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ECCO-GODAE AND ECCO2 PUBLICATIONS

2010:

• R. Abernathey, J. Marshall, M. Mazloff, and E. Shuckburgh, 2010: Enhancement of mesoscale eddy stirring at steering levels in the Southern Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40, 170-184.

• G. Forget, in press: Mapping ocean observations in a dynamical framework: a 2004-2006 ocean atlas. J. Phys. Oceanogr.

• G. Forget, G. Maze, M. Buckley, and J. Marshall, submitted: Quantitative and dynamical analysis of EDW formation using a model-data synthesis. J. Phys. Oceanogr.

• Heimbach, P., C. Wunsch, R.M. Ponte, G. Forget, C. Hill, and J. Utke, 2010: Timescales and Regions of the Sensitivity of Atlantic Meridional Volume and Heat Transport Magnitudes: Toward Observing System Design. submitted to Deep Sea Res. (special issue on the AMOC).

• P. Heimbach, D. Menemenlis, M. Losch, J. Campin, and C. Hill, in press: On the formulation of sea-ice models. Part 2: Lessons from multi-year adjoint sea ice export sensitivities through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Ocean Modelling.

• E. Hill, D. Enderton, P. Heimbach, and C. Hill, submitted: SPGrid: A numerical grid generation program for domain decomposed geophysical fluid dynamics models. Mon. Weather Rev.

• Lee, T., T. Awaji, M. Balmaseda, N. Ferry, Y. Fuji, I. Fukumori, B. Giese, P. Heimbach, A. Koehl, S. Masina, E. Remy, A. Rosati, M.P. Schodlok, D. Stammer, and A.T. Weaver, 2010: Consistency and fidelity of Indonesian-throughflow total volume transport estimated by 14 ocean data assimilation products. Dyn. Atmos. Ocean (Special issue on the ITF), in press, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2009.12.004

• M. Losch, D. Menemenlis, P. Heimbach, J. Campin, and C. Hill, in press: On the formulation of sea-ice models. Part 1: Effects of different solver implementations and parameterizations. Ocean Modelling.

• G. Maze, G. Forget, M. Buckley and J. Marshall, submitted: Using transformation and formation maps to study water mass transformation: a case study of North Atlantic Eighteen Degree water. J. Phys. Oceanogr.

• M. Mazloff, P. Heimbach, and C. Wunsch, in press: An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate. J. Phys. Oceanogr.

• J. Utke, L. Harscoet, P. Heimbach, C. Hill, P. Hovland, and U. Naumann, in press: Toward adjointable MPI. Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium.

• Vinogradova, N.T., R.M. Ponte, M.E. Tamisiea, J.L. Davis, and E.M. Hill, submitted: Effects of self-attraction and loading on annual variations of ocean bottom pressure. J. Geophys. Res.

• P. van der Werf, P. van Leeuwen, H. Ridderinkhof, and W. de Ruijter, 2010: Comparison between observations and models of the Mozambique Channel transport: Seasonal cycle and eddy frequencies. J. Geophys. Res., 115, C02002.

• C. Wunsch, in press: The oceanic variability spectrum and transport trends. Atmosphere-Ocean.

• Zanna, L., P. Heimbach, A. Moore, and E. Tziperman, in press. Optimal growth of Atlantic SST anomalies in an idealized ocean GCM. J. Phys. Oceanogr.

• Zanna L., P. Heimbach, A.M. Moore and E. Tziperman, submitted. Optimal excitation of interannual Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability. J. Climate.

2009:

• J. Baehr, S. Cunningham, H. Haak, P. Heimbach, T. Kanzow, and J. Marotzke, 2009: Observed and simulated daily variability of the meridional overturning circulation at 26.5N in the Atlantic. Ocean Sci. 5, 575-589.

• A. Condron, P. Winsor, C. Hill, and D. Menemenlis, 2009: Simulated response of the Arctic freshwater budget to extreme NAO wind forcing. J. Climate, 22, 2422-2437.

• B. Dushaw, P. Worcester, W. Munk, R. Spindel, J. Mercer, B. Howe, K. Metzger, T. Birdsall, R. Andrew, M. Dzieciuch, B. Cornuelle, and D. Menemenlis, 2009: A decade of acoustic thermometry in the North Pacific Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C07021.

