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    • On the future of Argo: A global, full-depth, multi-disciplinary array 

      Roemmich, Dean; Alford, Matthew H.; Claustre, Herve; Johnson, Kenneth S.; King, Brian; Moum, James; Oke, Peter R.; Owens, W. Brechner; Pouliquen, Sylvie; Purkey, Sarah; Scanderbeg, Megan; Suga, Toshio; Wijffels, Susan E.; Zilberman, Nathalie; Bakker, Dorothee; Baringer, Molly O.; Belbeoch, Mathieu; Bittig, Henry C.; Boss, Emmanuel; Calil, Paulo; Carse, Fiona; Carval, Thierry; Chai, Fei; Conchubhair, Diarmuid Ó.; D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio; Dall'Olmo, Giorgio; Desbruyeres, Damien; Fennel, Katja; Fer, Ilker; Ferrari, Raffaele; Forget, Gael; Freeland, Howard; Fujiki, Tetsuichi; Gehlen, Marion; Greenan, Blair; Hallberg, Robert; Hibiya, Toshiyuki; Hosoda, Shigeki; Jayne, Steven; Jochum, Markus; Johnson, Gregory C.; Kang, KiRyong; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Körtzinger, Arne; Le Traon, Pierre-Yves; Lenn, Yueng-Djern; Maze, Guillaume; Mork, Kjell Arne; Morris, Tamaryn; Nagai, Takeyoshi; Nash, Jonathan; Garabato, Alberto N.; Olsen, Are; Pattabhi, Rama R.; Prakash, Satya; Riser, Stephen; Schmechtig, Catherin; Shroyer, Emily; Sterl, Andreas; Sutton, Philip; Talley, Lynne; Tanhua, Toste; Thierry, Virginie; Thomalla, Sandy; Toole, John; Troisi, Ariel; Trull, Thomas W.; Turton, Jonathan D.; Vélez-Belchi, Pedro Joaquin; Walczowski, Waldemar; Wang, Haili; Wanninkhof, Rik; Waterhouse, Amy F.; Watson, Andrew; Wilson, Cara; Wong, Annie P.S.; Xu, Jianping; Yasuda, Ichiro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-02)
      The Argo Program has been implemented and sustained for almost two decades, as a global array of about 4000 profiling floats. Argo provides continuous observations of ocean temperature and salinity versus pressure, from ...

    • On the Groupiness and Intermittency of Oceanic Whitecaps 

      Malila, Mika Petteri; Thomson, J.; Breivik, Øyvind; Benetazzo, A.; Scanlon, B.; Ward, B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The enhancement of wave breaking activity during wave group passage is investigated using coherent field observations of the instantaneous sea surface elevation and whitecap coverage from platform-based stereo video ...

    • On the Influence of Latent and Sensible Heating for Maintaining Baroclinicity in the Gulf Stream Region 

      Dahl-Eriksen, Ståle (Master thesis, 2016-06-01)
      For the North Atlantic storm track to collocate with the ocean front, there has to be efficient restoring mechanisms for baroclinicity. The total diabatic heating is agreed to play the most dominant role, but whether the ...

    • On the Influence of Sea Surface Temperature distributions on the Development of Extratropical Cyclones 

      Bui, Hai Hoang; Spengler, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The sea surface temperature (SST) distribution can modulate the development of extratropical cyclones through sensible and latent heat fluxes. However, the direct and indirect effects of these surface fluxes, and thus the ...

    • On the Influence of Sea Surface Temperatures on Cyclone Characteristics in the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Region 

      Tsopouridis, Leonidas (Doctoral thesis, 2021-01-29)
      The Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio are the western boundary currents in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, respectively and are associated with maxima in midlatitude precipitation and air-sea heat exchange in the midlatitudes. ...

    • On the Influence of Small-Scale Topography on Dense Plumes, with a Special Focus on the Filchner Overflow Plume 

      Darelius, Elin Maria K. (Doctoral thesis, 2007-10-05)

    • On the link between cold fronts and hail in Switzerland 

      Schemm, Sebastian; Nisi, Luca; Martinov, Andrey; Leuenberger, Daniel; Martius, Olivia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05)
      Hail is the costliest atmospheric hazard in Switzerland, causing substantial damage to agriculture, cars and buildings every year. In this study, a 12-year statistic of objectively identified cold fronts and a radar-based ...

    • On the modulation of the periodicity of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow instabilities 

      Darelius, Elin Maria K.; Fer, Ilker; Rasmussen, Till; Guo, Chuncheng; Larsen, Karin Margretha Húsgarð (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-26)
      The Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) is one of the ma- jor pathways where dense, cold water formed in the Nordic Seas flows southward as a bottom-attached energetic plume towards the North Atlantic. The plume region downstream of ...

