Publications

Y. Huo, et al. (incl. W. Weijer), 2025: E3SM‐Arctic: Regionally refined coupled model for advanced understanding of Arctic systems interactions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17, e2024MS004726, doi: 10.1029/2024MS004726.

T. Verma, W. Weijer, T. W. N. Haine, M. Veneziani, W. M. Kim, and J. Zhang, 2025: Role of sea ice and ocean in the observed increase of Arctic liquid freshwater content. Journal of Climate, in press, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0368.1.

G. Xu, M. C. Rencurrel, P. Chang, X. Liu, G. Danabasoglu, S. G. Yeager, M. Steele, W. Weijer, Y. Li, N. Rosenbloom, F. Castruccio, Q. Zhang, 2024: High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait’s role in amplified Arctic warming. Nature Climate Change, 14, 1-8, doi: 10.1038/s41558-024-02008-z.

J. Zhang, W. Cheng, P. Stabeno, M. Veneziani, W. Weijer and R. McCabe, 2024: Understanding ocean stratification and its interannual variability in the northeastern Chukchi Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1415021, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1415021.

P. Kurtakoti, W. Weijer, M. Veneziani, P. J Rasch, T. Verma, 2024: Sea Ice and Cloud Processes Mediating Compensation between Atmospheric and Oceanic Meridional Heat Transports across the CMIP6 Preindustrial Control Experiment. Journal of Climate, 37, 505–525, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0103.1.

Y. Li, W. Weijer, P. Kurtakoti, M. Veneziani, P. Chang, 2024: Bering Strait Ocean Heat Transport Drives Decadal Arctic Variability in a High-Resolution Climate Model. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108828, doi: 10.1029/2024GL108828.

F. Samsel, G. Abram, L. Gant, W. Weijer, and M. Veneziani, 2023. Atmospheric Rivers: Changes in Arctic Sea Ice. PEARC ’23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, 426–428, doi: 10.1145/3569951.3603642.

J. Schoonover, W. Weijer, and J. Zhang, 2023: FEOTS v0.0.0: a new offline code for the fast equilibration of tracers in the ocean. Geoscientific Model Development, 16, 2795–2809, doi: 10.5194/gmd-16-2795-2023.

X. Zhang, H. Tang, J. Zhang, J. E. Walsh, E. L. Roesler, B. Hillman, T. J. Ballinger, and W. Weijer, 2023: Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades. Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 348, doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-01003-0.

J. Zhang, W. Cheng, M. Steele, and W. Weijer, 2023: Asymmetrically Stratified Beaufort Gyre: Mean State and Response to Decadal Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100457, doi: 10.1029/2022GL100457.

W. Weijer, T. W. Haine, A. H. Siddiqui, W. Cheng, M. Veneziani, and P. Kurtakoti, 2022: Interactions between the Arctic Mediterranean and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A Review. Oceanography, 35, 118-127, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2022.130.

M. Veneziani, W. Maslowski, Y. J. Lee, G. D’Angelo, R. Osinski, M. R. Petersen, W. Weijer, A. P. Craig, J. D. Wolfe, D. Comeau, and A. K. Turner, 2022: An evaluation of the E3SMv1 Arctic ocean and sea-ice regionally refined model. Geoscientific Model Development, 15, 3133-3160, doi: 10.5194/gmd-15-3133-2022.

J. Zhang, W. Weijer, M. Steele, W. Cheng, T. Verma, and M. Veneziani, 2021: Labrador Sea freshening linked to Beaufort Gyre freshwater release. Nature Communications, 12, 1-8, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21470-3.

P. K. Kurtakoti, M. Veneziani, A. Stössel, W. Weijer, and M. Maltrud, 2021: On the Generation of Weddell Sea Polynyas in a High-Resolution Earth System Model. Journal of Climate, 34, 2491-2510, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0229.1.

