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David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Eric J. Fetzer, Peter J. Gleckler
Three-dimensional tropospheric water vapor in coupled climate
The North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) is a decadal to interdecadal fluctuation of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the North Pacific. Previous workers have shown that during individual El Nino and La...
Chunmei Zhu, David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Andrew W. Wood, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Abstract. The ability of the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) to reproduce the mean and variability of hydrologically relevant climate variables was evaluated by comparing PCM historical climate runs...
THE ACPI PROJECT, ELEMENT 1: INITIALIZING A COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL FROM OBSERVED CONDITIONS (2009)
David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Robin Tokmakian, Albert Semtner, Mathew Maltrud, Joanne Lysne, ...
Abstract. A problem for climate change studies with coupled ocean-atmosphere models has been how to incorporate observed initial conditions into the ocean, which holds most of the ‘memory’ of...
David W. Pierce, Peter B. Rhines
The convective building of a pycnocline is examined using a two-dimensional, non-hydrostatic numerical model forced by a balanced salinity dipole (source and sink). Although the forcing fields are...
On the Competing Roles of Heat and Fresh Water Flux in Forcing Thermohaline Oscillations (2008)
David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Uwe Mikolajewicz
We describe the physical mechanisms causing century-scale Southern Ocean thermohaline oscilla-tions in the Hamburg Large Scale Geostrophic model, a primitive equation oceanic general circulation...
David W. Pierce, Peter B. Rhines
We examine the convective building of a pycnocline using a laboratory model forced by surface fluxes of saline water at one end and fresh water at the other. A deep recirculation evolves in the tank,...
2004: Beyond the means: Validating climate models with higher-order statistics (2008)
Large-scale climate models are validated by comparing the model’s mean and variability to observations. New applications are placing more demands on such models, which can be addressed by examining...
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David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Krishna M. Achutarao, Peter J. Gleckler, Jonathan M. Gregory, Warren M. Washington
Submitted to J. Climate Observations show the oceans have warmed over the past 40 years, with appreciable regional variation and more warming at the surface than at depth. Comparing the observations...
When will Lake Mead go dry? (2008)
Tim P. Barnett, David W. Pierce
A water budget analysis shows that under current conditions there is a 10 % chance live storage in Lakes Mead and Powell will be gone by about 2013 and a 50 % chance it will be gone by 2021 if no...
David W. Pierce, K-Y Kim, Tim P. Barnett
We examine the variability of the ocean's thermohaline circulation in a Oceanic General Circulation Model (OGCM) coupled to a two dimensional atmospheric Energy Balance Model (EBM). The EBM...
Niklas Schneider, Stephan Venzke, Arthur J. Miller, David W. Pierce, Tim P. Barnett, Clara Deser, ...
Abstract. The coupling on decadal time scales of the midlatitude and tropical Pacific via an oceanic `bridge ' in the thermocline is investigated using ocean general circulation model hindcasts...
Journal of Climate, revised (2007)
Niklas Schneider, Arthur J. Miller, David W. Pierce
A systematic analysis of North Pacific decadal variability in a full-physics coupled ocean-atmosphere model is executed. The model is an updated and improved version of the coupled model studied by...
Miller, Arthur J., Gabric, Albert Jerome, Moisan, John R., Chai, Fei, Neilson, Douglas J., Pierce, David W., ...
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Miller, Arthur J., Gabric, Albert Jerome, Moisan, John R., Chai, Fei, Neilson, Douglas J., Pierce, David W., ...
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Miller, Arthur J., Gabric, Albert Jerome, Moisan, John R., Chai, Fei, Neilson, Douglas J., Pierce, David W., ...
Miller, Arthur J., Gabric, Albert Jerome, Moisan, John R., Chai, Fei, Neilson, Douglas J., Pierce, David W., ...
Abstract. Many studies have examined the physical changes expected in the environment as a result of anthropogenic forcing. These physical changes will have an effect on ecosystems as well. In this...
Eric J. Alfaro, David W. Pierce, Anne C. Steinemann, Alexander Gershunov
The electrical load from irrigation pumps is an important part of the overall electricity demand in many agricultural areas of the U.S. west. The date the pumps turn on and the total electrical load...
Reducing phase and amplitude errors in restoring boundary conditions (1996)
Restoring boundary conditions are often used to drive Ocean General Circulation Models. As typ-ically used, such conditions impose time lags and amplitude errors in the seasonal cycle of the model...
Peformance evaluation of the Hewlett-Packard model 3800 distance meter,--by David W, Pierce. (1972)
Thesis (M. S.) - Ohio State University.
Sustainable water deliveries from the Colorado River in a changing climate
Barnett, Tim P., Pierce, David W.
The Colorado River supplies water to 27 million users in 7 states and 2 countries and irrigates over 3 million acres of farmland. Global climate models almost unanimously project that human-induced...