• B. Dushaw and 37 others, 2009: A global ocean acoustic observing network. OceanObs'09 Community White Paper.

• L.-L. Fu, 2009: Pattern and velocity propagation of the global ocean eddy variability. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C11017.

• N. Gruber, M. Gloor, S. Fletcher, S. Doney, S. Dutkiewicz, M. Follows, M. Gerber, A. Jacobson, F. Joos, K. Lindsay, D. Menemenlis, A. Mouchet, S. Müller, J. Sarmiento, and T. Takahashi, 2009: Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO2. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB1005.

• P. Heimbach and V. Bugnion, 2009: Greenland ice sheet volume sensitivity to basal, surface, and initial conditions, derived from an adjoint model. Annals of Glaciology 50(52), 76-80.

• Heimbach, P., G. Forget, R. Ponte, and C. Wunsch (lead authors), 2009: Observational Requirements for global-scale ocean climate analysis: Lessons from ocean state estimation. Community White Paper. In: Hall, J., D.E. Harrison, and D. Stammer (Eds.), 2010: Proceedings of OceanObs09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, ESA Publication WPP-306.

• Hoteit, I., B. Cornuelle, and P. Heimbach, 2009: An Eddy-Permitting, Dynamically Consistent Adjoint-Based Assimilation System for the Tropical Pacific: Hindcast Experiments in 2000. J. Geophys. Res., in press, doi:10.1029/2009JC005437

• T. Lee and 26 others, 2009: Ocean state estimation for climate research. OceanObs'09 Community White Paper.

• M. Manizza, M. J. Follows, S. Dutckiewicz, J. W. McClelland, D. Menemenlis, C. N. Hill, A. Townsend-Small, and B. J. Peterson, 2009: Modeling transport and fate of riverine dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean. Global Biogeochem. Cycles., 23, GB4006.

• D. Menemenlis and 8 others, 2009: Global ocean and sea ice state estimation in the presence of eddies. OceanObs'09 Additional Contribution.

• A. Nguyen, D. Menemenlis, and R. Kwok, 2009: Improved modeling of the Arctic halocline with a sub-grid-scale brine rejection parameterization. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C11014.

• Ponte, R.M., 2009. Rate of work done by atmospheric pressure on the ocean general circulation and tides, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 458-464.

• R.M. Ponte and K.J. Quinn, 2009: Bottom pressure changes around Antarctica and wind-driven meridional flows. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13604, doi:10.1029/2009GL039060.

• D. Stammer and 26 others, 2009: Ocean information provided through ensemble ocean syntheses. OceanObs'09 Community White Paper.

• Petra van der Werf, 2009: Variability of the Mozambique Channel Throughflow. Ph.D. thesis, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

• C. Wunsch, 2009: The Oceanic Variability Spectrum and Transport Trends. Atmosphere-Ocean, 47(4), 281-291, doi:10.3137/OC310.2009.

• C. Wunsch, P. Heimbach, R. Ponte, and I. Fukumori, 2009: The global general circulation of the ocean estimated by the ECCO-consortium. Oceanography, 22, 88-103.

• C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2009: The globally integrated ocean circulation (MOC), 1992-2006: seasonal and decadal variability. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 351-368.

2008:

• G. Boezio, D. Menemenlis, and C. Mechoso, 2008: Impact of ECCO Ocean State Estimates on the Initialization of Seasonal Climate Forecasts. J. Climate, 21, 1929-1947.

• J. Campin, J. Marshall, and D. Ferreira, 2008: Sea-ice ocean coupling using a rescaled vertical coordinate z*, Ocean Modeling, 24, 1-14.

• G. Danabasoglu, R. Ferrari, and J. McWilliams, 2008: Sensitivity of an ocean general circulation model to a parameterization of near-surface eddy fluxes. J. Climate, 21, 1192-1208.

