Prof Geoffrey Vallis

Publications

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2023

Geen R, Thomson SI, Screen JA, Blackport R, Lewis NT, Mudhar R, Seviour WJM, Vallis GK. (2023) An Explanation for the Metric Dependence of the Midlatitude Jet‐Waviness Change in Response to Polar Warming, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 50, no. 21, DOI:10.1029/2023gl105132. [PDF]
Baker JA, Bell MJ, Jackson LC, Renshaw R, Vallis GK, Watson AJ, Wood RA. (2023) Overturning Pathways Control AMOC Weakening in CMIP6 Models, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, volume 50, no. 14, article no. ARTN e2023GL103381, DOI:10.1029/2023GL103381. [PDF]

2022

Subbiah Renganathan MN, Lambert H, Vallis G. (2022) Influence of dynamical changes on the tropical cloud feedback using extratropical forcing, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-12604. [PDF]
Henry M, Vallis GK. (2022) Variations on a Pathway to an Early Eocene Climate, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, volume 37, no. 8, DOI:10.1029/2021pa004375.
Williams D, Vallis G, Thomson S, Seviour W. (2022) Developing an Idealised Climate Model of Titan, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9643. [PDF]
Vallis GK. (2022) Reply to the comment by Davison and Haynes: Madden-Julian Oscillation like behaviour does persist at small time steps, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 148, no. 744, pages 1127-1130, DOI:10.1002/qj.4250. [PDF]

2021

Vallis GK. (2021) Turbulence Theory: Imperfect, but Necessary, AGU ADVANCES, volume 2, no. 3, article no. ARTN e2021AV000523, DOI:10.1029/2021AV000523. [PDF]
Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2021) Development mechanisms and regional characteristics of the Asian monsoon system, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10507928.1.
McKim BA, Jeevanjee N, Vallis GK. (2021) Joint Dependence of Longwave Feedback on Surface Temperature and Relative Humidity, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 48, no. 18, DOI:10.1029/2021GL094074.
Vallis GK. (2021) Distilling the mechanism for the Madden-Julian Oscillation into a simple translating structure, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 147, no. 738, pages 3032-3047, DOI:10.1002/qj.4114. [PDF]
Xu P, Wang L, Vallis GK, Geen R, Screen JA, Wu P, Ding S, Huang P, Chen W. (2021) Amplified Waveguide Teleconnections Along the Polar Front Jet Favor Summer Temperature Extremes Over Northern Eurasia, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 48, no. 13, DOI:10.1029/2021gl093735. [PDF]
Henry M, Vallis G. (2021) Seasonality of Polar Warming in Climates with Very High Carbon Dioxide, DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7424. [PDF]
Liu Q, Collins M, Maher P, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2021) SimCloud version 1.0: a simple diagnostic cloud scheme for idealized climate models, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 14, no. 5, pages 2801-2826, DOI:10.5194/gmd-14-2801-2021.
Ball ER, Mitchell DM, Seviour WJM, Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2021) The roles of latent heating and dust in the structure and variability of the northern Martian polar vortex, 2021, Volume 2, Pages 203. [PDF]
Webb M. (2021) Cloud Feedbacks in the Climate System.

2020

Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2020) The Asian Monsoons as a Unified System, DOI:10.1002/essoar.10504671.1.
Pietschnig M. (2020) Understanding Changes in Tropical Precipitation due to Climate Change.
Baker JA, Watson AJ, Vallis GK. (2020) Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Multibasin Model. Part I: Dependence on Southern Ocean Buoyancy Forcing, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, volume 50, no. 5, pages 1159-1178, DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0135.1. [PDF]
Vallis GK. (2020) The Trouble with Water: Condensation, Circulation and Climate. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Penn J. (2020) Convective organization and eastward propagating equatorial disturbances in a simple excitable system, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, DOI:10.1002/qj.3792.

