Welcome to CGD's Oceanography Section
OS Research
The mission of the Oceanography Section (OS) is to understand the large-scale ocean circulation and the dynamics of climate through studies of the important processes in the ocean and sea-ice, in air-sea-ice interactions, and in coupled systems. Areas of focus include: Global Ocean and Sea-Ice Modeling, High Resolution Ocean Simulations, Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling, Air-sea-ice Interactions, and Forcing of the Ocean Circulation.
2009 CCSM Distinguished Achievement Award
Gokhan Danabasoglu is the recipient of the 2009 CCSM Distinguished Achievement Award. Gokhan has been instrumental in developing every version of the ocean component, starting from CCSM1. With Gokhan as co-chair of the Ocean Working Group, the ocean model component for CCSM4 was delivered on time, with everything incorporated as planned and more. It is our opinion that no one has been more key to this, and past versions of the ocean model than Gokhan. [more] [related] [Danabasoglu Profile]
Publication Highlights
Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity: Is It Accurate to Use a Slab Ocean Model? 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 2494-2499, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2596.1. Danabasoglu, G. and P. Gent. [Danabasoglu profile] [Gent profile]
Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) 2009: Ocean Modelling, 26, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.08.007. Griffies, et al. [Large profile] [Yeager profile]
Differences in the Indonesian seaway in a coupled climate model and their relevance to Pliocene climate and El Niño. 2009: Paleoceanography, 24, PA1212, doi:10.1029/2008PA001678, Jochum, M. B. Fox-Kemper, P.H. Molnar, and C. Shields. [M. Jochum profile] [C. Shields profile]
Recent Publications
Predicting 21st-century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models
Projections of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sea ice habitat distribution in the polar basin during the 21st century were developed to understand the consequences of anticipated sea ice reductions on polar bear populations. [article] [abstract]
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Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the decline of an emperor penguin population
Studies have reported important effects of recent climate change on Antarctic species, but there has been to our knowledge no attempt to explicitly link those results to forecasted population responses to climate change. [article] [abstract] [related]
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