Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions During Cyclone Nargis

Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and Primary Productivity

Modeling Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions and Primary Productivity

A review of tropical ocean–atmosphere interactions

Enormous strides have been made towards the goal of operational predictions of seasonal and interannual climate fluctuations, especially as regards the phenomenon El Niño. To initialize models, measurements are available from an impressive array of instruments that monitor the tropical Pacific continually; coupled general circulation models of the ocean and atmosphere are already capable of rep...

Sensitivity of an Ocean-Atmosphere Coupled Model to the Coupling Method : Study of Tropical Cyclone Erica

In this paper, the sensitivity of Atmospheric and Oceanic Coupled Models (AOCMs) to the associated coupling method is investigated. We propose the adaptation of a Schwarzlike domain decomposition method to AOCMs. We show that this kind of iterative process ensures a good consistency of the coupled solution across the air-sea interface, while usual ad-hoc algorithmic approaches do not properly s...

Stable Boundary Layer and Its Impact on Tropical Cyclone Structure in a Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Model

The atmospheric boundary layer (BL) in tropical cyclones (TCs) connects deep convection within rainbands and the eyewall to the air–sea interface. Although the importance of the BL in TCs has been widely recognized in recent studies, how physical processes affect TC structure and intensity are still not well understood. This study focuses on a particular physical mechanism through which a TC-in...