2019

Mitchell JL, Birner T, Lapeyre G, Nakamura N, Read PL, Riviére G, Sánchez-Lavega A, Vallis GK. (2019) Terrestrial atmospheres, Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics, 9-45, DOI:10.1017/9781107358225.002.
Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2019) Hierarchical Modeling of Solar System Planets with Isca, Atmosphere, volume 10, no. 12, pages 803-803, DOI:10.3390/atmos10120803.
Pietschnig M, Lambert FH, Saint‐Lu M, Vallis GK. (2019) The Presence of Africa and Limited Soil Moisture Contribute to Future Drying of South America, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 46, no. 21, pages 12445-12453, DOI:10.1029/2019gl084441. [PDF]
Penn J. (2019) The General Circulation Of Tidally Locked And Non-Tidally Locked Exoplanets.
Maher PL, Vallis GK. (2019) Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation, Reviews of Geophysics, DOI:10.1029/2018RG000607.
Hu S, Vallis GK. (2019) Meridional Structure and Future Changes of Tropopause Height and Temperature. [PDF]
Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2019) The Effects of Gravity on the Climate and Circulation of a Terrestrial Planet. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Parker D, Tobias S. (2019) A Simple System for Moist Convection: The Rainy-Benard Model, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 862, pages 162-199, DOI:10.1017/jfm.2018.954. [PDF]

2018

Vallis GK. (2018) Foreword.
Read PL, Lewis SR, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric dynamics of terrestrial planets, Handbook of Exoplanets, 385-315, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7_50.
Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric response to SST anomalies. Part II: Background-state dependence, teleconnections, and local effects in summer, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 75, no. 12, pages 4125-4138, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0298.1.
Thomson SI, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric response to SST anomalies. Part I: Background-state dependence, teleconnections, and local effects in winter, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 75, no. 12, pages 4107-4124, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0297.1.
Penn J, Vallis GK. (2018) Atmospheric Circulation and Thermal Phase-Curve Offset of Tidally and Non-Tidally Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets, Astrophysical Journal, volume 868, article no. 147, DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/aaeb20.
Maher PL, Vallis G, Sherwood S, Webb M, Sansom P. (2018) The Impact of Parameterized Convection on Climatological Precipitation in Atmospheric Global Climate Models, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1002/2017GL076826.
Tsang Y-K, Vallis GK. (2018) A Stochastic Lagrangian Basis for a Probabilistic Parameterization of Moisture Condensation in Eulerian Models, J. Atmos. Sci, volume 75, pages 3925-3941. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Colyer G, Geen R, Gerber E, Jucker M, Maher P, Paterson A, Pietschnig M, Penn J, Thomson SI. (2018) Isca, v1.0: a framework for the global modelling of the atmospheres of Earth and other planets at varying levels of complexity, Geoscientific Model Development, volume 11, pages 843-859, DOI:10.5194/gmd-11-843-2018.
Geen R, Lambert FH, Vallis GK. (2018) Regime Change Behaviour During Asian Monsoon Onset, Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0118.1.

2017

Aluie H, Hecht M, Vallis GK. (2017) Mapping the Energy Cascade in the North Atlantic Ocean: The Coarse-graining Approach. [PDF]
Penn J, Vallis GK. (2017) The thermal phase curve offset on tidally- and non-tidally-locked exoplanets: A shallow water model. [PDF]

2016

JUNYI CHAI, MALTE JANSEN, Vallis G. (2016) Equilibration of a baroclinic planetary atmosphere toward the limit of vanishing bottom friction, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

2015

Watson AJ, Vallis GK, Nikurashin M. (2015) Southern Ocean buoyancy forcing of ocean ventilation and glacial atmospheric CO2, Nature Geoscience, volume 8, no. 11, pages 861-864, DOI:10.1038/ngeo2538.
Vallis GK, Zurita-Gotor P, Cairns C, Kidston J. (2015) Response of the large-scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 141, no. 690, pages 1479-1501, DOI:10.1002/qj.2456.

2014

Jucker M, Fueglistaler S, Vallis GK. (2014) Stratospheric sudden warmings in an idealized GCM, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, volume 119, no. 19, pages 11054-11064, DOI:10.1002/2014JD022170. [PDF]
Venaille A, Nadeau LP, Vallis G. (2014) Ribbon turbulence, Physics of Fluids, volume 26, no. 12, DOI:10.1063/1.4904878.
Chai J, Vallis GK. (2014) The role of criticality on the horizontal and vertical scales of extratropical eddies in a dry GCM, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 71, no. 7, pages 2300-2318, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0351.1.
Mitchell JL, Vallis GK, Potter SF. (2014) Effects of the seasonal cycle on superrotation in planetary atmospheres, Astrophysical Journal, volume 787, no. 1, DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/23.
Potter SF, Vallis GK, Mitchell JL. (2014) Spontaneous superrotation and the role of kelvin waves in an idealized dry GCM, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 71, no. 2, pages 596-614, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0150.1.

