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Andy F. Thompson
Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
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Submesoscale Eddy Contribution to Ocean Vertical Heat Flux Diagnosed From Airborne Observations
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
14 january 2025
Hector S. Torres, Alexander G. Wineteer, Ernesto R...
Submesoscale eddies (those smaller than 50 km) are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, as revealed by satellite infrared images. Diagnosing their...
Interactions Between Multiple Physical Particle Injection Pumps in the Southern Ocean
GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
12 december 2024
Andrew F. Thompson, Lilian Dove, Ellie Flint, Léo ...
Contributions to the biological pump that arise from the physical circulation are referred to as physical particle injection pumps. A synthesized v...
The Greenland Ice Sheet Large Ensemble
MODELING OF THE CRYOSPHERE: GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS III ORAL
cryosphere | 11 december 2024
Alexander Robel, Vincent Verjans, Lizz Ultee, Hele...
Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated in recent decades, potentially driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and intern...
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Ice Shelf Melt Feedbacks in a Circumpolar Model
ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS ALONG ANTARCTICA'S CONTINENTAL SHELF I ORAL
ocean sciences | 10 december 2024
Madeleine K. Youngs, Andrew Stewart, Andrew F. Tho...
The rate of ice shelf melt in Antarctica is one of the largest uncertainties for future sea level rise. However, this effect is not included in many c...
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The dynamics of Southern Ocean deep subduction events from coincident SWOT and glider observations
OCEAN DYNAMICS AND MARINE GRAVITY FROM SWOT III ORAL
ocean sciences | 09 december 2024
Andrew F. Thompson, Lilian Dove, Laura Herraiz-Bor...
The FOCUS (Fine-scale Observations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Under SWOT) project is a regional validation study conducted in support of the...
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Transient overturning changes cause upper-ocean nutrient decline in a warming climate
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION FROM PAST TO FUTURE: INSIGHTS FROM MULTIPLE APPROACHES I ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 09 december 2024
Andrew F. Thompson, Shantong Sun, Jimin Yu, Lixin ...
Both numerical models and proxy data suggest that sustained climate warming produces multi-centennial changes in nutrient and biological productivity,...
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Pathways of Inter‐Basin Exchange From the Bellingshausen Sea to the Amundsen Sea
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
02 june 2024
Mar M. Flexas, Andrew F. Thompson, Megan Robertson...
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is experiencing rapid thinning of its floating ice shelves, largely attributed to oceanic basal melt. Numerical models...
Controls on the Strength and Structure of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Climate Models
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
28 may 2024
Manali Nayak, David B. Bonan, Emily R. Newsom, And...
State‐of‐the‐art climate models simulate a large spread in the mean‐state Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC...