CARL WUNSCH

Carl Wunsch

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 54-1522
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
U.S.A.

  • phone: (617) 253-5937
  • FAX: (617) 253-4464 
  • email: cwunsch a t mit.edu

    London Channel 4 TV film "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

    ECCO - Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean

    C. Wunsch CV and Complete Publication List (pdf)

    Class Notes: The Ocean and Climate (pdf)

    MISCELLANEOUS (MAINLY) RECENT PAPERS, BOOKS
  • Wunsch, C., 1971, Note on some Reynolds stress effects of internal waves on slopes (pdf)
  • Munk, W. and C. Wunsch, 1979, Ocean acoustic tomography: A scheme for large-scale monitoring (pdf)
  • Book: Warren, B. A. and C. Wunsch, 1981, Evolution of Physical Oceanography, Scientific Surveys in Honor of Henry Stommel (pdf)
  • A Celebration in Geophysics and Oceanography 1982; In Honor of Walter Munk on his 65th birthday, October 19, 1982. C. Garrett, C. Wunsch, Eds."(pdf--36.5MB)
  • Book: Oceanographic and Geophysical Tomography, 1990. Y. Desaubies, A. Tarantola and J. Zinn-Justin, Eds. (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., D. Haidvogel, M. Isandarani, R. Hughes, 1997. Dynamics of the long-period tides (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 1997, The Vertical Partition of Oceanic Horizontal Kinetic Energy (pdf)
  • Munk W. and Wunsch, C., 1998, Abyssal Recipes-II: Energetics of Tidal and Wind Mixing (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C. and D. Stammer, 1998, Satellite altimetry, the marine geoid, and the oceanic general circulation (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 1998, The work done by the wind on the oceanic general circulation (pdf)
  • Stammer, D. and C. Wunsch, 1999.Temporal changes in eddy energy of the deep ocean(pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 1999, The Interpretation of Short Climate Records, With Comments on the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillations (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 1999, Where do eddy heat fluxes matter? (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2000, On sharp spectral lines in the climate record and the millennial peak (pdf)
  • A. Ganachaud and Wunsch, C., 2000, Improved estimates of global ocean circulation, heat transport and mixing from hydrographic data (pdf)
  • A. Ganachaud, C. Wunsch, J. Marotzke, J. Toole, 2000, Meridional overturning and large-scale circulation of the Indian Ocean, JGR. (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2001, Global problems and global observations (in Siedler et al.) (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2002, What is the Thermohaline Circulation ? Science (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2002, Ocean age and transient tracers: Analytical and numerical solutions, J. Geophys. Res., (pdf)
  • A. Ganachaud and C. Wunsch,, 2002, Oceanic nutrient and oxygen transports and bounds on export production during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (pdf)
  • X. Zang, L.-L. Fu and C. Wunsch, 2002, Observed reflectivity of the western boundary of the equatorial Pacific Ocean (pdf)
  • D. Stammer et al., 2002, Global Ocean Circulation During 1992-1997, Estimated from Ocean Observations and a General Circulation Model (pdf)
  • D. Stammer et al., 2002,Volume, heat, and freshwater transports of the global ocean circulation 1993-2000, estimated from a general circulation model constrained by World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch 2002, Ocean Observations and the Climate Forecast Problem (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2003, Determining Paleoceanographic Circulations, with Emphasis on the Last Glacial Maximum (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2003, The Spectral Description of Climate Change Including the 100KY Energy (pdf)
  • Ganachaud, A. and C. Wunsch, 2003, Large-scale ocean heat and freshwater transports during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch and D. E. Gunn, 2003, A Densely Sampled Core and Climate Variable Aliasing (pdf)
  • M. Losch and C. Wunsch, 2003, Bottom Topography as a Control Variable in an Ocean Model (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2003, Greenland---Antarctic Phase Relations and Millennial Time-Scale Climate Fluctuations in the Greenland Cores (pdf)
  • P. Huybers and C. Wunsch, 2003, Rectification and precession period signals in the climate system (pdf)
  • Li, X. and C. Wunsch 2003, Constraining the North Atlantic Circulation between 4.5 degrees S and 39.5 degrees N with transient tracer observations (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C. and R. Ferrari, 2004, Vertical mixing, energy, and the general circulation of the ocean (pdf)
  • Li, X. and C. Wunsch 2004, An adjoint sensitivity study of chlorofluorocarbons in the North Atlantic (pdf)
  • Wunsch, C., 2004, Quantitative estimate of the Milankovitch-Forced Contribution to Climate Change (pdf)
  • P. Huybers and C. Wunsch, 2004, A Depth-Derived Pleistocene Age-Model: Uncertainty Estimates, Sedimentation Variability, and Nonlinear Climate Change (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2004, Thermohaline loops, Stommel box models, and Sandstrom's theorem, Tellus (pdf)
  • Stammer, D., K. Ueyoshi, A. Kohl, W. G. Large, S. A. Josey, C. Wunsch, 2004, Estimating air&sea fluxes of heat, freshwater and momentum through global ocean data assimilation (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2004, Gulf Stream Safe If Wind Blows. Nature letter (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2005, Speculations on a schematic theory of the Younger Dryas. JMR (pdf)
  • P. Huybers and C. Wunsch, 2005, Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations. Nature (pdf)
  • S. Yuan and C. Wunsch, 2005, Stress-driven thermohaline loops. Physics of Fluids (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2005. The Total Meridional Heat Flux and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Partition J. Climate (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2006. Abrupt climate change. An alternative view Quat. Res. (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2006. Towards the World Ocean Circulation Experiment and a Bit of Aftermath (pdf) in Physical Oceanography: Developments Since 1950, Jochum & Murtugudde, Eds.
  • Gebbie, G., P. Heimbach and C. Wunsch 2006. Strategies for nested and eddy-resolving state estimation, J. Geophys. Res. (pdf)
  • Stammer, D., C. Wunsch, and K. Ueyoshi, 2006. Temporal changes in ocean eddy transports, J. Phys. Oc. (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2006. Decadal changes in the North Atlantic meridional overturning and heat flux. (pdf), JPO
  • E. Tziperman, M. E. Raymo, P. Huybers, C. Wunsch, 2006. Consequences of pacing the Pleistocene 100 kyr ice ages by non linear phase locking to Milankovitch forcing (pdf), Paleoceanography
  • C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2007. Practical Global Oceanic State Estimation (pdf), Physica D
  • R. M. Ponte, C. Wunsch and D, Stammer, 2007. Spatial mapping of time-variable errors in Jason-I and TOPEX/POSEIDON surface height measurements. J. Atm. Oc. Tech. (pdf)
  • D, Stammer, A. Koehl, and C. Wunsch, 2007. Impact of accurate geoid fields on estimates of the ocean circulation. J. Atm. Oc. Tech. (pdf)
  • R. M. Ponte, K. J. Quinn, C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2007. A comparison of model and GRACE estimates of the large-scale seasonal cycle in ocean bottom pressure. Geophys. Res. Letts (pdf)
  • G. Forget and C. Wunsch, 2007. Estimated Global Hydrographic Variability J. Phys. Oc. (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, 2007. The Past and Future Ocean Circulation from a Contemporary Perspective, in AGU Monograph, 173, A. Schmittner, J. Chiang and S. Hemming, Eds., 53-74, (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch, R. Ponte, P. Heimbach, 2007. Decadal trends in sea level patterns: 1993-2004 J. Clim., (pdf)
  • D. J. Baker, R. W. Schmitt and C. Wunsch, 2008. Endowments and and New Institutions for Long-Term Observations, Oceanography, (pdf)
  • C. Wunsch 2008. Extremes, Patterns, and Other Structures in Oceanographic and Climate Records (pdf) Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop on Extreme Events
  • C. Wunsch 2008. Mass transport variability in an eddy-filled ocean. Nature Geoscience. Final form available on their website, or by email request to me.
  • C. Wunsch, P. Heimbach, 2008. How long to oceanic tracer and proxy equilibrium? (pdf) Quat. Sci. Revs.
    PAPERS IN PRESS OR SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
  • C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach, 2008, The globally integrated ocean circulation (MOC), 1992-2006: seasonal and decadal variability, submitted for publication (pdf)
  • email me for copies of other papers including recently published paper in Nature Geoscience (2008)  

    • Last Modified: January 2008

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