Low-frequency variability, coherence resonance, and phase selection in a low-order model of the wind-driven ocean circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1585-1604

  Pierini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary currents; Decadal variability; Interannual variability; Nonlinear models; Quasigeostrophic models

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NON-LINEAR MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL;

ASTROPHYSICS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESONANCE;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIFURCATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GALERKIN METHOD; GYRE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; RESONANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; WIND FORCING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 81455144110     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-10-05018.1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Berloff, P., A. M. C. Hogg, and W. Dewar, 2007: The turbulent oscillator: A mechanism of low-frequency variability of the wind-driven ocean gyres. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 2363-2386.
2. Braun, H., M. Christl, S. Rahmstorf, A. Ganopolski, A. Mangini, C. Kubatzki, K. Roth, and B. Kromer, 2005: Possible solar origin of the 1470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model. Nature, 438, 208-211.
3. Dijkstra, H. A., 2005: Nonlinear Physical Oceanography: A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Nin{ogonek} o. Springer, 532 pp.
4. Dijkstra, H. A., and M. Ghil, 2005: Low-frequency variability of the largescale ocean circulation: A dynamical systems approach. Rev. Geophys., 43, RG3002, doi:10.1029/2002RG000122.
5. Ditlevsen, P. D., and S. J. Johnsen, 2010: Tipping points: Early warning and wishful thinking. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L19703, doi:10.1029/2010GL044486.
6. Ditlevsen, P. D., K. K. Andersen, and A. Svensson, 2007: The DO-climate events are probably noise induced: Statistical investigation of the claimed 1470 years cycle. Climate Past, 3, 129-134.
7. Feliks, Y., M. Ghil, and A. W. Robertson, 2011: The atmospheric circulation over the North Atlantic as induced by the SST field. J. Climate, 24, 522-542.
8. Frankcombe, L.M., H. A. Dijkstra, and A. S. Von der Heydt, 2009: Noise-induced multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: Excitation of normal modes. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 220-233.
9. Ganopolski, A., and S. Rahmstorf, 2002: Abrupt glacial climate changes due to stochastic resonance. Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 038501, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.038501.
10. Ghil, M., M. D. Chekroun, and E. Simonnet, 2008: Climate dynamics and fluid mechanics: Natural variability and related uncertainties. Physica D, 237, 2111-2126.
11. Jiang, S., F. Jin, and M. Ghil, 1995: Multiple equilibria, periodic and aperiodic solutions in a wind-driven, double-gyre, shallowwater model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 764-786.
12. Kelly, K. A., R. J. Small, R. M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T. M. Joyce, Y. Kwon, and M. F. Cronin, 2010: Western boundary currents and frontal air-sea interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension. J. Climate, 23, 5644-5667.
13. Lindner, B., J. Garci{dotless}́a-Ojalvo, A. Neiman, and L. Schimansky-Geier, 2004: Effects of noise in excitable systems. Phys. Rep., 392, 321-424.
14. Lorenz, E. N., 1963: Deterministic nonperiodic flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 130-141.
15. Lorenz, E. N., 1982: Low-order models of atmospheric circulations. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 60, 255-267.
16. Olbers, D., 2001: A gallery of simple models from climate physics. Stochastic Climate Models, P. Imkeller and J. von Storch, Eds., Progress in Probability, Vol. 49, Birkhäuser Verlag, 3-63.
17. Pierini, S., 2006: A Kuroshio Extension system model study: Decadal chaotic self-sustained oscillations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 1605-1625.
18. Pierini, S., 2010: Coherence resonance in a double-gyre model of the Kuroshio Extension. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40, 238-248.
19. Pierini, S., and H. A. Dijkstra, 2009: Low-frequency variability of the Kuroshio Extension. Nonlinear ProcessesGeophys., 16, 665-675.
20. Pierini, S., H. A. Dijkstra, and A. Riccio, 2009:Anonlinear theory of the Kuroshio Extension bimodality. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 2212-2229.
21. Press, W. H., B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, and W. T. Vetterling, 1992: Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77. Cambridge University Press, 973 pp.
22. Qiu, B., and S. Chen, 2010: Eddy-mean flow interaction in the decadally-modulating Kuroshio Extension system. Deep-Sea Res. II, 57, 1097-1110.
23. Rahmstorf, S., 2003: Timing of abrupt climate change: A precise clock.Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1510, doi:10.1029/2003GL017115.
24. Simonnet, E., and H. A. Dijkstra, 2002: Spontaneous generation of low-frequency modes of variability in the wind-driven ocean circulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1747-1762.
25. Simonnet, E.,M. Ghil, and H. A. Dijkstra, 2005: Homoclinic bifurcations in the quasi-geostrophic double-gyre circulation. J. Mar. Res., 63, 931-956.
26. Taguchi, B., S.-P. Xie, N. Schneider, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, and Y. Sasai, 2007: Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Observations and an eddy-resolving model hindcast. J. Climate, 20, 2357-2377.
27. Taguchi, B., B. Qiu, M. Nonaka, H. Sasaki, S.-P. Xie, and N. Schneider, 2010: Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: Mesoscale eddies and recirculations. Ocean Dyn., 60, 673-691, doi:10.1007/s10236-010-0295-1.
28. Tziperman, E., L. Stone, M. A. Cane, and H. Jarosh, 1994: El Nin{ogonek}o chaos: Overlapping of resonances between the seasonal cycle and the Pacific ocean-atmosphere oscillator. Science, 264, 72-74.
29. Tziperman, E., M. A. Cane, and S. E. Zebiak, 1995: Irregularity and locking to the seasonal cycle in an ENSO prediction model as explained by the quasi-periodicity route to chaos. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 293-306.
30. Tziperman, E., M. E. Raymo, P. Huybers, and C. Wunsch, 2006: Consequences of pacing the Pleistocene 100 kyr ice ages by nonlinear phase locking toMilankovitch forcing. Paleoceanography, 21, PA4206, doi:10.1029/2005PA001241.
31. Veronis, G., 1963: An analysis of wind-driven ocean circulation with a limited number of Fourier components. J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 577-593.