• X. Davis, 2008: Numerical and theoretical investigations of North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water with implications to Pacific climate variability. Ph.D. thesis, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

• G. Forget, B. Ferron, and H. Mercier, 2008: Combining ARGO profiles with a general circulation model in the North Atlantic. Part 1: Estimation of hydrographic and circulation anomalies from synthetic profiles, over a year. Ocean Modelling, 20, 1-16.

• G. Forget, H. Mercier and B. Ferron, 2008: Combining ARGO profiles with a general circulation model in the North Atlantic. Part 2: Realistic transports and improved hydrography, between spring 2002 and spring 2003. Ocean Modelling, 20, 17-34.

• B. Fox-Kemper and D. Menemenlis, 2008: Can Large Eddy Simulation Techniques Improve Mesoscale Rich Ocean Models? Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime, ed. Matthew Hecht & Hiroyasu Hasumi, American Geophysical Union, 319-338.

• P. Heimbach, 2008: The MITgcm/ECCO adjoint modeling infrastructure. CLIVAR Exchanges, 44, 13-17.

• R. Kwok, E. Hunke, W. Maslowski, D. Menemenlis, and J. Zhang, 2008: Variability of sea ice simulations assessed with RGPS kinematics. J. Geophys. Res., 131, C11012.

• M. Losch, 2008: Modeling ice shelf cavities in a z coordinate ocean general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08043.

• M. Mazloff, 2008: The Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation as diagnosed from an eddy permitting state estimate. Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cambridge, MA.

• D. Menemenlis, J. Campin, P. Heimbach, C. Hill, T. Lee, A. Nguyen, M. Schodlock, and H. Zhang, 2008: ECCO2: High resolution global ocean and sea ice data synthesis. Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter, 31, 13-21.

• Quinn, K.J., and R.M. Ponte, 2008. Estimating weights for the use of time-dependent GRACE data in constraining ocean models, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C12013, doi:10.1029/2008JC004903.

• J. Utke, U. Naumann, M. Fagan, N. Thallent, M. Strout, P. Heimbach, C. Hill, and C. Wunsch, 2008: OpenAD/F: A modular, open-source tool for automatic differentiation of Fortran codes. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), 34(4), doi:10.1145/1377596.1377598

• S. Vinogradov, R. Ponte, P. Heimbach, and C. Wunsch, 2008: The mean seasonal cycle in sea level estimated from a data-constrained general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C03032, doi:10.1029/2007JC004496

• D. Volkov and L. Fu, 2008: The role of vorticity fluxes in the dynamics of the Zapiola Anticyclone. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C11015.

• D. Volkov, T. Lee, and L. Fu, 2008: Eddy-induced meridional heat transport in the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L20601.

• L. White and A. Adcroft, 2008: A high-order finite volume remapping scheme for nonuniform grids: the piecewise quartic method (PQM). Journal of Computational Physics, revised.

• C. Wunsch, 2008: Mass transport variability in an eddy-filled ocean. Nature Geoscience, 1, 165-168.

• C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2008: How Long to Oceanic Tracer and Proxy Equilibrium? Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 637-651, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.01.006.

• C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2008: Reply to Saunders et al.s Comments on Decadal changes in the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and heat flux. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2108-2110.

2007:

• G. Danabasoglu and J. Marshall, 2007: Effects of vertical variations of thickness diffusivity in an ocean general circulation model. Ocean Modelling, 18, 122-141.

• S. Fletcher, N. Gruber, A. Jacobson, M. Gloor, S. Doney, S. Dutkiewicz, M. Gerber, M. Follows, F. Joos, K. Lindsay, D. Menemenlis, A. Mouchet, S. Muller, and J. Sarmiento, 2007: Inverse estimates of the oceanic sources and sinks of natural CO2 and their implied oceanic transport. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21, GB1010.

• G. Forget and C. Wunsch, 2007: Global hydrographic variability and the data weights in oceanic state estimates. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37(8), 1997-2008, doi:10.1175/JPO3072.1.

• I. Fukumori, D. Menemenlis, and T. Lee, 2007: A near-uniform basin-wide sea level fluctuation of the Mediterranean Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 338-358.

• G. Gebbie, 2007: Does Eddy Subduction Matter in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean? J. Geophys. Res., 112(C6), C06007, doi:10.1029/2006JC003568.