W. Weijer, A. Barthel, M. Veneziani, H. Steiner, 2020: The Zapiola Anticyclone: A Lagrangian Study of its Kinematics in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean Model. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 164, 103308, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103308.

W. Weijer, W. Cheng, O. A. Garuba, A. Hu, and B. T. Nadiga, 2020. CMIP6 Models Predict Significant 21st Century Decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086075, doi: 10.1029/2019GL086075.

G. A. Gibson, W. Weijer, N. Jeffery and S. Wang, 2020: Relative impact of sea ice and temperature changes on Arctic marine production. Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeochemistry, 125, e2019JG005343, doi: 10.1029/2019JG005343.

J. J.-M. Hirschi, et al. (incl. W. Weijer), 2020: The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in high resolution models. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 125, e2019JC015522, doi: 10.1029/2019JC015522.

Z. S. Kaufman, N. Feldl, W. Weijer, M. Veneziani, 2020: Causal interactions between Southern Ocean polynyas and high-latitude atmosphere-ocean variability. Journal of Climate, 33, 4891-4905, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0525.1.

A. Hu, L. Van Roekel, W. Weijer, O. A. Garuba, W. Cheng, B. T. Nadiga, 2020: Role of AMOC in transient climate response to greenhouse gas forcing in two coupled models, Journal of Climate, 33, 5845-5859, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-1027.1.

M. W. Hecht, M. Veneziani, W. Weijer, B. Kravitz, S. Burrows, D. Comeau, E. Hunke, N. Jeffery, J. Urrego‐Blanco, H. Wang, and S. Wang, 2019: E3SMv0‐HiLAT: A Modified Climate System Model Targeted for the Study of High‐Latitude Processes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 2814-2843, doi: 10.1029/2018ms001524.

B. T. Nadiga, T. Verma, W. Weijer, and N. M. Urban, 2019: Enhancing Skill of Initialized Decadal Predictions using a Dynamic Model of Drift. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9991-9999, doi: 10.1029/2019gl084223.

W. Weijer, W. Cheng, S. S. Drijfhout, A. V. Fedorov, A. Hu, L. C. Jackson, W. Liu, E. L. McDonagh, J. V. Mecking, and J. Zhang, 2019: Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review and synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 5336-5375, doi: 10.1029/2019JC015083.

P. K. Kurtakoti, M. Veneziani, A. Stössel, and W. Weijer, 2018: Preconditioning and Formation of Maud Rise Polynyas in a High-Resolution Earth System Model. Journal of Climate, 31, 9659-9678, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-18-0392.1.

W. Cheng, W. Weijer, W. M. Kim, G. Danabasoglu, S. G. Yeager, P. R. Gent, D. Zhang, J. C. H. Chiang, and J. Zhang, 2018: Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? Journal of Climate, 31, 6649-6667, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-17-0825.1.

H. F. Drake, A. K. Morrison, S. M. Griffies, J. L. Sarmiento, W. Weijer, and A. R. Gray, 2018: Lagrangian Timescales of Southern Ocean Upwelling in a Hierarchy of Model Resolutions. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 891-898, doi: 10.1002/2017gl076045.

V. Tamsitt, H. F. Drake, A. K. Morrison, L. D. Talley, C. O. Dufour, A. R. Gray, S. M. Griffies, M. R. Mazloff, J. L. Sarmiento, J. Wang and W. Weijer, 2017: Spiraling pathways of global deep waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications, 8, 172, doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00197-0.

W. Weijer, M. Veneziani, A. Stössel, M. W. Hecht, N. Jeffery, A. Jonko, T. Hodos, and H. Wang, 2017: Local atmospheric response to an open-ocean polynya in a high-resolution climate model. Journal of Climate, 30, 1629-1641, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-16-0120.1.

A. Biastoch, J. Durgadoo, A. K. Morrison, E. van Sebille, W. Weijer, and Stephen M. Griffies, 2015: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation covaries with Agulhas Leakage. Nature Communications, 6, 10082, doi: 10.1038/ncomms10082.

