• New approaches to investigate the influence of orographic and dynamic blocking on large-scale atmospheric flow 

      Spensberger, Clemens (Doctoral thesis, 2015-01-15)
      Orographic and dynamic blocks have a profound influence on both weather and climate. The persistence of dynamic blocks can, for example, lead to the build-up of extreme temperature anomalies or droughts. In addition, ...
    • A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° ×  1° GLODAP version 2 

      Lauvset, Siv Kari; Key, Robert M.; Olsen, Are; van Heuven, Steven; Velo, Antón; Lin, Xiaohua; Schirnick, Carsten; Kozyr, Alex; Tanhua, Toste; Hoppema, Mario; Jutterström, Sara; Steinfeldt, Reiner; Jeansson, Emil; Ishii, Masao; Pérez, Fiz F.; Suzuki, Toru; Watelet, Sylvain (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-15)
      We present a mapped climatology (GLODAPv2.2016b) of ocean biogeochemical variables based on the new GLODAP version 2 data product (Olsen et al., 2016; Key et al., 2015), which covers all ocean basins over the years 1972 ...
    • A new interpretative framework for below-cloud effects on stable water isotopes in vapour and rain 

      Graf, Pascal; Wernli, Heini; Pfahl, Stephan; Sodemann, Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01-22)
      Raindrops interact with water vapour in ambient air while sedimenting from the cloud base to the ground. They constantly exchange water molecules with the environment and, in sub-saturated air, they evaporate partially or ...
    • New layer thickness parameterization of diffusive convection in the ocean 

      Zhou, Sheng-Qi; Lu, Yuan-Zheng; Song, Xue-Long; Fer, Ilker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-03)
      In the present study, a new parameterization is proposed to describe the convecting layer thickness in diffusive convection. By using in situ observational data of diffusive convection in the lakes and oceans, a wide range ...
    • A New Look at Deformation as a Diagnostic for Large-Scale Flow 

      Spensberger, Clemens; Spengler, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11)
      Deformation plays a key role in atmospheric dynamics because it provides a dynamical measure of the interaction between different scales, such as in frontogenesis. A climatology of deformation constructed from Interim ECMWF ...
    • A new roughness length parameterization accounting for wind-wave (mis)alignment 

      Porchetta, Sara; Temel, Orkun; Munoz-Esparza, Domingo; Reuder, Joachim; Monbaliu, Jaak; Van Beeck, Jeroen; van Lipzig, Nicole (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-20)
      Two-way feedback occurs between offshore wind and waves. However, the influence of the waves on the wind profile remains understudied, in particular the momentum transfer between the sea surface and the atmosphere. Previous ...
    • A new roughness length parameterization accounting for wind-wave (mis)alignment 

      Porchetta, Sara; Temel, Orkun; Munoz-Esparza, Domingo; Reuder, Joachim; Monbaliu, Jaak; Van Beeck, Jeroen; van Lipzig, Nicole (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-20)
      Two-way feedback occurs between offshore wind and waves. However, the influence of the waves on the wind profile remains understudied, in particular the momentum transfer between the sea surface and the atmosphere. Previous ...
    • Non-Equilibrium Fractionation Factors for D/H and 18O/16O During Oceanic Evaporation in the North-West Atlantic Region 

      Zannoni, Daniele; Steen-Larsen, Hans Christian; Peters, A.J.; Wahl, Sonja; Sodemann, Harald; Sveinbjörnsdóttir, A.E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Ocean isotopic evaporation models, such as the Craig-Gordon model, rely on the description of nonequilibrium fractionation factors that are, in general, poorly constrained. To date, only a few gradient-diffusion type ...
    • Nonlinear response of atmospheric blocking to early Winter Barents-Kara seas warming: An idealized model study 

      Chen, Xiaodan; Luo, Dehai; Wu, Yutian; Dunn-Sigouin, Etienne; Lu, Jian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Wintertime Ural blocking (UB) has been shown to play an important role in cold extremes over Eurasia, and thus it is useful to investigate the impact of warming over the Barents–Kara Seas (BKS) on the behavior of Ural ...
    • Nonstationarity of the link between the Tropics and the summer East Atlantic pattern 

      Rieke, Ole; Greatbatch, Richard J.; Gollan, Gereon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      A 700-year pre-industrial control run with the MPI-ESM-LR model is used to investigate the link between the summer East Atlantic (SEA) pattern and the Pacific-Caribbean rainfall dipole (PCD), a link that has previously ...
    • NORA10EI: A revised regional atmosphere-wave hindcast for the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea 

      Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind; Reistad, Magnar; Aarnes, Ole Johan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      NORA10EI, a new atmosphere and wave hindcast for the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and the Barents Sea is presented. The hindcast uses ERA‐Interim as initial and boundary conditions and covers the period 1979–2017. The ...
    • NORA3-WP: A high-resolution offshore wind power dataset for the Baltic, North, Norwegian, and Barents Seas 

      Solbrekke, Ida Marie; Sorteberg, Asgeir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We present a new high resolution wind resource and wind power dataset named NORA3-WP. The dataset covers the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and parts of the Norwegian and Barents Seas. The 3-km Norwegian reanalysis (NORA3) forms ...
    • NORA3. Part II: Precipitation and Temperature Statistics in Complex Terrain Modeled with a Nonhydrostatic Model 

      Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The 3-km Norwegian Reanalysis (NORA3) is a convection-permitting, nonhydrostatic hindcast for the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea as well as the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has a horizontal resolution of ...
    • Nora3: A nonhydrostatic high-resolution hindcast of the North sea, the Norwegian sea, and the Barents sea 

      Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard; Reistad, Magnar; Bohlinger, Patrik; Aarnes, Ole Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The 3-km Norwegian Reanalysis (NORA3) is a 15-yr mesoscale-permitting atmospheric hindcast of the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea. With a horizontal resolution of 3 km, the nonhydrostatic numerical weather ...
    • NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP 

      Bethke, Ingo; Wang, Yiguo; Counillon, Francois Stephane; Keenlyside, Noel Sebastian; Kimmritz, Madlen; Fransner, Filippa; Samuelsen, Annette; Langehaug, Helene R.; Svendsen, Lea; Chiu, Ping-Gin; Passos, Leilane G.; Bentsen, Mats; Guo, Chuncheng; Gupta, Alok Kumar; Tjiputra, Jerry; Kirkevåg, Alf; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo; Seland, Øyvind; Vågane, Julie Solsvik; Fan, Yuanchao; Eldevik, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Norwegian Climate Prediction Model version 1 (NorCPM1) is a new research tool for performing climate reanalyses and seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions. It combines the Norwegian Earth System Model version 1 (NorESM1) ...
    • Nordic Seas Heat Loss, Atlantic Inflow, and Arctic Sea Ice cover over the last century 

      Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Muilwijk, Morven; Eldevik, Tor; Årthun, Marius; Brakstad, Ailin; Madonna, Erica; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Spensberger, Clemens; Born, Andreas; Drange, Helge; Jeansson, Emil; Li, Camille; Olsen, Are; Skagseth, Øystein; Slater, Donald; Straneo, Fiammetta; Våge, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Poleward ocean heat transport is a key process in the earth system. We detail and review the northward Atlantic Water (AW) flow, Arctic Ocean heat transport, and heat loss to the atmosphere since 1900 in relation to sea ...
    • North Atlantic 20th century multidecadal variability in coupled climate models: sea surface temperature and ocean overturning circulation 

      Medhaug, Iselin; Furevik, Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-06-06)
      Output from a total of 24 state-of-the-art Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models is analyzed. The models were integrated with observed forcing for the period 1850–2000 as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
    • North Atlantic Modulation of Interdecadal Variations in Hot Drought Events over Northeastern China 

      Li, Huixin; He, Shengping; Gao, Yongqi; Chen, Huopo; Wang, Huijun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Based on the long-term reanalysis datasets and the multivariate copula method, this study reveals that the frequency of summer hot drought events (SHDEs) over northeastern China (NEC) shows interdecadal variations during ...
    • North Atlantic multi-decadal variability - mechanisms and predictability 

      Keenlyside, Noel; Ba, Jin; Mecking, Jennifer V.; Omrani, Nour-Eddine; Latif, Mojib; Zhang, Rong; Msadek, Rym (World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015-10)
      The North Atlantic Ocean undergoes pronounced basin-wide, multi-decadal variations. The corresponding fluctuations in sea surface temperature (SST) have become known as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO) or ...
    • North Atlantic multidecadal variability in coupled climate models - Mechanisms and responses 

      Medhaug, Iselin (Doctoral thesis, 2011-05-06)
      Global atmosphere-ocean general circulation models have been used to investigate mechanisms controlling the North Atlantic low-frequency variability, with the focus on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the ...