• P. Heimbach and C. Wunsch, 2007: Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean - The ECCO Consortia. U.S. CLIVAR Variations, 5, 1-5.

• C. Hill, D. Menemenlis, B. Ciotti, and C. Henze, 2007. Investigating solution convergence in a global ocean model using a 2048-processor cluster of distributed shared memory machines. Scientific Programming, 12, 107-115.

• M. Losch and P. Heimbach, 2007: Adjoint sensitivity of an ocean general circulation model to bottom topography. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37(2), 377-393, doi:10.1175/JPO3017.1

• D. Menemenlis, I. Fukumori, and T. Lee, 2007: Atlantic to Mediterranean sea level difference driven by winds near Gibraltar Strait. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 359-376.

• R. M. Ponte and S. V. Vinogradov, 2007: Effects of stratification on the large-scale ocean response to barometric pressure. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37(2), 245-258, doi:10.1175/JPO3010.1.

• R. M. Ponte, C. Wunsch, and D.Stammer, 2007: Spatial mapping of time-variable errors in Jason-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface height measurements. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 24(6), 1078-1085, doi:10.1175/JTECH2029.1

• R. M. Ponte, K.J. Quinn, C. Wunsch, and P. Heimbach, 2007: A comparison of model and GRACE estimates of the large-scale seasonal cycle in ocean bottom pressure. Geophys. Res. Lett, 34, L09603, doi:10.1029/2007GL029599

• D. Stammer, A. Koehl, and C. Wunsch, 2007: Impact of Accurate Geoid Fields on Estimates of the Ocean Circulation. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 24(8), 1464-1478, doi:10.1175/JTECH2044.1

• M. Suarez, A. Trayanov, C. Hill, P. Schopf, and Y. Vikhliaev, 2007: MAPL - A High-level Programming Paradigm to Support More Rapid and Robust Encoding of Hierarchical Trees of Interacting High-performance Components. HPC GECO/CompFrame'07 Proceedings.

• C. Wunsch, 2007: The Past and Future Ocean Circulation from a Contemporary Perspective. in: J. C. A. Schmittner and S. Hemmings (Eds.): Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts. AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, Vol. 173, pp. 53-74.

• C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2007: Practical global ocean state estimation. Physica D, 230(1-2), 197-208, doi:10.1016/j.physd.2006.09.040.

• C. Wunsch, R. M. Ponte, and P. Heimbach, 2007: Decadal trends in sea level patterns: 1993--2004. J. Clim., 20(24), 5889-5911

2006:

• N. Ayoub, 2006: Estimation of boundary values in a North Atlantic circulation model using an adjoint model. Ocean Modelling, 12(3-4), 319-347. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.06.003.

• V. Bugnion, C. Hill, and P. Stone, 2006: An adjoint analysis of the meridional overturning circulation in an ocean model. J. Climate, 19, 3732-3750.

• S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, P. Heimbach and J. Marshall, 2006: Controls on ocean productivity and air-sea carbon flux: An adjoint model sensitivity study. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L02603, doi:10.1029/2005GL024987

• D. Ellsworth, B. Green, C. Henze, P. Moran, and T. Sandstrom, 2006: Concurrent Visualization in a Production Supercomputing Environment. IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12, 997-1004.

• D. Ferreira and J. Marshall, 2006: Formulation and implementation of a residual-mean ocean circulation model. Ocean Modelling, 13 (1), 86-107.

• S. Fletcher, N. Gruber, A. Jacobson, S. Doney, S. Dutkiewicz, M. Gerber, M. Follows, F. Joos, K. Lindsay, D. Menemenlis, A. Mouchet, S. Muller, and J. Sarmiento, 2006: Inverse estimates of anthropogenic CO2 uptake, transport, and storage by the ocean. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 20, GB2002.

• L.-L. Fu, 2006: Pathways of eddies in the South Atlantic revealed from satellite altimeter observations, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L14610, doi:10.1029/2006GL026245.

• G. Gebbie, P. Heimbach and C. Wunsch, 2006: Strategies for nested and eddy-resolving state estimation. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C10073, doi:10.1029/2005JC003094.

