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    North Atlantic air-sea interactions driven by atmospheric and oceanic stochastic forcing in a simple box model

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    Legatt, Rebecca Anne
    Keyword
    Ocean-atmosphere interaction
    North Atlantic Ocean
    Mathematical models
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12778
    Abstract
    "North Atlantic (NA) variability has wide-spread implications locally and globally. This study investigates mechanisms driving NA variability using a simple box model incorporating time evolution of interacting upper ocean temperature anomalies, horizontal (Gyre) and vertical (meridional overturning circulation, or MOC) circulation, driven by surface air temperature, wind, and Labrador Sea temperature forcings. Simulated upper ocean responses to external atmospheric forcing result in solutions with redder spectra than solutions by white noise atmospheric forcing, implying that the ocean acts as a low-pass filter to this external forcing. Simulated ocean dynamic response may be viewed as a response to a cumulative atmospheric forcing over an interval defined by system damping properties. A strong anti-correlation links simulated MOC and Gyre circulation intensity suggesting a mechanism, in which system heat balance is maintained via communication between the dynamic components, (e.g. excess of heat supply from a stronger Gyre circulation would be balanced by lack of heat from a weaker MOC circulation and vise versa). Wind was the dominant forcing for NA upper ocean temperature anomalies and the intensity of MOC and Gyre circulations. Further investigations of NA variability mechanisms are important as they have serious implications on global heat transport"--Leaf iii.
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    Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010
    Table of Contents
    1. Introduction -- 1.1. General overview of the North Atlantic Ocean -- 1.2. North Atlantic water masses -- 2. North Atlantic variability -- 2.1. North Atlantic atmospheric variability -- 2.2. North Atlantic oceanic variability -- 2.3. Mechanisms governing North Atlantic atmospheric variability -- 2.4. Mechanisms governing North Atlantic oceanic variability -- 2.5. Global and local impacts of North Atlantic variability -- 3. Model description -- 3.1. Governing equations -- 3.2. External stochastic forcings -- 3.2.1. Original observational time series -- 3.2.2. Stochastic forcing development -- 3.3. Numerical solutions of the governing equations -- 3.4. Model experimental design -- 4. Results of model experiments -- 4.1. Results of wind experiments -- 4.2. Results of SAT experiments -- 4.3. Results of labrador experiment -- 4.4. Results of general experiments -- 5. Conclusions -- 5.1. Summary -- 5.2. Main results and future work -- References -- Appendix A. Box model stability tests -- A.1. Numerical and analytical solutions for "MOC" experiment -- A.2. Numerical and analytical solutions for "Gyre" experiment -- A.3. Numerical and analytical solutions for "Ekman" experiment -- A.4. Numerical and analytical solutions for combined forcings -- Appendix B. Wind experiment -- Appendix C. SAT experiment -- Appendix D. Labrador experiment.
    Date
    2010-12
    Type
    Thesis
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