CURRICULUM VITAE
PETER ROBERT GENT

Academic Experience

1967-1970: First Class Honours Degree in Mathematics, University of Bristol.

1970-1971: M.Sc. (with Commendation) in Fluid Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Dec. 1971-1973: Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics; Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, with supervisor Dr. P. G. Drazin.

Oct. 1973-June 1976: Research Fellow in the Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton.

Sept. 1976-June 1979: Visiting Scientist to the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

July 1979-June 1983: Scientist II with the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

July 1983-June 1990: Scientist III with the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

July 1990-June 2018: Senior Scientist with the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

Jan. 1994-June 2005: Head of the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.

Sept.-Oct. 1996: Visiting Scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, England.

Jan.-Feb. 2003: Distinguished Frohlich Visiting Scholar at the CSIRO Division of Oceanography in Hobart, Tasmania.

July 2005-Sept. 2009: Chief Scientist for the Community Climate System Model: a cooperative project between NCAR, Universities and National Laboratories, funded by the NSF and DOE.

May 2013-Feb. 2015: Science Advisor to the NCAR Executive Committee.

July 2018-Present: Senior Research Associate with the Oceanography Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder Colorado.

Editorship

Co-Editor of Journal of Physical Oceanography; 1988 through 1991.

Associate Editor of Journal of Physical Oceanography; 1992 to present.

Editor of Journal of Climate; July 2013 to December 2015.

Associate Editor of Journal of Climate; August 2016 to present.

Societies

Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (2004).

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2019).

Sverdrup Gold Medal from the American Meteorological Society (2020).

Recent Refereed Publications

Gent, P. R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1990: Isopycnal mixing in ocean circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 20, 150-155. This paper is available as a 0.4Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 1991: The heat budget of the TOGA-COARE domain in an ocean model. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 3323-3330. This paper is available as a 0.6Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 1993: The energetically consistent shallow water equations. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1323-1325. This paper is available as a 0.2Mb pdf file.

Danabasoglu, G., J. C. McWilliams, and P. R. Gent, 1994: The role of mesoscale tracer transports in the global ocean circulation. Science, 264, 1123-1126. This paper is available as a 0.9Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., J. Willebrand, T. J. McDougall, and J. C. McWilliams, 1995: Parameterizing eddy-induced tracer transports in ocean circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 463-474. This paper is available as a 1.0Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., and J. C. McWilliams, 1996: Eliassen-Palm fluxes and the momentum equation in non-eddy-resolving ocean circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 2539-2546.  This paper is available as a 0.7Mb pdf file.

Allen, J. S., P. R. Gent and D. D. Holm, 1997: A note on Kelvin waves in balance models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 2060-2063. This paper is available as a 0.1Mb pdf file.

Boville, B. A., and P. R. Gent, 1998: The NCAR climate system model, version one. J. Climate, 11, 1115-1130. This paper is available as a 0.9Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., F. O. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, S. C. Doney, W. R. Holland, W. G. Large and J. C. McWilliams, 1998: The NCAR climate system model global ocean component. J. Climate, 11, 1287-1306. This paper is available as a 2.0Mb pdf file.

Large, W. G., and P. R. Gent, 1999: Validation of vertical mixing in an equatorial ocean model using large eddy simulations and observations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 449-464. The paper is available as a 0.2Mb pdf file.

Wainer, I., P. R. Gent and G. Goni, 2000. Annual cycle of the Brazil-Malvinas confluence region in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate System Model. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 26167-26177. The paper is available as a 1.9Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., W. G. Large and F. O. Bryan, 2001: What sets the mean transport through Drake Passage? J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2693-2712. The paper is available as a 3.3Mb pdf file.

Large, W. G., G. Danabasoglu, J. C. McWilliams, P. R. Gent and F. O. Bryan, 2001. Equatorial circulation of a global ocean climate model with anisotropic horizontal viscosity. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 518-536. The paper is available as a 1.0Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2001: Will the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation weaken during the 21st century? Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1023-1026. The paper is available as a 0.2Mb pdf file.

Meehl, G. A., P. R. Gent, J. M. Arblaster, B. Otto-Bliesner, E. Brady and A. Craig, 2001: Factors that affect the amplitude of El Nino in global coupled climate models. Clim. Dyn., 17, 515-526. The paper is avaialable as a 0.5Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2001: Parameterizing eddies in ocean climate models. Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, 19-30, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. The paper is available as a 0.3Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., A. P. Craig, C. M. Bitz and J. W. Weatherly, 2002: Parameterization improvements in an eddy-permitting ocean model for climate. J. Climate, 15, 1447-1459. The paper is available as a 0.6Mb pdf file.