2013

Jucker M, Fueglistaler S, Vallis GK. (2013) Maintenance of the Stratospheric Structure in an Idealized General Circulation Model, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 70, no. 11, pages 3341-3358, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0305.1. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Vallis GK. (2013) Ocean Heat Uptake in Eddying and Non-Eddying Ocean Circulation Models in a Warming Climate, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, volume 43, no. 10, pages 2211-2229, DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-12-078.1. [PDF]
Farneti R, Vallis GK. (2013) Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: Compensation and partitioning, Journal of Climate, volume 26, no. 18, pages 7151-7166, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00133.1.
O'Rourke AK, Vallis GK. (2013) Jet interaction and the influence of a minimum phase speed bound on the propagation of eddies, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 70, no. 8, pages 2614-2628, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0303.1.
Zurita-Gotor P, Vallis GK. (2013) Determination of extratropical tropopause height in an idealized gray radiation model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 70, no. 7, pages 2272-2292, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0209.1.
Nikurashin M, Vallis GK, Adcroft A. (2013) Routes to energy dissipation for geostrophic flows in the Southern Ocean, Nature Geoscience, volume 6, no. 1, pages 48-51, DOI:10.1038/ngeo1657.

2012

Kidston J, Vallis GK. (2012) The Relationship between the Speed and the Latitude of an Eddy-Driven Jet in a Stirred Barotropic Model, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 69, no. 11, pages 3251-3263, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0300.1. [PDF]
Xie P, Vallis GK. (2012) The passive and active nature of ocean heat uptake in idealized climate change experiments, Climate Dynamics, volume 38, no. 3-4, pages 667-684, DOI:10.1007/s00382-011-1063-8.
Ilicak M, Vallis GK. (2012) Simulations and scaling of horizontal convection, Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, volume 64, no. 1, DOI:10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.18377.
Nikurashin M, Vallis G. (2012) A theory of the interhemispheric meridional overturning circulation and associated stratification, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 42, no. 10, pages 1652-1667, DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-11-0189.1.
Kidston J, Vallis GK. (2012) The relationship between the speed and the latitude of an eddy-driven jet in a stirred barotropic model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 69, no. 11, pages 3250-3263, DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0300.1.
Venaille A, Vallis GK, Griffies SM. (2012) The catalytic role of beta effect in barotropization processes. [PDF]

2011

Vallis GK. (2011) Climate and the Oceans, Princeton University Press.
Farneti R, Vallis GK. (2011) Mechanisms of interdecadal climate variability and the role of ocean-atmosphere coupling, CLIMATE DYNAMICS, volume 36, no. 1-2, pages 289-308, DOI:10.1007/s00382-009-0674-9. [PDF]
Vallis GK. (2011) Climate and the oceans, Climate and the Oceans.
Farneti R, Vallis GK. (2011) Mechanisms of interdecadal climate variability and the role of ocean-atmosphere coupling, Climate Dynamics, volume 36, no. 1, pages 289-308, DOI:10.1007/s00382-009-0674-9.
Nikurashin M, Vallis G. (2011) A theory of deep stratification and overturning circulation in the ocean, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 41, no. 3, pages 485-502, DOI:10.1175/2010JPO4529.1.
Zurita-Gotor P, Vallis GK. (2011) Dynamics of midlatitude tropopause height in an idealized model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 68, no. 4, pages 823-838, DOI:10.1175/2010JAS3631.1.
Venaille A, Vallis GK, Smith KS. (2011) Baroclinic turbulence in the ocean: Analysis with primitive equation and quasigeostrophic simulations, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 41, no. 9, pages 1605-1623, DOI:10.1175/JPO-D-10-05021.1.
Padilla LE, Vallis GK, Rowley CW. (2011) Probabilistic estimates of transient climate sensitivity subject to uncertainty in forcing and natural variability, Journal of Climate, volume 24, no. 21, pages 5521-5537, DOI:10.1175/2011JCLI3989.1.
Kidston J, Vallis GK, Dean SM, Renwick JA. (2011) Can the Increase in the Eddy Length Scale under Global Warming Cause the Poleward Shift of the Jet Streams?, JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, volume 24, no. 14, pages 3764-3780, DOI:10.1175/2010JCLI3738.1. [PDF]

