Contact information

Prof. dr. ir. Henk A. Dijkstra
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Utrecht University
Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-30-2535441
Fax: +31-30-2543163
email: dijkstra@phys.uu.nl

Recent and Near Future Activities

12/10 - 30/10 Visit Institute Nonlineaire de Nice (INLN, Sophia-Antipolis, France).

31/7 - 11/8 Participation Research Cruise "STRATIPHYT" project from Cork (Ireland) to Reykjavik (Iceland) on the Pelagia

27/6 - 12/7 Visit to China:lectures at

LASG, CAS (Beijing, 29/6)
Ocean University of China (Qingdao, 6/7)
Institute of Oceanology, CAS (Qingdao, 7/7)
Nanjing University (Nanjing, 9/7)

8/6 - 12/6 Lecturer at the Summerschool: "Climate
Variability and Climate Change: Estimating and reducing the uncertainties", Visegrad, Hungary.

17/5: Plenary lecture at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, USA.

 

Papers (2009)

1. Simonnet, E, Dijkstra, H. A. and Ghil, M. Bifurcation analysis of ocean, atmosphere and climate models, Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol XIV, General Editor: Philippe G. Ciarlet; Special Volume on Computational Methods for the Ocean and the Atmosphere. Guest editors: Roger Temam and Joseph Tribbia, 187-230, (2009).

2. L. M. Frankcombe, Dijkstra, H.A. and Von der Heydt, A. S., Noise Induced Multidecadal Variability in the North Atlantic: Excitation of Normal Modes, J. Phys. Oceanography, 39, 220-233, (2009).

3. V. Palastanga, Dijkstra, H.A. and W.P. M. de Ruijter, Inertially induced connections between subgyres in the South-Indian Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanography, 39, 465-471, (2009).

4. S. L. Huisman, Dijkstra, H.A., De Ruijter, W. P. M., and Von der Heydt, A. S., Robustness of Multiple Equilibria in the Global Ocean Circulation, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L01610, doi:10.1029/2008GL036322, (2009).

5. G. van Oldenborgh, S. Drijfhout, A. van Ulden, R. Haarsma, A. Sterl, C. Severijns, W. Hazeleger, and H. A, Dijkstra., Western Europe is warming much faster than expected, Climate of the Past, 5, 1-12, (2009).

6. A. W. Omta, J. Llido, V. Garcon, S. A. L. M. Kooijman and H. A. Dijkstra., The interpretation of satelite chlorophyll observations: the case of the Mozambique Channel, Deep Sea Research I, 56 (6), 974-988, (2009).

7. S. Pierini, Dijkstra, H.A. and A. Riccio, A nonlinear theory of the Kuroshio Extension Bimodality, J. Phys. Oceanography 39, 2212-2229 , (2009).

8. M. den Toom, Dijkstra, H.A. and F. W. Wubs, Corrigendum to: A tailored solver for bifurcation studies of ocean-climate models, J. Comp. Physics, Vol. 228, 4962-496, (2009).

9. E. Bernsen, Dijkstra, H.A. and F. W. Wubs, Bifurcation analysis of wind-driven flows with MOM, Ocean Modelling, 30, 95-105, (2009).

10. M. P. Karami, P.Th. Meijer, Dijkstra, H.A. and M. J. R. Wortel A box model of the Miocene Mediterranean Sea with emphasis on the effects of closure of the eastern gateway, Paleoceanography, 24, PA4203, doi:10.1029/2008PA001679, (2009).

11. L. M. Frankcombe and Dijkstra, H.A., Coherent multidecadal variability in North Atlantic sea level, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L15604, dio:10.1029/2009GL039455, (2009).

12. G. van Oldenborgh, L. A. te Raa, Dijkstra, H. A. and S. Y. Philip, Frequency-dependent effects of the Atlantic meridional overturning on the tropical Pacific Ocean, Ocean Science , 5, 293-301, (2009).

13. J. Thies, F. W. Wubs and Dijkstra, H. A., Bifurcation analysis of 3D ocean flows using a parallel fully implicit ocean model, Ocean Modelling, in press, (2009).

14. L. M. Frankcombe, Von der Heydt, A. S and Dijkstra, H.A., The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation: A stochastic dynamical systems view , Chapter 12 in Stochastic Physics and Climate Modelling, eds. P. Williams and T. Palmer, CUP, in press, (2009).

15. Omta, A. W., J. Bruggeman, S. A. L. M. Kooijman and Dijkstra, H. A., The organic carbon pump in the Atlantic. J. Sea Research, 62, 179-187, (2009).

16. Huisman, S., M. den Toom, Dijkstra, H. A. and S. Drijfhout. An indicator of the multiple equilibria regime of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. J. Phys. Oceanography, in press, (2009).

17. P. Th.. Meijer and H. A, Dijkstra., The response of Mediterranean thermohaline circulation to climate change; A minimal model, Climate of the Past, in press, (2009).

18. S. Pierini and H. A. Dijkstra, Low-frequency variability of the Kuroshio Extension, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, in press, (2009).