of ENSO persistence barrier in SST and ocean heat content indices: 1958--2001”, J. Geophys. Res. 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007654. 11/11/2013
Kao, Hsun-Ying and Jin-Yi Yu (2009) “Contrasting Eastern-Pacific and Central-Pacific Types of ENSO”, J. Climate 22, p. 615--632. 11/11/2013
LaRiviere, Jonathan et al. (2012) “Late Miocene decoupling of oceanic warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing”, Nature 486, doi:10.1038/nature11200. 12/5/2013
A. Federov et al. (2006) “The Pliocene Paradox (Mechanisms for a Permanent El Niño)”, Science 312, p. 1485--1489. 12/5/2013
Walker, J. D. and J. W. Geissman (2009) “Geologic Time Scle”, Geological Soc. America, doi:10.1130/2009.CTS004R2C. 12/5/2013
Rose, Brian E. J. and David Ferreira (2013) “Ocean heat transport and water vapor greenhouse in a warm equable climate: a new look at the low gradient paradox”, J. Climate 26, p. 2117--2136. 12/5/2013