2010

Ferrari R, Griffies SM, Nurser AJG, Vallis GK. (2010) A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport, Ocean Modelling, volume 32, no. 3-4, pages 143-156, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.01.004.
Zurita-Gotor P, Vallis GK. (2010) Circulation sensitivity to heating in a simple model of baroclinic turbulence, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 67, no. 5, pages 1543-1558, DOI:10.1175/2009JAS3314.1.
Held IM, Winton M, Takahashi K, Delworth T, Zeng F, Vallis GK. (2010) Probing the fast and slow components of global warming by returning abruptly to preindustrial forcing, Journal of Climate, volume 23, no. 9, pages 2418-2427, DOI:10.1175/2009JCLI3466.1.
Kidston J, Vallis GK. (2010) Relationship between eddy-driven jet latitude and width, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 37, no. 21, DOI:10.1029/2010GL044849.
Kidston J, Frierson DMW, Renwick JA, Vallis GK. (2010) Observations, simulations, and dynamics of jet stream variability and annular modes, Journal of Climate, volume 23, no. 23, pages 6186-6199, DOI:10.1175/2010JCLI3235.1.
Mitchell JL, Vallis GK. (2010) The Transition to Superrotation in Terrestrial Atmospheres. [PDF]
Kidston J, Dean SM, Renwick JA, Vallis GK. (2010) A robust increase in the eddy length scale in the simulation of future climates, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, volume 37, article no. ARTN L03806, DOI:10.1029/2009GL041615. [PDF]

2009

Legg S, Adcroft A, Anderson W, Balaji V, Dunne J, Griffies S, Hallberg R, Harrison M, Held I, Rosati T. (2009) The Future of Ocean Modeling, OCEANOGRAPHY IN 2025, pages 77-80. [PDF]
Farneti R, Vallis GK. (2009) An Intermediate Complexity Climate Model (ICCMp1) based on the GFDL flexible modelling system, GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT, volume 2, no. 2, pages 73-88, DOI:10.5194/gmd-2-73-2009. [PDF]
Gerber EP, Vallis GK. (2009) On the zonal structure of the North Atlantic oscillation and annular modes, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 66, no. 2, pages 332-352, DOI:10.1175/2008JAS2682.1.
Zurita-Gotor P, Vallis GK. (2009) Equilibration of baroclinic turbulence in primitive equations and quasigeostrophic models, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 66, no. 4, pages 837-863, DOI:10.1175/2008JAS2848.1.
Vallis GK, Farneti R. (2009) Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: Scaling and numerical experiments, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 135, no. 644, pages 1643-1660, DOI:10.1002/qj.498.

2008

Vallis GK, Gerber EP. (2008) Local and hemispheric dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation, annular patterns and the zonal index, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, volume 44, no. 3-4, pages 184-212, DOI:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2007.04.003.
Zhao R, Vallis G. (2008) Parameterizing mesoscale eddies with residual and Eulerian schemes, and a comparison with eddy-permitting models, Ocean Modelling, volume 23, no. 1-2, pages 1-12, DOI:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.02.005.

2007

Cash BA, Kushner P, Vallis G. (2007) Comment on "On the presence of annular variability in an aquaplanet model" by Masahiro Watanabe, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 34, no. 3, DOI:10.1029/2006GL027274.
Garner ST, Frierson DMW, Held IM, Pauluis O, Vallis GK. (2007) Resolving convection in a global hypohydrostatic model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 64, no. 6, pages 2061-2075, DOI:10.1175/JAS3929.1.
Fučkar NS, Vallis GK. (2007) Interhemispheric influence of surface buoyancy conditions on a circumpolar current, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 34, no. 14, DOI:10.1029/2007GL030379.
Zhang R, Vallis GK. (2007) The role of bottom vortex stretching on the path of the North Atlantic western boundary current and on the northern recirculation gyre, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 37, no. 8, pages 2053-2080, DOI:10.1175/JPO3102.1.
Gerber EP, Vallis GK. (2007) Eddy-zonal flow interactions and the persistence of the zonal index, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 64, no. 9, pages 3296-3311, DOI:10.1175/JAS4006.1.
Zhang R, Vallis GK. (2007) Explaining the gulf stream's path away from the East Coast, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 88, no. 10, pages 1530-1531.