Kiehl, J. T. and P. R. Gent, 2004: The Community Climate System Model, version 2. J. Climate, 17, 3666-3682. The paper is available as a 1.2Mb pdf file.

P. R. Gent, and G. Danabasoglu, 2004: Heat uptake and the thermohaline circulation in the Community Climate System Model, version 2. J. Climate, 17, 4058-4069. The paper is available as a 0.3Mb pdf file.

Smith, R. D. and P. R. Gent, 2004: Anisotropic Gent-McWilliams parameterization for ocean models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2541-2564. The paper is available as a 2.6Mb pdf file.

P. R. Gent, F. O. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, K. Lindsay, D. Tsumune, M. W. Hecht and S. C. Doney, 2006: Ocean chlorofluorocarbon and heat uptake during the 20th Century in the CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2366-2381. The paper is available as a 2.6Mb pdf file.

Danabasoglu, G., W. G. Large, J. J. Tribbia, P. R. Gent, B. P. Briegleb, and J. C. McWilliams, 2006: Diurnal coupling in the tropical oceans of CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2347-2365. The paper is available as a 1.4Mb pdf file.

Bitz, C. M., P. R. Gent, R. A. Woodgate, M. M. Holland, and R. Lindsay, 2006: The influence of sea ice on ocean heat uptake in response to increasing CO2. J. Climate, 19, 2437-2450. Plus: Corrigendum, J. Climate, 20, 2864. The paper is available as a 1.8Mb pdf file. Corrigendum pdf file.

Bryan, F. O., G. Danabasoglu, P. R. Gent, and K. Lindsay, 2006: Changes in Ocean Ventilation during the 21st Century in the CCSM3. Ocean Modelling, 15, 141-156. The paper is available as a 2.65Mb pdf file.

McDougall, T. J., P. R. Gent, and S. Drijfhout, 2007: Comment on "Dynamical model of mesoscales in z-coordinates" and "The effect of mesoscales on the tracer equation in z-coordinate OGCMs" by Canuto and Dubovikov. Ocean Modelling, 17, 163-171. The paper is available as a 0.3Mb pdf file.

McDougall, T. J., P. R. Gent, and S. Drijfhout, 2008: Comment on "Complete Eulerian-mean tracer equation for coarse resolution OGCMs" by Dubovikov and Canuto. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 102, 249-256. The paper is available as a 0.6Mb pdf file.

Goes, M., I. Wainer, P. R. Gent, and F. O. Bryan, 2008: Changes in subduction in the South Atlantic Ocean during the 21st Century in the CCSM3. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L06701, doi:10.1029/2007GL032762. The paper is available as a 2.1Mb pdf file.

Danabasoglu, G., and P. R. Gent, 2009: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity: is it accurate to use a slab ocean model? J. Climate, 22, 2494-2499. The paper is available as a 1.5Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., S. G. Yeager, R. B. Neale, S. Levis, and D. A. Bailey, 2010: Improvements in a half degree atmosphere/land version of the CCSM. Climate Dynamics, 34, 819-833, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0614-8. The paper is available as a 3.3Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2011: The Gent-McWilliams parameterization: 20/20 hindsight. Ocean Modelling, 39, 2-9, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.08.002. The paper is available as a 0.5Mb pdf file.

Ringler, T. and P. R. Gent, 2011: An eddy closure for potential vorticity. Ocean Modelling, 39, 125-134, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.02.003. The paper is available as a 1.8Mb pdf file.

Farneti, R. and P. R. Gent, 2011: The effects of the eddy-induced advection coefficient in a coarse-resolution coupled climate model. Ocean Modelling, 39, 135-145, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.02.005. The paper is available as a 2.1Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., G. Danabasoglu, L. Donner, M. Holland, E. Hunke, S. Jayne, D. Lawrence, R. Neale, P. Rasch, M. Vertenstein, P. Worley, Z-L. Yang, and M. Zhang, 2011: The Community Climate System Model version 4. J. Climate, 24, 4973-4991. The paper is available as a 6.7Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R. and G. Danabasoglu, 2011: Response to increasing Southern Hemisphere winds in CCSM4. J. Climate, 24, 4992-4998. The paper is available as a 2.5Mb pdf file.

Bitz, C. M., K. M. Shell, P. R. Gent, D. Bailey, G. Danabasoglu, K. C. Armour, M. M. Holland, and J. T. Kiehl, 2012: Climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model version 4. J. Climate, 25, 3053-3070. The paper is available as a 3.3Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2012: Coupled climate system modeling. Chapter in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology; Springer Publishing, pp 2509-2527, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3. The chapter is available as a 0.6Mb pdf file.

