Dynamical Systems and Physical Oceanography

Papers (2015- 2017)

1. Tantet, A., F. van der Burgt, and H. A. Dijkstra, An early warning indicator for atmospheric blocking event using transfer operators, Chaos, 25, 036406, doi: 10.1063/1.4908174 (2015).

2. H. Ihshaish, A. Tantet, J. C. M. Dijkzeul, and H. A. Dijkstra, Par@Graph – a parallel toolbox for the construction and analysis of large complex climate networks, Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 3321–3331, (2015).

3. H. A. Dijkstra, T. Sengul, J. Shen, S. Wang. Dynamic Transitions of Quasi-Geostrophic Channel Flow, SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, 75, 2361–2378, (2015).

4. K. D. A. Mojica, W. H. van de Poll, M. Kehoe, J. Huisman, K. R. Timmermans, A. G. J. Buma, H. J. van der Woerd, L. Hahn-Woernle, H. A. Dijkstra and C. P. D. Brussaard. Phytoplankton community structure in relation to vertical stratification along a north-south gradient in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Limnology and Oceanography, 60, 1498–1521, (2015).

5. H. A. Dijkstra. Book review on Mathematics and Climate (Kaper and Engler), The Mathematical Intelligercer, 37:101-102, (2015).

6. H. A. Dijkstra. A normal mode perspective of intrinsic ocean-climate variability, Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 48: 341-36, (2016).

7. H. A. Dijkstra and J. Viebahn. Sensitivity and Resilience of the Climate System: a Conditional Nonlinear Optimization Approach, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 22, 13-22, (2015).

8. J. F. Donges, J. Heitzig, B. Beronov, M. Wiedermann, J. Runge, Q.Y. Feng, L. Tupikina, V. Stolbova, R. V. Donner, N. Marwan, H. A. Dijkstra, and J. Kurths, Unified functional network and nonlinear time series analysis for complex systems science: The pyunicorn package, Chaos 25, 113101 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4934554.

9. H. A. Dijkstra. Understanding Climate Variability using Dynamical Systems Theory, in The Fluid Dynamics of Climate, ed. A. Provenzale, E. Palazzi and K. Fraedrich, CISM, 564, 1-38 (2016).

10. H. A. Dijkstra. Response of the Atlantic Ocean Circulation to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations, in Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events, ed. J. Li, R. Swinbank, R. Grotjahn, and H. Volkert, Cambridge University Press, 239-254, (2016).

11. C.E. Wieners, W.P.M. de Ruijter, W. Ridderinkhof, A.S. von der Heydt, and H. A. Dijkstra. Coherent tropical Indo-Pacific interannual climate variability: Indo-Pacific ENSO modes. J. Climate, 29, 4269-4291 (2016).

12. Z. Zu, Mu Mu, H. A. Dijkstra, Optimal initial excitations of decadal modification of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under the prescribed heat and freshwater flux boundary conditions, J. Phys. Oceanography, 46, 2029–2047, (2016).

13. Z. Yin, S.C. Dekker, M. Rietkerk, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, and H. A. Dijkstra, Network based early warning indicators of vegetation changes in a land-atmosphere model, Ecological Complexity, 26, 68–78 (2016).

14. D. le Bars, J. Viebahn and H. A. Dijkstra, A Southern Ocean Mode of Multidecadal Variability, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068177, (2016).

15. J. Viebahn, D. le Bars, A. vonder Heydt, and H. A. Dijkstra, Effects of Drake Passage on a strongly eddying global ocean, Paleoceanography, 31, 564–581, doi:10.1002/2015PA002888, (2016).

16. J. Maassen, B. van Werkhoven, M. van Meersbergen, H. E. Bal, M. Kliphuis, S. E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, G. van Malenstein, M. de Vos, S. Kuijpers, S. Boele, J. Wolfrat, N. Hill, D. Wallom, C. Grimm, D. Kranzlmuller, M. Santcroos, S. Jha, Y. El Khamra, F. O. Bryan, B. Kirtman, F. J. Seinstra, On the Complexities of Utilizing Large-Scale Lightpath-Connected Distributed Cyberinfrastructure, Concurrency Computations: Pract. Exper., 10.1002/cpe.3853, (2016).

17. M. Baatsen, D. J. J. van Hinsbergen, A. S. von der Heydt, H. A. Dijkstra, A. Sluijs, H. A. Abels, and P. K. Bijl, A generalised approach to reconstructing geographical boundary conditions for palaeoclimate modelling, Climate of the Past, 12, 1635–1644, (2016).

18. Z. Yin, S. C. Dekker, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk and H. A. Dijkstra, The climatic imprint of bimodal distributions in vegetation cover for western Africa, Biogeosciences, 13, 3343-3357, (2016).