2006

Vallis GK. (2006) Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press.
Zhang R, Vallis GK. (2006) Impact of great salinity anomalies on the low-frequency variability of the North Atlantic climate, Journal of Climate, volume 19, no. 3, pages 470-482, DOI:10.1175/JCLI3623.1.
Pauluis O, Frierson DMW, Garner ST, Held IM, Vallis GK. (2006) The hypohydrostatic rescaling and its impacts on modeling of atmospheric convection, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, volume 20, no. 5-6, pages 485-499, DOI:10.1007/s00162-006-0026-x.

2005

Cash BA, Kushner PJ, Vallis GK. (2005) Zonal asymmetries, teleconnections, and annular patterns in a GCM, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 62, no. 1, pages 207-219, DOI:10.1175/JAS-3361.1.
Dewar WK, Samelson RM, Vallis GK. (2005) The ventilated pool: A model of subtropical mode water, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 35, no. 2, pages 137-150, DOI:10.1175/JPO-2681.1.
Henning CC, Vallis GK. (2005) The effects of mesoscale eddies on the stratification and transport of an ocean with a circumpolar channel, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 35, no. 5, pages 880-896, DOI:10.1175/JPO2727.1.
Gerber EP, Vallis GK. (2005) A stochastic model for the spatial structure of annular patterns of variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation, Journal of Climate, volume 18, no. 12, pages 2102-2118, DOI:10.1175/JCLI3337.1.
Gnanadesikan A, Slater RD, Swathi PS, Vallis GK. (2005) The energetics of ocean heat transport, Journal of Climate, volume 18, no. 14, pages 2604-2616, DOI:10.1175/JCLI3436.1.
Scaife AA, Knight JR, Vallis GK, Folland CK. (2005) A stratospheric influence on the winter NAO and North Atlantic surface climate, Geophysical Research Letters, volume 32, no. 18, pages 1-5, DOI:10.1029/2005GL023226.
Loving JL, Vallis GK. (2005) Mechanisms for climate variability during glacial and interglacial periods, Paleoceanography, volume 20, no. 4, DOI:10.1029/2004PA001113.

2004

Vallis GK, Gerber EP, Kushner PJ, Cash BA. (2004) A mechanism and simple dynamical model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 61, no. 3, pages 264-280, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0264:AMASDM>2.0.CO;2. [PDF]
Cash BA, Kushner PJ, Vallis GK. (2004) Comments on "The structure and composition of the annular modes in an aquaplanet general circulation model'' - Reply, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 61, no. 8, pages 954-956, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0954:R>2.0.CO;2. [PDF]
Grianik N, Held IM, Smith KS, Vallis GK. (2004) The effects of quadratic drag on the inverse cascade of two-dimensional turbulence, Physics of Fluids, volume 16, no. 1, pages 73-78, DOI:10.1063/1.1630054.
Vallis GK, Gerber EP, Kushner PJ, Cash BA. (2004) A mechanism and simple dynamical model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 61, no. 3, pages 269-280, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0264:amasdm>2.0.co;2.
Henning CC, Vallis GK. (2004) The effects of mesoscale eddies on the main subtropical thermocline, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 34, no. 11, pages 2428-2443, DOI:10.1175/JPO2639.1.