W. Weijer, M. E. Maltrud, W. B. Homoky, K. L. Polzin, and L. R. M. Maas, 2015: Eddy-driven sediment transport in the Argentine Basin: is the height of the Zapiola Rise hydrodynamically controlled? Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 120, doi: 10.1002/2014JC010573.

S. M. Downes, W. Weijer, N. Jeffery, M. Mazloff, and J. Russell, 2015: Southern Ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry in a changing climate: Introduction and overview. Deep-Sea Research II, 114, 1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.013.

W. Weijer, 2015: Modal variability in the Southeast Pacific Basin: Energetics of the 2009 event. Deep-Sea Research II, 114, 3-11, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.10.002.

E. van Sebille, P. Scussolini, J. Durgadoo, F. Peeters, A. Biastoch, W. Weijer, C. Turney, C. Paris, and R. Zahn, 2015: Ocean currents generate large footprints in marine palaeoclimate proxies. Nature Communications, 6, 6521, doi: 10.1038/ncomms7521.

W. Weijer, and E. van Sebille, 2014: Impact of Agulhas Leakage on the Atlantic overturning circulation in the CCSM4. Journal of Climate, 27, 101-110, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-12-00714.1.

M. den Toom, H. A. Dijkstra, W. Weijer, M. W. Hecht, M. E. Maltrud, and E. van Sebille, 2014: Sensitivity of a strongly eddying global ocean to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 464-481, doi: 10.1175/jpo-d-12-0155.1.

W. Weijer, V. V. Zharkov, D. Nof, H. A. Dijkstra, W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, and F. Wubs, 2013: Agulhas ring formation as a barotropic instability of the retroflection. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5435-5438, doi: 10.1002/2013GL057751.

W. Weijer, E. Muñoz, N. Schneider, and F. Primeau, 2013: Pacific Decadal Variability: Paced by Rossby Basin Modes? Journal of Climate, 26, 1445-1456, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-12-00316.1.

W. Weijer, M. E. Maltrud, M. W. Hecht, H. A. Dijkstra, and M. Kliphuis, 2012: Response of the Atlantic Ocean circulation to Greenland ice sheet melting in a strongly-eddying ocean model. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09606, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051611.

W. Weijer, B. M. Sloyan, M. E. Maltrud, N. Jeffery, M. W. Hecht, C. A. Hartin, E. van Sebille, I. Wainer, and L. Landrum, 2012: The Southern Ocean and its Climate in CCSM4. Journal of Climate, 25, 2652-2675, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-11-00302.1.

E. Muñoz, W. Weijer, S. Grodsky, S. C. Bates, and I. Wainer, 2012: Mean and variability of the tropical Atlantic Ocean in the CCSM4. Journal of Climate, 25, 4860-4882, doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-11-00294.1.

E. Muñoz, B. Kirtman, and W. Weijer, 2011: Varied representation of the Atlantic meridional overturning across multidecadal ocean reanalyses. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58, 1848-1857, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.10.064.

W. Weijer, 2010: An almost-free barotropic mode in the Australian-Antarctic Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L10602, doi: 10.1029/2010GL042657.

V. Zharkov, D. Nof and W. Weijer, 2012: Retroflection from a double slanted coastline – a model for the Agulhas leakage variability. Ocean Science, 6, 997-1011, doi: 10.5194/os-6-997-2010.

W. Weijer, S. T. Gille and F. Vivier, 2009: Modal decay in the Australia-Antarctic Basin. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 2893-2909, doi: 10.1175/2009jpo4209.1.

K. J. Evans, D. W. I. Rouson, A. Salinger, M. A. Taylor, W. Weijer and J. B. White, 2009: A scalable and adaptable solution framework within components of the Community Climate System Model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5545, 332-341, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-01973-9_37.

W. Weijer, 2008: Normal Modes of the Mascarene Basin. Deep-Sea Research I, 55, 128-136, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.10.005.

