CURRICULUM VITAE
PETER ROBERT GENT
Academic Experience
1967-1970: First Class Honours Degree in Mathematics, University of
Bristol.
1970-1971: M.Sc. (with Commendation) in Fluid Dynamics, Department
of Mathematics, University of Bristol.
Dec. 1971-1973: Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics; Department of Mathematics,
University of Bristol, with supervisor Dr. P. G. Drazin.
Oct. 1973-June 1976: Research Fellow in the Department of Oceanography,
University of Southampton.
Sept. 1976-June 1979: Visiting Scientist to the Oceanography Section,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
July 1979-June 1983: Scientist II with the Oceanography Section,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
July 1983-June 1990: Scientist III with the Oceanography Section,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
July 1990-Present: Senior Scientist with the Oceanography Section,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Jan. 1994-June 2005: Head of the Oceanography Section, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
Sept.-Oct. 1996: Visiting Scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, England.
Jan.-Feb. 2003: Distinguished Frohlich Visiting Scholar at the CSIRO
Division of Oceanography in Hobart, Tasmania.
July 2005-Present: Chairman of the Science Steering Committee for the
Community Climate System Model: a cooperative project between NCAR,
Universities and National Laboratories, funded by the NSF and DOE.
Editorship
Co-Editor of Journal of Physical Oceanography; 1988 through 1991.
Associate Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography; 1992 to present.
Societies
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Member of the American Geophysical Union.
Recent Refereed Publications
Gent, P. R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1990: Isopycnal mixing in ocean
circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 20, 150-155. This paper is
available as a 0.4Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., 1993: The energetically consistent shallow water
equations. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1323-1325. This paper is available
as a 0.2Mb pdf file.
Danabasoglu, G., J. C. McWilliams, and P. R. Gent, 1994: The role of
mesoscale tracer transports in the global ocean circulation. Science,
264, 1123-1126. This paper is available as a 0.9Mb
pdf file.
Gent, P. R., J. Willebrand, T. J. McDougall, and J. C. McWilliams, 1995:
Parameterizing eddy-induced tracer transports in ocean circulation
models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 463-474. This paper is available as a
1.0Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1996: Eliassen-Palm fluxes and the
momentum equation in non-eddy-resolving ocean circulation models.
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 2539-2546. This paper is available as a
0.7Mb pdf file.
Allen, J. S., P. R. Gent and D. D. Holm, 1997: A note on Kelvin waves
in balance models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 2060-2063. This paper is
available as a 0.1Mb pdf file.
Boville, B. A., and P. R. Gent, 1998: The NCAR climate system model,
version one. J. Climate, 11, 1115-1130. This paper is available as a
0.9Mb pdf file.
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. This paper is
available as a 2.0Mb pdf file.
Large, W. G., and P. R. Gent, 1999: Validation of vertical mixing in an
equatorial ocean model using large eddy simulations and observations.
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 449-464. The paper is available as a
0.2Mb pdf file.
Wainer, I., P. R. Gent and G. Goni, 2000. Annual cycle of the
Brazil-Malvinas confluence region in the National Center for Atmospheric
Research Climate System Model. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 26167-26177.
The paper is available as a 1.9Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., W. G. Large and F. O. Bryan, 2001: What sets the mean
transport through Drake Passage? J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2693-2712. The
paper is available as a 3.3Mb pdf file.
Large, W. G., G. Danabasoglu, J. C. McWilliams, P. R. Gent and F. O.
Bryan, 2001. Equatorial circulation of a global ocean climate model
with anisotropic horizontal viscosity. J. Phys. Oceanogr.,
31, 518-536. The paper is available as a
1.0Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., 2001: Will the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation
weaken during the 21st century? Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1023-1026.
The paper is available as a 0.2Mb pdf file.
Meehl, G. A., P. R. Gent, J. M. Arblaster, B. Otto-Bliesner, E. Brady
and A. Craig, 2001: Factors that affect the amplitude of El Nino in
global coupled climate models. Clim. Dyn., 17, 515-526. The paper is
avaialable as a 0.5Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., 2001: Parameterizing eddies in ocean climate models.
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical
Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, 19-30, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht. The paper is available as a
0.3Mb pdf file.
Gent, P. R., A. P. Craig, C. M. Bitz and J. W. Weatherly, 2002:
Parameterization improvements in an eddy-permitting ocean model for
climate. J. Climate, 15, 1447-1459. The paper is available as a
0.6Mb pdf file.
Kiehl, J. T. and P. R. Gent, 2004: The Community Climate System Model,
version 2. J. Climate, 17, 3666-3682. The paper is available as a
1.2Mb pdf file.
P. R. Gent, and G. Danabasoglu, 2004: Heat uptake and the thermohaline
circulation in the Community Climate System Model, version 2.
J. Climate, 17, 4058-4069. The paper is available as a
0.3Mb pdf file.
Smith, R. D. and P. R. Gent, 2004: Anisotropic Gent-McWilliams
parameterization for ocean models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2541-2564.
The paper is available as a 2.6Mb pdf file.
P. R. Gent, F. O. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, K. Lindsay, D. Tsumune,
M. W. Hecht and S. C. Doney, 2006: Ocean chlorofluorocarbon and heat
uptake during the 20th Century in the CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2366-2381.
The paper is available as a 2.6Mb pdf file.
Danabasoglu, G., W. G. Large, J. J. Tribbia, P. R. Gent, B. P.
Briegleb, and J. C. McWilliams, 2006: Diurnal ocean-atmosphere
coupling. J. Climate, 19, 2347-2365. The paper is available as a
1.4Mb pdf file.
Bitz, C. M., P. R. Gent, R. A. Woodgate, M. M. Holland, and R.
Lindsay, 2006: The influence of sea ice on ocean heat uptake in
response to increasing CO2. J. Climate, 19, 2437-2450. The paper
is available as a 1.8Mb pdf file.
Bryan, F. O., G. Danabasoglu, P. R. Gent, and K. Lindsay, 2006:
Changes in Ocean Ventilation during the 21st Century in the CCSM3.
Ocean Modelling, 15, 141-156. The paper is available as a
2.65Mb pdf file.
McDougall, T. J., P. R. Gent, and S. Drijfhout, 2007: Comment on
"Dynamical model of mesoscales in z-coordinates" and "The effect
of mesoscales on the tracer equation in z-coordinate OGCMs" by
Canuto and Dubovikov. Ocean Modelling, 17, 163-171. The paper
is available as a 0.3Mb pdf file.
McDougall, T. J., P. R. Gent, and S. Drijfhout, 2008: Comment on
"Complete Eulerian-mean tracer equation for coarse resolution OGCMs"
by Dubovikov and Canuto. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics,
In Press. The paper is available as a
0.6Mb pdf file.
Goes, M., I. Wainer, P. R. Gent, and F. O. Bryan, 2008: Changes
in subduction in the South Atlantic Ocean during the 21st Century
in the CCSM3. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L06701,
doi:10.1029/2007GL032762. The paper is available as a
2.1Mb pdf file.
Danabasoglu, G., and P. R. Gent, 2008: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity:
is it accurate to use a slab ocean model? J. Climate, submitted. The
paper is available as a 1.0Mb pdf file.