2003

Vallis GK. (2003) Mean and eddy dynamics of the main thermocline, NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS, pages 141-171. [PDF]

2002

Sheinbaum J, Tandon A, Vallis G. (2002) Pedro Ripa 1946-2001 - Obituary, BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 83, no. 3, pages 458-459. [PDF]
Smith KS, Vallis GK. (2002) The scales and equilibration of midocean eddies: Forced-dissipative flow, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 32, no. 6, pages 1699-1720, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<1699:TSAEOM>2.0.CO;2.
Smith KS, Boccaletti G, Henning CC, Marinov I, Tam CY, Held IM, Vallis GK. (2002) Turbulent diffusion in the geostrophic inverse cascade, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 469, pages 13-48, DOI:10.1017/S0022112002001763.
Cash BA, Kushner PJ, Vallis GK. (2002) The structure and composition of the annular modes in an aquaplanet general circulation model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 59, no. 23, pages 3399-3414, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3399:TSACOT>2.0.CO;2.

2001

Shaper Smith K, Vallis GK. (2001) The scales and equilibration of Midocean Eddies: Freely evolving flow, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 31, no. 2, pages 554-571, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<0554:tsaeom>2.0.co;2.
Huck T, Vallis GK, de Verdière AC. (2001) On the robustness of the interdecadal modes of the thermohaline circulation, Journal of Climate, volume 14, no. 5, pages 940-963, DOI:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<0940:OTROTI>2.0.CO;2.
Huck T, Vallis GK. (2001) Linear stability analysis of the three-dimensional thermally-driven ocean circulation: Application to interdecadal oscillations, Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, volume 53, no. 4, pages 526-545, DOI:10.3402/tellusa.v53i4.12225.

2000

Vallis GK. (2000) Large-scale circulation and production of stratification: Effects of wind, geometry, and diffusion, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 30, no. 5, pages 933-954, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0933:LSCAPO>2.0.CO;2.

1999

Wells ML, Vallis GK, Silver EA. (1999) Tectonic processes in Papua New Guinea and past productivity in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, Nature, volume 398, no. 6728, pages 601-604, DOI:10.1038/19281.
Smith KS, Vallis GK. (1999) Linear baroclinic instability in extended regime geostrophic models, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 56, no. 11, pages 1579-1593, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1579:LBIIER>2.0.CO;2.
Schonbek M, Vallis GK. (1999) Energy Decay of Solutions to the Boussinesq, Primitive, and Planetary Geostrophic Equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, volume 234, no. 2, pages 457-481, DOI:10.1006/jmaa.1999.6354.

1997

Smith KS, Vallis GK. (1997) Baroclinic instability in nearly geostrophic models, 11TH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC FLUID DYNAMICS, pages 77-81. [PDF]
Samelson RM, Vallis GK. (1997) A simple friction and diffusion scheme for planetary geostrophic basin models, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 27, no. 1, pages 186-194, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0186:ASFADS>2.0.CO;2.
Samelson RM, Vallis GK. (1997) Large-scale circulation with small diapycnal diffusion: The two-thermocline limit, Journal of Marine Research, volume 55, no. 2, pages 223-275, DOI:10.1357/0022240973224382.
Mundt MD, Vallis GK, Wang J. (1997) Balanced models and dynamics for the large- and mesoscale circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 27, no. 6, pages 1133-1152, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<1133:BMADFT>2.0.CO;2.
Carnevale GF, Briscolini M, Kloosterziel RC, Vallis GK. (1997) Three-dimensionally perturbed vortex tubes in a rotating flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 341, pages 127-163, DOI:10.1017/S0022112097005430.
Vallis GK, Shutts GJ, Gray MEB. (1997) Balanced mesoscale motion and stratified turbulence forced by convection, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 123, no. 542, pages 1621-1652, DOI:10.1256/smsqj.54208.
Oetzel KG, Vallis GK. (1997) Strain, vortices, and the enstrophy inertial range in two-dimensional turbulence, Physics of Fluids, volume 9, no. 10, pages 2991-3004, DOI:10.1063/1.869410.

1996

Shutts GJ, Gray MEB, Vallis GK. (1996) Mesoscale inverse energy cascades forced by deep convection, SEVENTH CONFERENCE ON MESOSCALE PROCESSES, pages 442-444. [PDF]
Vallis GK. (1996) Potential vorticity inversion and balanced equations of motion for rotating and stratified flows, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 122, no. 529, pages 291-322, DOI:10.1256/smsqj.52911.
Vallis GK. (1996) Approximate geostrophic models for large-scale flow in the ocean and atmosphere, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, volume 98, no. 2-4, pages 647-651, DOI:10.1016/0167-2789(96)00125-X.

