Frank Bryan 

Contact Information

Oceanography Section
Climate and Global Dynamics Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado
80307 USA

E-mail: bryan@ncar.ucar.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Princeton University, 1986

M.A. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Princeton University, 1984

B.S. (cum laude) in Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, 1981

Employment
 

 

July 1996 - present	Scientist III
July 1991 - June 1996	Scientist II
October 1987 - June 1991	Scientist I  Oceanography Section  Climate and Global Dynamics Division  National Center for Atmospheric Research  Boulder, Colorado
December 1985 - October 1987	Postdoctoral Fellow  Advanced Study Program  National Center for Atmospheric Research  Boulder, Colorado

 

Other Appointments

 

Visiting Fellow. Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University. June-December 1993.

Guest Lecturer. Friday Harbor Marine Station, University of Washington. August 1990.

Visiting Lecturer. Cooperitve Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami. February, 1988.

Refereed Publications

 
1. Wahr, J., M. Molenaar and F.O. Bryan, 1998: Time-variability of the Earth's gravity field: Hydrological and oceanic effects and their possible detection using GRACE. J. Geophys. Res. (submitted)
2. Gent, P.R., F.O. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, S.C. Doney, W.R. Holland, W.G. Large and J.C. McWilliams, 1998: The NCAR Climate System Model Global Ocean Component. J. Climate, 11, 1287-1306.
3. Doney, S.C., W.G. Large and F.O. Bryan, 1998: Surface ocean fluxes and water-mass transformation rates in the coupled NCAR Climate System Model. J. Climate, 11, 1420-1441.
4. Bryan, F.O., 1998: Climate drift in a multi-century integration of the NCAR Climate System Model. J. Climate. 11, 1457-1473.
5. Holland, W.R., J.C. Chow, and F.O. Bryan, 1998: Application of a thrid-order upwind scheme in the NCAR Ocean Model. J. Climate, 11, 1487-1493.
6. Hecht, M.W., F.O. Bryan and W.R. Holland, 1998: A consideration of four tracer advection schemes in a primitive equation model. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 3301-3321.
7. Bryan, F.O., 1997: The axial angular momentum balance of a global ocean general circulation model. Dynam. Atmos. Ocean., 25, 191-216.
8. Chao, Y., A. Gangopadhyay, F.O. Bryan and W.R. Holland, 1996: Modeling the Gulf Stream system: How far from reality? Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3155-3158.
9. Chassignet, E.P., L.T. Smith, R. Bleck and F.O. Bryan, 1996: A model intercomparison: Numerical simulations of the North and Equatorial Atlantic oceanic circulation in depth and isopycnal coordinates. J. Phys. Oceangr. 26, 1849-1867.
10. Böning, C.W., F.O. Bryan, W.R Holland, and R. Döscher, 1996: Deep water formation and meridional overturning in a high-resolution model of the North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 1142-1164.
11. Böning, C.W. and F.O. Bryan, 1996: Large-scale transport processes in high-resolution circulation models. In: The Warmwatersphere of the North Atlantic Ocean. W. Krauss (Ed.) Gebrüder Borntrager. Berlin. 91-128.
12. Bryan, F.O., I. Wainer, and W.R. Holland, 1995: Sensitivity of the Tropical Atlantic circulation to specification of wind stress climatology. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,729-24,744.
13. Bryan, F.O., C.W. Böning, and W.R. Holland, 1995: On the mid-latitude circulation in a high-resolution model of the North Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 289-305.
14. Böning, C.W., W.R. Holland, F.O. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu and J.C. McWilliams, 1995: An overlooked problem in model simulations of the thermohaline circulation and heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean. J. Climate, 8, 515-523.
15. Holland, W.R., and F.O. Bryan, 1993: Sensitivity studies on the role of the ocean in climate change. In: Ocean Processes in Climate Dynamics: Global and Mediterranean Examples. P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and A.R. Robinson (Eds.), NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 111-134.
16. Holland, W.R., and F.O. Bryan, 1993: Modeling the wind and thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. In: Ocean Processes in Climate Dynamics: Global and Mediterranean Examples. P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and A.R. Robinson (Eds.), NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht. 135-156.
17. Haidvogel, D.B., and F.O. Bryan, 1992: Ocean general circulation modeling. In: Climate System Modeling, K. Trenberth (Ed.), Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 371-412.
18. Bryan, F.O., and W.R. Holland, 1989: A high resolution simulation of the wind- and thermohaline-driven circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. In: Parameterization of Small Scale Processes: Proceedings of the Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop. P. Müller and D. Henderson (Eds.), Spec. Publ. 99-116 Hawaii Inst. of Geophys. Honolulu.
19. Bryan, F.O., 1987: Parameter sensitivity of primitive equation ocean general circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 17, 970-985.
20. Bryan, F.O., 1986: High latitude salinity effects and interhemispheric thermohaline circulations. Nature, 323, 301-304.
21. Bryan, F.O, and A.H. Oort, 1984: Seasonal variation of the global water balance based on aerological data. J. Geophys. Res., 89, 11,717-11,730.

