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Richard J. Greatbatch
Researcher at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Publications - 242
Citations - 7795
Richard J. Greatbatch is an academic researcher from Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea surface temperature & Wind stress. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 235 publications receiving 6874 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard J. Greatbatch include Dalhousie University & Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology.
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Multidecadal Thermohaline Circulation Variability Driven by Atmospheric Surface Flux Forcing
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of integrations using the ocean component of the coupled model are performed to assess whether those fluctuations can be viewed as a coupled air-sea mode (in the sense of ENSO), or as an oceanic response to forcing from the atmosphere model, in which large-scale feedbacks from the ocean to the atmospheric circulation are not critical.
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A note on the representation of steric sea level in models that conserve volume rather than mass
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that requiring conservation of mass, rather than volume, introduces a new term to this equation and the equilibrium response to the new term has two parts.
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Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere
Xiaohui Ma,Xiaohui Ma,Zhao Jing,Zhao Jing,Ping Chang,Ping Chang,Xue Liu,Xue Liu,Raffaele Montuoro,R. Justin Small,Frank O. Bryan,Richard J. Greatbatch,Richard J. Greatbatch,Peter Brandt,Peter Brandt,Dexing Wu,Xiaopei Lin,Lixin Wu +17 more
TL;DR: It is shown that feedback between ocean mesoscale eddies and the atmosphere (OME-A) is fundamental to the dynamics and control of these energetic currents and has important implications for improving climate models’ representation of major oceanic fronts.
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A diagnosis of interpentadal circulation changes in the North Atlantic
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of changes in the bottom topography of the North Atlantic Ridge on the circulation of the Gulf Stream and found that changes in density field above 1500 m depth contribute about half of the transport change.
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Towards a mesoscale eddy closure
TL;DR: In this paper, a turbulence closure for the effect of mesoscale eddies in non-eddy-resolving ocean models is proposed, which consists of a prognostic equation for the eddy kinetic energy (EKE) that is integrated as an additional model equation, and a diagnostic relation for an eddy length scale (L), which is given by the minimum of Rhines scale and Rossby radius.