1995

Mundt MD, Vallis GK. (1995) Investigating the dynamics of planetary-scale flow using balanced models, TENTH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC WAVES AND STABILITY, pages 159-159. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Shutts GJ, Gray MEB. (1995) Balanced mesoscale motion and stratified turbulence forced by convection, TENTH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC WAVES AND STABILITY, pages 97-97. [PDF]
Bokhove O, Warn T, Shepherd TG, Vallis GK. (1995) Rossby-number expansions, slaving principles, and balance dynamics, TENTH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC WAVES AND STABILITY, pages 268-269. [PDF]
Warn T, Bokhove O, Shepherd TG, Vallis GK. (1995) Rossby number expansions, slaving principles, and balance dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 121, no. 523, pages 723-739, DOI:10.1002/qj.49712152313.

1994

CUMMINS PF, VALLIS GK. (1994) SOLVERS FOR SELF-ADJOINT ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS IN IRREGULAR 2-DIMENSIONAL DOMAINS, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE, volume 20, no. 3, pages 247-261, DOI:10.1145/192115.192118. [PDF]
Jian Wang, Vallis GK. (1994) Emergence of Fofonoff states in inviscid and viscous ocean circulation models, Journal of Marine Research, volume 52, no. 1, pages 83-127, DOI:10.1357/0022240943076777.

1993

Sundermeyer M, Vallis GK. (1993) Correlation dimensions of primitive equation and balanced models, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, volume 50, no. 15, pages 2556-2564, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1993)050<2556:CDOPEA>2.0.CO;2.
Vallis GK, Maltrud ME. (1993) Generation of mean flows and jets on a beta plane and over topography, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 23, no. 7, pages 1346-1362, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(1993)023<1346:GOMFAJ>2.0.CO;2.

1992

Maltrud ME, Vallis GK. (1992) Energy and enstrophy transfer in numerical simulations of two-dimensional turbulence, Physics of Fluids A, volume 5, no. 7, pages 1760-1775, DOI:10.1063/1.858851.
Vallis GK. (1992) Mechanisms and parameterizations of geostrophic adjustment and a variational approach to balanced flow, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 49, no. 13, pages 1144-1160, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1992)049<1144:MAPOGA>2.0.CO;2.

1991

Aua G, Pares-Sierra A, Vallis GK. (1991) Circulation and energetics of a model of the California current system, J. PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, volume 21, no. 10, pages 1534-1552, DOI:10.1175/1520-0485(1991)021<1534:caeoam>2.0.co;2.
Maltrud ME. (1991) Energy spectra and coherent structures in forced two-dimensional and beta-plane turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 228, pages 321-342, DOI:10.1017/S0022112091002720.

1990

Carnevale GF, Vallis GK. (1990) Pseudo-advective f relaxation to stable states of inviscid two-dimensional fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 213, pages 549-571, DOI:10.1017/S0022112090002440.

1989

Pares-Sierra A, Vallis GK. (1989) A fast semi-direct method for the numerical solution of non-separable elliptic equations in irregular domains, Journal of Computational Physics, volume 82, no. 2, pages 398-412, DOI:10.1016/0021-9991(89)90055-7.
Vallis GK, Carnevale GF, Young WR. (1989) Extremal energy properties and construction of stable solutions of the Euler equations, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, volume 207, pages 133-152, DOI:10.1017/S0022112089002533.
Carnevale GF, Purini R, Briscolini M, Vallis GK. (1989) Influence of Topography on Modon Propagation and Survival, Elsevier Oceanography Series, volume 50, no. C, pages 181-195, DOI:10.1016/S0422-9894(08)70185-5.