Other Publications

 
1. Bryan,F.O. and P.R. Gent, 1997: Progress in coupled climate system modeling. In: 1997 U.S. WOCE Report. U.S. WOCE Implementation Report Number 9, U.S. WOCE Office, College Station, TX.
2. Gent, P.R and F.O. Bryan, 1997: The NCAR Climate System Model. International WOCE Newsletter. 26, 15-17. WOCE International Project Office, Southampton.
3. Bryan, F.O., B.G. Kauffman, W.G. Large and P.R. Gent, 1996: The NCAR CSM Flux Coupler. NCAR/TN-424+STR. National Center for Atmospheric Research.
4. Chassignet, E.P., L.T. Smith, R. Bleck and F.O. Bryan, 1996: Numerical simulations of the North and Equatorial Atlantic oceanic circulation-A model intercomparison: In: 1996 U.S. WOCE Report. U.S. WOCE Implementation Report Number 8, U.S. WOCE Office, College Station, TX.
5. Böning, C.W., F.O. Bryan, and W.R Holland, 1993: Modelling the subpolar North Atlantic. In: The North Atlantic Current System: A Scientific Report. P. Malanotte-Rizzoli and T.Rossby (Eds.).
6. Bryan, F.O., 1986: Maintenance and Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Recent Presentations

 
1. Modeling the North Atlantic: From Eddy Permitting to Eddy Resolving. International WOCE Conference on Ocean Circulation and Climate. Halifax, 28 May 1998.
2. Oceanic excitation of polar motion based on numerical simulations of the ocean general circulation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 10 December 1997
3. Forced Ocean Variability and Oceanic Excitation of Polar Motion. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 10 October 1997.
4. The NCAR Climate System Model. Bureau of Meteorology Research Center, Melbourne, 21 July 1997.
5. Oceanic Excitation of Variations in Earth Rotation Based on Numerical Simulations of the Ocean Circulation. 1997 Joint Assemblies of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and International Association for Physical Sciences of the Oceans, Melbourne, 8 July 1997.
6. The NCAR Climate System Model: Design and Control Climate Simulation. 1997 Joint Assemblies of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences and International Association for Physical Sciences of the Oceans, Melbourne, 8 July 1997.
7. Climate Drift in a Multi-century Integration of the NCAR CSM. Climate System Modeling Workshop, Breckenridge, 24 June 1997.

Committee Activites

 

NCAR Climate System Model Project Scientific Steering Committee

International Association of Geodesy Special Study Group 5.173 "Interaction of the Atmosphere and Oceans with the Earth's Rotational Dynamics"

 Executive Committee, U.S. WOCE Working Group on Numerical Modeling

U.S. WOCE Advisory Group on Model Based Air-Sea Flux Estimates

last modified 13 July 1998