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Frank O. Bryan is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science as notable subfields.

Their work includes numerous publications related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, and marine and coastal ecosystems. Other topics covered in their research consist of meteorological phenomena and simulations, ocean waves and remote sensing, geology and paleoclimatology research, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Frequent publication venues for Frank O. Bryan include:

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Among recent papers by Frank O. Bryan are:

  • A Diagnosis of Anisotropic Eddy Diffusion From a High-Resolution Global Ocean Model (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • The Global Sink of Available Potential Energy by Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • The Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Submesoscale Activity (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • A Global Diagnosis of Eddy Potential Energy Budget in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean Model (2022, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • A box model to represent estuarine dynamics in mesoscale resolution ocean models (2020, Ocean Modelling)

Frank O. Bryan's frequent co-authors include:

  • Scott Bachman
  • Gustavo Marques
  • Stuart P. Bishop
  • Justin Small
  • Gökhan Danabasoglu

Best Publications

  • Time variability of the Earth's gravity field: Hydrological and oceanic effects and their possible detection using GRACE

    John Wahr;Mery Molenaar;Frank Bryan

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • High-latitude salinity effects and interhemispheric thermohaline circulations

    Frank Bryan;Frank Bryan

  • Parameter Sensitivity of Primitive Equation Ocean General Circulation Models

    Frank Bryan

  • Numerical Simulation of the North Atlantic Ocean at 1/10°

    Richard D. Smith;Mathew E. Maltrud;Frank O. Bryan;Matthew W. Hecht

  • Developments in ocean climate modelling

    Stephen M. Griffies;Claus Böning;Frank O. Bryan;Eric P. Chassignet

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • A new synoptic scale resolving global climate simulation using the Community Earth System Model

    R. Justin Small;Julio Bacmeister;David Bailey;Allison Baker

  • Climate Process Team on Internal Wave–Driven Ocean Mixing

    Jennifer A. MacKinnon;Zhongxiang Zhao;Caitlin B. Whalen;Amy F. Waterhouse

  • Western boundary currents regulated by interaction between ocean eddies and the atmosphere

    Xiaohui Ma;Xiaohui Ma;Zhao Jing;Zhao Jing;Ping Chang;Ping Chang;Xue Liu;Xue Liu

  • The Community Climate System Model

    Maurice Blackmon;Byron Boville;Frank Bryan;Robert Dickinson

  • Impact of ocean model resolution on CCSM climate simulations

    Ben P. Kirtman;Cecilia Bitz;Frank Bryan;William Collins

  • The NCAR Climate System Model Global Ocean Component

    Peter R. Gent;Frank O. Bryan;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Scott C. Doney

  • Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models

    Frank O. Bryan;Robert Tomas;John M. Dennis;Dudley B. Chelton

  • The Impact of Oceanic Near-Inertial Waves on Climate

    Markus Jochum;Bruce P. Briegleb;Gokhan Danabasoglu;William G. Large

  • Resolution convergence and sensitivity studies with North Atlantic circulation models. Part I: The western boundary current system

    Frank O. Bryan;Matthew W. Hecht;Richard D. Smith

  • Equatorial Circulation of a Global Ocean Climate Model with Anisotropic Horizontal Viscosity

    William G. Large;Gokhan Danabasoglu;James C. McWilliams;Peter R. Gent

  • An Overlooked Problem in Model Simulations of the Thermohaline Circulation and Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean

    Claus W. Böning;William R. Holland;Frank O. Bryan;Gokhan Danabasoglu

  • Storm track response to ocean fronts in a global high-resolution climate model

    R. Justin Small;Robert A. Tomas;Frank O. Bryan

  • A prototype two-decade fully-coupled fine-resolution CCSM simulation

    Julie L. McClean;Julie L. McClean;David C. Bader;David C. Bader;Frank O. Bryan;Mathew E. Maltrud

  • What sets the mean transport through Drake Passage

    Peter R. Gent;William G. Large;Frank O. Bryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
William R. Holland
William R. Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research
Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
Peter R. Gent
Peter R. Gent National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mathew E. Maltrud
Mathew E. Maltrud Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Steven R. Jayne
Steven R. Jayne Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert A. Tomas
Robert A. Tomas National Center for Atmospheric Research
William G. Large
William G. Large National Center for Atmospheric Research
Claus W. Böning
Claus W. Böning GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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