• P. Heimbach, R.M. Ponte, C. Evangelinos, G. Forget, M. Mazloff, D. Menemenlis, S. Vinogradov and C. Wunsch, 2006: Combining Altimetric and All Other Data with a General Circulation Model. in: Proceedings of the 15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, Venice, 13-18 March 2006, ESA Special Publication SP-614, ISBN 92-9092-925-1. ESA Publications Division, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

• N. Krakauer, J. Randerson, F. Primeau, N. Gruber, and D. Menemenlis, 2006: Carbon isotope evidence for the latitudinal distribution and wind speed dependence of the air-sea gas transfer velocity. Tellus, 58B, 390-417.

• R. Kwok, G. Cunningham, H. Zwally, and D. Yi, 2006: ICESat over Arctic sea ice: Interpretation of altimetric and reflectivity profiles. J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JC003175.

• M. Mazloff, 2006: Production and analysis of a southern ocean state estimate. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• U. Naumann, J. Utke, P. Heimbach, C. Hill, D. Ozyurt, C. Wunsch, M. Fagan, N. Tallent and M. Strout, 2006: Adjoint code by source transformation with OpenAD/F. In: European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics ECCOMAS CFD 2006 Eds: P. Wesseling, E. Onate and J. Periaux. Delft, The Netherlands.

• R.M. Ponte, 2006: Oceanic response to surface loading effects neglected in volume-conserving models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36, 426-434, doi:10.1175/JPO2843.1

• Stammer, D., C. Wunsch and K. Ueyoshi, 2006: Temporal Changes in Ocean Eddy Transports. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(3), 543-550, doi:10.1175/JPO2858.1.

• C. Wunsch, 2006: Discrete Inverse and State Estimation Problems: With Geophysical Fluid Applications. 384p. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• C. Wunsch, 2006: Towards the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and a Bit of Aftermath. in: Physical Oceanography: Developments since 1950. M. Jochum and R. Murtugudde (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2006.

• C. Wunsch, 2006: Altimetry: Past, Present, and Future in: Proceedings of the 15 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, Venice, 13-18 March 2006, ESA Special Publication SP-614, ISBN 92-9092-925-1. ESA Publications Division, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

• C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2006: Decadal Changes in the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning and Heat Flux. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 36(11), 2012-2024, doi:10.1175/JPO2957.1.

2005:

• D. Ferreira, J. Marshall and P. Heimbach, 2005: Estimating eddy stresses by fitting dynamics to observations using a residual-mean ocean circulation model and its adjoint. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35(10), 1891-1910, doi:10.1175/JPO2785.1

• R. Glazman and Y. Golubev, 2005: Variability of the ocean-induced magnetic field predicted at sea surface and at satellite altitudes. J. Geophys. Res., 110, C12011.

• R. Gross, I. Fukumori, and D. Menemenlis, 2005: Atmospheric and oceanic excitation of decadal-scale earth orientation variations. J. Geophys. Res., 110, B09405.

• P. Heimbach, C. Hill and R. Giering, 2005: An efficient exact adjoint of the parallel MIT general circulation model, generated via automatic differentiation. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 21(8), 1356-1371 doi:10.1016/j.future.2004.11.010.

• J. Marshall, 2005: CLIMODE: a mode water dynamics experiment in support of CLIVAR. Clivar Variations, 3, 8-14.

• D. Menemenlis, I. Fukumori, and T. Lee, 2005: Using Green's functions to calibrate an ocean general circulation model. Mon. Weather Rev., 133, 1224-1240.

• D. Menemenlis, C. Hill, A. Adcroft, J.M. Campin, B. Cheng, B. Ciotti, I. Fukumori, A. Koehl, P. Heimbach, C. Henze, T. Lee, D. Stammer, J. Taft, and J. Zhang, 2005: NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research. EOS Transactions AGU, 86(9), p. 89.

• C. Wunsch, 2005: The Total Meridional Heat Flux and Its Oceanic and Atmospheric Partition. J. Clim., 18(21), 4374-4380, doi:10.1175/JCLI3539.1.

For earlier publications please see ECCO1 publications

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