W. Weijer, S. T. Gille, F. Vivier and H. A. Dijkstra, 2007: Multiple oscillatory modes of the Argentine Basin. Part I: Statistical analysis. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2855-2868, doi: 10.1175/2007jpo3527.1.

W. Weijer, S. T. Gille, F. Vivier and H. A. Dijkstra, 2007: Multiple oscillatory modes of the Argentine Basin. Part II: The spectral origin of basin modes. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, 2869-2881, doi: 10.1175/2007jpo3688.1.

W. Weijer, and S. T. Gille, 2005: Energetics of wind-driven barotropic variability in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Marine Research, 63, 1101-1125, doi: 10.1357/002224005775247562.

W. Weijer, and S. T. Gille, 2005: Adjustment of the Southern Ocean to wind forcing on synoptic time scales. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 2076-2089, doi: 10.1175/jpo2801.1.

W. Weijer, 2005: High-frequency wind forcing of a channel model of the ACC: Normal mode excitation. Ocean Modelling, 9, 31-50, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.04.001.

H. A. Dijkstra and W. Weijer, 2005: Stability of the global ocean circulation: basic bifurcation diagrams. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35, 933-948, doi: 10.1175/jpo2726.1.

H. A. Dijkstra, L. A. te Raa and W. Weijer, 2004: A systematic approach to determine thresholds of the ocean’s thermohaline circulation. Tellus, 56A, 362-370, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2004.00058.x.

H. A. Dijkstra and W. Weijer, 2003: Stability of the global ocean circulation: the connection of equilibria in a hierarchy of models. Journal of Marine Research, 61, 725-743, doi: 10.1357/002224003322981129.

W. Weijer, H. A. Dijkstra, H. Oksuzoglu, F. W. Wubs and A. C. de Niet, 2003: A fully-implicit model of the global ocean circulation. Journal of Computational Physics, 192, 452-470, doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2003.07.017.

H. A. Dijkstra, W. Weijer and J. D. Neelin, 2003: Imperfections of the three-dimensional thermohaline circulation: Hysteresis and unique-state regimes. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33, 2796-2814, doi: <a href=”https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2003)03310.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<2796:iotttc>2.0.co;2.

W. Weijer, and H. A. Dijkstra, 2003: Multiple oscillatory modes of the global ocean circulation. Journal Physical Oceanography, 33, 2197-2213, doi: <a href=”https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2003)03310.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<2197:momotg>2.0.co;2.

W. Weijer, W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. Sterl and S. S. Drijfhout, 2002: Response of the Atlantic overturning circulation to South Atlantic sources of buoyancy. Global and Planetary Change, 34, 293-311, doi: 10.1016/s0921-8181(02)00121-2.

W. Weijer, and H. A. Dijkstra, 2001: A bifurcation study of the three-dimensional thermohaline ocean circulation: the double-hemispheric case. Journal of Marine Research, 59, 599-631, doi: 10.1357/002224001762842208.

W. Weijer, W. P. M. de Ruijter and H. A. Dijkstra, 2001: Stability of the Atlantic overturning circulation: Competition between Bering Strait freshwater flux and Agulhas heat and salt sources. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31, 2385-2402, doi: <a href=”https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2001)03110.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2385:sotaoc>2.0.co;2.

W. Weijer, W. P. M. de Ruijter, H. A. Dijkstra and P. J. van Leeuwen, 1999: Impact of interbasin exchange on the Atlantic overturning circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 2266-2284, doi: <a href=”https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1999)02910.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<2266:ioieot>2.0.co;2.

W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. Biastoch, S. S. Drijfhout, J. R. E. Lutjeharms, R. P. Matano, T. Pichevin, P. J. van Leeuwen and W. Weijer, 1999: Indian-Atlantic inter-ocean exchange: Dynamics, estimation and impact. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 20885-20910, doi: 10.1029/1998jc900099.