1988

CARNEVALE GF, VALLIS GK, PURINI R, BRISCOLINI M. (1988) PROPAGATION OF BAROTROPIC MODONS OVER TOPOGRAPHY, GEOPHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS, volume 41, no. 1-2, pages 45-101, DOI:10.1080/03091928808208831. [PDF]
VALLIS GK. (1988) CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF EL-NINO AND THE SOUTHERN OSCILLATION, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS, volume 93, no. C11, pages 13979-13991, DOI:10.1029/JC093iC11p13979. [PDF]
CARNEVALE GF, VALLIS GK, PURINI R, BRISCOLINI M. (1988) THE ROLE OF INITIAL CONDITIONS IN FLOW STABILITY WITH AN APPLICATION TO MODONS, PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, volume 31, no. 9, pages 2567-2572, DOI:10.1063/1.866534. [PDF]
CARNEVALE GF, BRISCOLINI M, PURINI R, VALLIS GK. (1988) NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON MODON STABILITY TO TOPOGRAPHIC PERTURBATIONS, PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, volume 31, no. 9, pages 2562-2566, DOI:10.1063/1.866533. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Hua BL. (1988) Eddy viscosity of the anticipated potential vorticity method, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 45, no. 4, pages 617-627, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1988)045<0617:EVOTAP>2.0.CO;2.
Vallis GK. (1988) Numerical studies of eddy transport properties in eddy‐resolving and parametrized models, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 114, no. 479, pages 183-204, DOI:10.1002/qj.49711447910.

1986

Vallis GK. (1986) El Niño: A chaotic dynamical system?, Science, volume 232, no. 4747, pages 243-245, DOI:10.1126/science.232.4747.243.

1985

Vallis GK. (1985) Instability and Flow Over Topography, GEOPHYSICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS, volume 34, no. 1-4, pages 1-38, DOI:10.1080/03091928508245436. [PDF]
VALLIS GK. (1985) ON THE SPECTRAL INTEGRATION OF THE QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS FOR DOUBLY-PERIODIC AND CHANNEL FLOW, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, volume 42, no. 1, pages 95-99, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1985)042<0095:OTSIOT>2.0.CO;2. [PDF]
VALLIS GK. (1985) PORNOSCIENCE, NEW SCIENTIST, volume 105, no. 1446, pages 49-49. [PDF]
Vallis GK. (1985) Remarks on the predictability properties of two‐ and three‐dimensional flow, The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 111, no. 466, pages 1039-1047, DOI:10.1002/qj.49711146608.

1984

VALLIS GK. (1984) BAROCLINIC AND BAROTROPIC PREDICTABILITY IN GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE, AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, no. 106, pages 117-132. [PDF]
CARNEVALE GF, VALLIS GK. (1984) APPLICATIONS OF ENTROPY TO PREDICTABILITY THEORY, AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, no. 106, pages 577-592. [PDF]
ROADS JO, VALLIS GK. (1984) AN ENERGY-BALANCE CLIMATE MODEL WITH CLOUD FEEDBACKS, TELLUS SERIES A-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, volume 36, no. 3, pages 236-250. [PDF]
Vallis GK, Roads JO. (1984) Large-scale stationary and turbulent flow over topography, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 41, no. 22, pages 3255-3271, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1984)041<3255:LSSATF>2.0.CO;2.
Roads JO, Vallis GK, Remer L. (1984) Cloud/climate sensitivity experiments, Climate processes and climate sensitivity, pages 92-107, DOI:10.1029/gm029p0092.
Roads JO, Vallis GK. (1984) An energy balance climate model with cloud feedbacks, Tellus, Series A, volume 36 A, no. 3, pages 236-250.

1983

Vallis GK. (1983) On the predictability of quasi-geostrophic flow: the effects of beta and baroclinicity, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, volume 40, no. 1, pages 10-27, DOI:10.1175/1520-0469(1983)040<0010:OTPOQG>2.0.CO;2.

1982

Roads JO, Vallis GK, Remer L. (1982) Cloud/climate sensitivity experiments.
CAYAN D, HARNACK R, VALLIS G. (1982) WORKSHOP ON WEATHER AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY DURING WINTER 1981-82 29-31 MARCH 1982, LA-JOLLA, CALIF, BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, volume 63, no. 10, pages 1179-1183. [PDF]
Roads JO, Vallis GK, Remer L. (1982) Cloud/climate sensitivity experiments.
Vallis GK. (1982) A statistical-dynamical climate model with a simple hydrology cycle, Tellus, volume 34, no. 3, pages 211-227, DOI:10.3402/tellusa.v34i3.10806.

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