    • On the nature of the factors that control spring bloom development at the entrance to the Barents Sea and their interannual variability 

      Olsen, Are; Johannessen, Truls; Rey, Francisco (Journal article, 2003-12)
      Analysis of data obtained by the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, at their regular surveys of the Fugløya-Bjørnøya section, between the northern tip of Norway and Bear Island, has allowed for an identification of the ...

    • On the Nordic Seas’ role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 

      Iovino, Doroteaciro (Doctoral thesis, 2007-06-27)
      In the present climate, the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) plays a fundamental role in the global transport of heat at high latitudes. The response of the North Atlantic Ocean-Nordic Seas THC to surface ...

    • On the Origins of Open Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zones 

      Davila, Xabier; Olsen, Are; Lauvset, Siv Kari; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Brakstad, Ailin; Gebbie, Geoffrey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Recent work suggests that Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) are sustained by the supply of oxygen-poor waters rather than the export of organic matter from the local surface layer and its subsequent remineralization inside OMZs. ...

    • On the potential of 230Th, 231Pa, and 10Be for marine rain ratio determinations: A modeling study 

      Heinze, Christoph; Gehlen, M.; Land, C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-06-16)
      The global distributions of the radionuclides 230Th, 231Pa, and 10Be are simulated with a biogeochemical ocean general circulation model. Sensitivity experiments for changes in the composition of the particle composition ...

    • On the recent time history and forcing of the inflow of Atlantic Water to the Arctic Mediterranean 

      Nilsen, Jan Even Øie; Hátún, Hjalmar; Sandø, Anne Britt; Bethke, Ingo; Laurantin, Olivier; Gao, Yongqi; Drange, Helge; Furevik, Tore (Extended Abstract for The ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic, Conference lecture, 2004)

    • On the seasonal signal of the Filchner overflow, Weddell Sea, Antarctica 

      Darelius, Elin Maria K.; Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Østerhus, Svein; Gammelsrød, Tor; Årthun, Marius; Fer, Ilker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      The cold ice shelf water (ISW) that formed below the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in the southwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, escapes the ice shelf cavity through the Filchner Depression and spills over its sill at a rate of ...

    • On the Use of Dual Co-Polarized Radar Data to Derive a Sea Surface Doppler Model - Part 2: Simulation and Validation 

      Fan, Shengren; Zhang, Biao; Moiseev, Artem; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Johannessen, Johnny Andre; Chapron, Bertrand (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Doppler shift obtained from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements comprises the combined contribution to the radial motion of the ocean surface induced by the sea state (wind waves and swell) and underlying surface ...

    • On the utility of individual tendency output: Revealing interactions between parameterized processes during a marine cold air outbreak 

      Kähnert, Marvin; Sodemann, Harald; de Rooy, Wim; Valkonen, Teresa Maaria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Forecasts of marine cold air outbreaks critically rely on the interplay of multiple parameterization schemes to represent subgrid-scale processes, including shallow convection, turbulence, and microphysics. Even though ...

    • One more step toward a warmer Arctic 

      Polyakov, Igor V.; Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka; Carmack, Eddy C.; Dmitreko, Igor A.; Fahrbach, E.; Frolov, Ivan E.; Gerdes, Rüdiger; Hansen, Edmond; Holfort, Jürgen; Ivanov, Vladimir V.; Johnson, Mark A.; Karcher, Michael; Kauker, Frank; Morison, James; Orvik, Kjell Arild; Schauer, Ursula; Simmons, Harper L.; Skagseth, Øystein; Sokolov, Vladimir T.; Steele, Michael; Timokhov, Leonid A.; Walsh, David; Walsh, John E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-09-09)
      This study was motivated by a strong warming signal seen in mooring-based and oceanographic survey data collected in 2004 in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean. The source of this and earlier Arctic Ocean changes lies ...

    • One-dimensional evolution of the upper water column in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean in winter 

      Fer, Ilker; Peterson, Algot Kristoffer; Randelhoff, Achim; Meyer, Amelie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)
      A one-dimensional model is employed to reproduce the observed time evolution of hydrographic properties in the upper water column during winter, between 26 January and 11 March 2015, in a region north of Svalbard in the ...

    • A one-year comparison of new wind atlases over the North Sea 

      Cheynet, Etienne; Solbrekke, Ida Marie; Diezel, Jan Markus; Reuder, Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) and the Norwegian hindcast archive (NORA3) database have become publicly available since the end of 2019 and mid-2021, respectively. They aim to model the long-term wind climatology with ...

    • Open-source feature-tracking algorithm for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery 

      Muckenhuber, Stefan; Korosov, Anton Andreevich; Sandven, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-26)
      A computationally efficient, open-source feature-tracking algorithm, called ORB, is adopted and tuned for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images. The most suitable setting and parameter ...