19. A. S. von der Heydt, H. A. Dijkstra, R. S. W. van de Wal, R. Caballero, M. Crucifix, G. L. Foster, M. Huber, P. Kohler, E. Rohling, P. J. Valdes, P. Ashwin, S. Bathiany, T. Berends, L. G. J. van Bree, P. Ditlevsen, M. Ghil, A. M. Haywood, J. Katzav, G. Lohmann, J. Lohmann, V. Lucarini, A. Marzocchi, H. Palike, I. Ruvalcaba Baroni, D. Simon, A. Sluijs, L. B. Stap, A. Tantet, J. Viebahn, M. Ziegler, Lessons on Climate Sensitivity From Past Climate Changes, Curr Clim Change Reports, DOI 10.1007/s40641-016-0049-3, (2016).

20. L. Hahn-Woernle, H. A. Dijkstra, and Hans J. van der Woerd, 2016: Vertical Mixing Derived from Surface Chlorophyll-a Concentrations of the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 33, 2165–2183, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0053.1.

21. Q. Feng and H. A. Dijkstra, Climate Network Stability Measures of El Nino Variability, Chaos, 27, 035801; doi: 10.1063/1.4971784 (2017).

22. H. A. Dijkstra, A. Tantet, J. Viebahn, E. Mulder, M. Hebbink, D. Castellane, H. van den Pol, S. Baars, F. Wubs, M. Chekroun, C. Kuehn, A numerical framework to understand transitions in highdimensional stochastic dynamical systems, Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System, 1, doi:10.1093/climsys/dzw003, (2016).

23.Bathiany, S., H. A. Dijkstra, M. Crucifix, V. Dakos, V. Brovkin, M. S. Williamson, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer. Beyond bifurcation – using complex models to understand and predict abrupt climate change, Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System, 1, doi:10.1093/climsys/dzw004, (2016).

24. S.-E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, M. A. Kliphuis, H. E. Bal, F. Seinstra, B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, and M. van Meersbergen. Changes in extreme regional sea level under global warming, Ocean Sci., 13, 47–60, (2017).

25. S.-E. Brunnabend and H. A. Dijkstra, Asymmetric response of the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation to freshwater anomalies in a strongly-eddying global ocean model, Tellus A, in press (2017).

26. C. E. Wieners, H. A. Dijkstra, W. P.M. de Ruijter. The influence of the Indian Ocean on ENSO stability and flavour, J. Climate, in press (2017).

27. Baars, S., J. P. Viebahn, T. E. Mulder, C. Kuehn, F.W. Wubs, H. A. Dijkstra, Continuation of Probability Density Functions using a Generalized Lyapunov Approach, J. Comp. Physics, 336, 627-643, (2017).

28. M. Toffolon, S. Piccolroaz and H. A. Dijkstra, A plunge into the depths of Lake Garda (Italy), EOS, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO074499, (2017).

29. Q. Wang, Y. Tang and H. A. Dijkstra, An optimization strategy for identifying parameter sensitivity in atmosphere and ocean models, Monthly Weather Review, in press, (2017).

30. N. Bruggemann, C. A. Katsman and H. A. Dijkstra On the vorticity dynamics of the downwelling branch of the AMOC, CLIVAR exchanges, 71, 10-12 (2017).

31. T. E. Mulder, M. Baatsen, F.W. Wubs, H. A. Dijkstra, Efficient computation of past global ocean circulation patterns using continuation in paleobathymetry ,Ocean Modeling, 115, 77-85, (2017).

1. Tantet, A., F. van der Burgt, and H. A. Dijkstra, An early warning indicator for atmospheric blocking event using transfer operators, Chaos, 25, 036406, doi: 10.1063/1.4908174 (2015).

2. H. Ihshaish, A. Tantet, J. C. M. Dijkzeul, and H. A. Dijkstra, Par@Graph – a parallel toolbox for the construction and analysis of large complex climate networks, Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 3321–3331, (2015).

3. H. A. Dijkstra, T. Sengul, J. Shen, S. Wang. Dynamic Transitions of Quasi-Geostrophic Channel Flow, SIAM J. Applied Mathematics, 75, 2361–2378, (2015).

5. H. A. Dijkstra. Book review on Mathematics and Climate (Kaper and Engler), The Mathematical Intelligercer, 37:101-102, (2015).

6. H. A. Dijkstra. A normal mode perspective of intrinsic ocean-climate variability, Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 48: 341-36, (2016).

7. H. A. Dijkstra and J. Viebahn. Sensitivity and Resilience of the Climate System: a Conditional Nonlinear Optimization Approach, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 22, 13-22, (2015).

9. H. A. Dijkstra. Understanding Climate Variability using Dynamical Systems Theory, in The Fluid Dynamics of Climate, ed. A. Provenzale, E. Palazzi and K. Fraedrich, CISM, 564, 1-38 (2016).

