Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions:

Our research involves identifying modes of subtropical and extratropical ocean/atmosphere variability that have significant influences upon the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system. As part of this work we have analyzed the dynamics of intraseasonal to interannual atmospheric variations that initiate ENSO events, as well as the dynamics of the surface and subsurface oceanic responses. Additional work has focused upon using advanced multivariate statistical techniques to identify causal linkages within the ocean/atmosphere system as a means of providing enhanced predictability associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and other modes of coupled climate variability. We are also analyzing low-frequency climate variations to determine how ocean-atmosphere interactions modulate human-induced climate change and the implications these interactions have for the global climate sensitivity to anthropogenic forcing over the next 100 years.

Publications:

Anderson, B.T., R. Perez, and A. Karspeck, 2012: Triggering of El Niño onset through the trade-wind induced charging of the equatorial Pacific, GRL (in review).

Anderson, B.T., J.R. Knight, M.A. Ringer, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Cherchi, 2012: Testing for the possible influence of unknown climate forcings upon global temperature increases from 1950-2000, J.Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00645.1.

Furtado, J.C. , E. Di Lorenzo, B.T. Anderson, and N. Schneider, 2011: Linkages between the North Pacific Oscillation and central tropical Pacific SSTs at low frequencies, Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1245-4

Anderson, B.T., J.R. Knight, M.A. Ringer, C. Deser, A.S. Phillips, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Cherchi, 2011: Climate forcings and climate sensitivities diagnosed from atmospheric global circulation models, Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0798-y.

Samanta, A. , B.T. Anderson, R. Nemani, and R. Myneni, 2010: Physical climate response to a reduction of anthropogenic climate forcing, Earth Interactions, 14, 1–11. doi: 10.1175/2010EI325.1

Di Lorenzo, E., K.M. Cobb, J.C. Furtado, N. Schneider, B.T. Anderson, A. Bracco, M.A. Alexander, and D. Vimont 2010: Central Pacific El Niño and decadal climate change in the North Pacific, Nature – Geophys., 3, 762

Caballero, R. and B.T. Anderson, 2009: Impact of midlatitude stationary waves on regional Hadley cells and ENSO, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039668

Anderson, B.T., 2007 Intra-seasonal atmospheric variability in the extra-tropics and its relation to the onset of tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature anomalies, J. Climate, 20, 1593-1599

Anderson, B.T., 2007: On the joint role of subtropical atmospheric variability and equatorial subsurface heat content anomalies in initiating the onset of ENSO events, J. Climate, 20, 926-936

Anderson, B.T. and E. Maloney, 2006: Interannual Tropical Pacific Sea-Surface Temperatures and Preceding Sub-Tropical North Pacific Sea Level Pressure Anomalies in the NCAR CCSM2.0, J. Climate, 19, 998-1012.

Anderson, B.T., 2004: Investigation of a large-scale mode of ocean/atmosphere variability and its relation to tropical Pacific sea-surface temperature anomalies, J. Climate, 17, 4089-4098

Wang, W., B. T. Anderson, R. K. Kaufmann, and R. B. Myneni, 2004: The relation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and SSTs in the North Atlantic basin. J. Climate, 17, 4752-4759

Anderson, B.T., 2003: Tropical Pacific sea-surface temperatures and preceding sea-level pressure anomalies in the subtropical North Pacific, J. Geophys. Res. 108, Art. No. 4732