10. H. A. Dijkstra. Response of the Atlantic Ocean Circulation to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations, in Dynamics and Predictability of Large-Scale, High-Impact Weather and Climate Events, ed. J. Li, R. Swinbank, R. Grotjahn, and H. Volkert, Cambridge University Press, 239-254, (2016).

11. C.E. Wieners, W.P.M. de Ruijter, W. Ridderinkhof, A.S. von der Heydt, and H. A. Dijkstra. Coherent tropical Indo-Pacific interannual climate variability: Indo-Pacific ENSO modes. J. Climate, 29, 4269-4291 (2016).

12. Z. Zu, Mu Mu, H. A. Dijkstra, Optimal initial excitations of decadal modification of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under the prescribed heat and freshwater flux boundary conditions, J. Phys. Oceanography, 46, 2029–2047, (2016).

13. Z. Yin, S.C. Dekker, M. Rietkerk, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, and H. A. Dijkstra, Network based early warning indicators of vegetation changes in a land-atmosphere model, Ecological Complexity, 26, 68–78 (2016).

14. D. le Bars, J. Viebahn and H. A. Dijkstra, A Southern Ocean Mode of Multidecadal Variability, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068177, (2016).

15. J. Viebahn, D. le Bars, A. vonder Heydt, and H. A. Dijkstra, Effects of Drake Passage on a strongly eddying global ocean, Paleoceanography, 31, 564–581, doi:10.1002/2015PA002888, (2016).

17. M. Baatsen, D. J. J. van Hinsbergen, A. S. von der Heydt, H. A. Dijkstra, A. Sluijs, H. A. Abels, and P. K. Bijl, A generalised approach to reconstructing geographical boundary conditions for palaeoclimate modelling, Climate of the Past, 12, 1635–1644, (2016).

18. Z. Yin, S. C. Dekker, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk and H. A. Dijkstra, The climatic imprint of bimodal distributions in vegetation cover for western Africa, Biogeosciences, 13, 3343-3357, (2016).

20. L. Hahn-Woernle, H. A. Dijkstra, and Hans J. van der Woerd, 2016: Vertical Mixing Derived from Surface Chlorophyll-a Concentrations of the North Atlantic Ocean. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 33, 2165–2183, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0053.1.

21. Q. Feng and H. A. Dijkstra, Climate Network Stability Measures of El Nino Variability, Chaos, 27, 035801; doi: 10.1063/1.4971784 (2017).

23.Bathiany, S., H. A. Dijkstra, M. Crucifix, V. Dakos, V. Brovkin, M. S. Williamson, T. M. Lenton, M. Scheffer. Beyond bifurcation – using complex models to understand and predict abrupt climate change, Dynamics and Statistics of the Climate System, 1, doi:10.1093/climsys/dzw004, (2016).

24. S.-E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, M. A. Kliphuis, H. E. Bal, F. Seinstra, B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, and M. van Meersbergen. Changes in extreme regional sea level under global warming, Ocean Sci., 13, 47–60, (2017).

25. S.-E. Brunnabend and H. A. Dijkstra, Asymmetric response of the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation to freshwater anomalies in a strongly-eddying global ocean model, Tellus A, in press (2017).

26. C. E. Wieners, H. A. Dijkstra, W. P.M. de Ruijter. The influence of the Indian Ocean on ENSO stability and flavour, J. Climate, in press (2017).

27. Baars, S., J. P. Viebahn, T. E. Mulder, C. Kuehn, F.W. Wubs, H. A. Dijkstra, Continuation of Probability Density Functions using a Generalized Lyapunov Approach, J. Comp. Physics, 336, 627-643, (2017).

28. M. Toffolon, S. Piccolroaz and H. A. Dijkstra, A plunge into the depths of Lake Garda (Italy), EOS, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO074499, (2017).

29. Q. Wang, Y. Tang and H. A. Dijkstra, An optimization strategy for identifying parameter sensitivity in atmosphere and ocean models, Monthly Weather Review, in press, (2017).

30. N. Bruggemann, C. A. Katsman and H. A. Dijkstra On the vorticity dynamics of the downwelling branch of the AMOC, CLIVAR exchanges, 71, 10-12 (2017).

31. T. E. Mulder, M. Baatsen, F.W. Wubs, H. A. Dijkstra, Efficient computation of past global ocean circulation patterns using continuation in paleobathymetry ,Ocean Modeling, 115, 77-85, (2017).

MSc. students (2016-2017): Matthias Aengenheyster, Mark Dekker, Femke Nijsse, Peter Nooteboom, Francesco Cassano, Francesco Lanzillo, Swinda Falkena

1. Tantet, A. and H. A. Dijkstra, An interaction network perspective on the relation between patterns of sea surface temperature variability and global mean surface temperature. Earth System Dynamics, 4, 1-14 (2014).

2. H. A. Dijkstra, Will the Atlantic Ocean Circulation collapse before the end of this century, in Handbook of Global Environmental Change, ed. B. Freedman, Springer, 85-95, (2014).

4. A. Cimatoribus, S.S. Drijfhout and H. A. Dijkstra. Meridional overturning circulation: stability and ocean feedbacks in a box model, Climate Dynamics, 42:311–328 (2014).

5. Q. Feng and H. A. Dijkstra, Are North Atlantic Multidecadal SST Anomalies Westward Propagating? Geophys. Res. Letters, 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058687(2014).

6. J. Viebahn and H. A. Dijkstra, Critical transition analysis of the deterministic wind-driven ocean circulation, A flux-based network approach, Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos, 24, 1430007-1 1430007-32, (2014).

7. Matthijs den Toom, H. A. Dijkstra, Wilbert Weijer, Matthew Hecht, Mat Maltrud, and Erik van Sebille. Response of a Strongly Eddying Global Ocean to North Atlantic Freshwater Perturbations, J. Phys. Oceanography, 44, 464-481, (2014).

8. B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, M. Kliphuis, H. A. Dijkstra, S.E. Brunnabend, M. van Meersbergen, F. J. Seinstra, and H. E. Bal, A distributed computing approach to improve the performance of the Parallel Ocean Program (v2.1), Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 267-281, (2014).

9. G. Sgubin, S. Pierini and H. A. Dijkstra, Intrinsic variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current System: low- and high-frequency fluctuations of the Argentine Basin flow, Ocean Science, 10, 201-213, (2014).

10. Rugenstein, M., Stocchi, P. , A.S. von der Heydt, H. A. Dijkstra and H. B. Brinkhuis, Emplacement of Antarctic ice sheet mass affects circumpolar ocean flow, Global Planetary Changes, 118, 16-24, (2014).

11. Sijp, W. P., A. S. von der Heydt, H. A. Dijkstra, S. Flogel, P. Douglas, P. K. Bijl.The role of ocean gateways on cooling climate on long time scales, Global Planetary Changes, 119, 1–22, (2014).

12. Yin, Z., S.C. Dekker, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk and, H. A. Dijkstra. Effects of vegetation structure on biomass accumulation in a Balanced Optimality Structure Vegetation Model (BOSVM v1.0), Geoscientific Model Development, 7, 821–845, (2014).

13. Yin, Z., S.C. Dekker, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk and, H. A. Dijkstra. Bimodality of woody cover and biomass in semi-arid regime, Earth System Dynamics, 5, 257–270, (2014).

14. G. Tirabassi, J. Viebahn, V. Dakos, H. A. Dijkstra, C. Masoller, M. Rietkerk, and S.C. Dekker. Interaction network based early-warning indicators of vegetation transitions, Ecological Complexity, 19, 148 - 157 , (2014).

15. H. A. Dijkstra, J. Saenz and A. Hogg, Energetics of Multidecadal Atlantic Ocean Variability, J. Climate, 27, 7874-7889, (2014).

16. Q. Feng, J. Viebahn and H. A. Dijkstra, Deep Ocean Early Warning Signals of an Atlantic MOC Collapse, Geophysical Res. Letters, 41, 6009-6015, (2014).

17. Le Bars, D., J.V. Durgadoo, H. A. Dijkstra, A. Biastoch and W.P.M. de Ruijter. An observed 20 years time-series of Agulhas leakage, Ocean Science, 10, 601–609, (2014).

18. Von der Heydt, A.S.,Kohler, P. Van de Wal, R.S.W. and H. A. Dijkstra. On the state dependency of fast feedback processes in (palaeo) climate sensitivity, Geophysical Res. Letters, 41, 6484–6492, (2014).

19. Pierini, S. H. A. Dijkstra and Mu Mu, Intrinsic low-frequency variability and predictability of the Kuroshio current and of its extension, Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 5, No. 2, 79-122.

20. S.E. Brunnabend, H. A. Dijkstra, B. van Werkhoven, J. Maassen, M. Kliphuis, M. van Meersbergen, F. J. Seinstra, and H. E. Bal, Changes in extreme regional sea surface height due to an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic MOC. Ocean Science, 10, 881–891, (2014).

22. L. Hahn-Woernle, H.J. van der Woerd, and H. A. Dijkstra, Sensitivity of phytoplankton distributions to vertical mixing along a North Atlantic transect. Ocean Science, 10, 993-1011, (2014).

14. G. Tirabassi, J. Viebahn, V. Dakos, H. A. Dijkstra, C. Masoller, M. Rietkerk, and S.C. Dekker. Interaction network based early-warning indicators of
vegetation transitions, Ecological Complexity, 19, 148 - 157 , (2014).