Lovenduski, N. S., M. C. Long, P. R. Gent and K. Lindsay, 2013: Multi-decadal trends in the advection and mixing of natural carbon in the Southern Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 139-142, doi:10.1029/2012GL054483. The paper is available as a 0.7Mb pdf file.

Mahlstein, I., P. R. Gent and S. Solomon, 2013: Historical Antarctic mean sea ice area, sea ice trends, and winds in CMIP5 simulations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 5105-5110. The paper is available as a 1.0Mb pdf file.

Hurrell, J. W., M. M. Holland, P. R. Gent, et al., 2013: The Community Earth System Model: A framework for collaborative research. BAMS, 94, 1339-1360. The paper is available as a 1.8Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2013: Coupled models and climate projections. Chapter 23 in Ocean Circulation and Climate, 2nd Ed. A 21st century perspective. Siedler, G., Griffies, S., Gould, J. and Church, J. (Eds.), Academic Press. The chapter is available as a 1.4Mb pdf file.

Bryan, F. O., P. R. Gent and R. Tomas, 2014: Can Southern Ocean eddy effects be parameterized in climate models? J. Climate, 27, 411-425. The paper is available as a 2.2Mb pdf file.

Small, R. J., P. R. Gent, et al., 2014: A new synoptic scale resolving global climate simulation using the Community Earth System Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, 1065-1094, doi: 10.1002/2014MS000363. The paper is available as a 3.8Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2016: Effects of Southern Hemisphere wind changes on the meridional overturning circulation in ocean models. Annual Review of Marine Science, 8, 79-94. The paper is available from this web site 1.5Mb pdf file.

Newsom, E., C. M. Bitz, F. O. Bryan, R. Abernathey and P. R. Gent, 2016: Southern Ocean deep circulation and heat uptake in a high-resolution climate model. J. Climate, 29, 2597-2619. The paper is available as a 6.2Mb pdf file.

Bishop, S. P., P. R. Gent, F. O. Bryan, A. F. Thompson, M. C. Long and R. Abernathey, 2016: Southern Ocean overturning compensation in an eddy-resolving climate simulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46, 1575-1592. The paper is available as a 22Mb pdf file.

Chen, Q., T. Ringler and P. R. Gent, 2016: Extending a potential vorticity transport eddy closure to include a spatially-varying coefficient. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 71, 2206-2217. The paper is available as a 1.6Mb pdf file.

Freeman, N. M., N. S. Lovenduski and P. R. Gent, 2016: Temporal variability in the Antarctic Polar Front (2002–2014). J. Geophys. Res., 121, 7263-7276: doi:10.1002/2016JC012145. The paper is available as a 1.0Mb pdf file.

Fasullo, J. T. and P. R. Gent, 2017: On the relationship between regional ocean heat content and sea surface height. J. Climate, 30, 9195-9211. The paper is available as a 18.7Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2018: A commentary on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation stability in climate models. Ocean Modell., 122, 57-66. The paper is available as a 1.5Mb pdf file.

Cheng, W., P. R. Gent, et al., 2018: Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? J. Climate, 31, 6649-6667, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0825.1. The paper is available as a 9.4Mb pdf file.

Wainer, I. and P. R. Gent, 2019: Changes in the Atlantic sector of the Southern ocean estimated from the CESM last millennium ensemble. Antarctic Science, 31, 37-51, doi:10.1017/S0954102018000433. The paper is available as a 15.8Mb pdf file.

Marcello, F., I. Wainer, P. R. Gent, B. L. Otto-Bliesner and E. C. Brady, 2019: South Atlantic surface boundary current system during the last millennium in the CESM-LME: The medieval climate anomaly and little ice age. Geosciences, 9, 299, doi:10.3390/geosciences9070299. The paper is available as a 1.9Mb pdf file.

Randall, D. A., P. R. Gent, et al., 2019: 100 years of Earth System Model development. AMS Met. Monographs, doi:10.1175/AMSMONOGRAPHS-D-18-0018.1. The paper is available as a 2.8Mb pdf file.

Danabasoglu, G., L. Landrum, S. G. Yeager and P. R. Gent, 2019: Robust and non-robust aspects of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability and mechanisms in the Community Earth System Model. J. Climate, 32, 7349-7368. The paper is available as a 2.8Mb pdf file.

Fasullo, J. T., P. R. Gent, and R. S. Nerem, 2020: Forced patterns of sea level rise in the Community Earth System Model large ensemble from 1920 to 2100. J. Geophys. Res., 125, doi.org/10.1029/2019JC016030. The paper is available as a 20.3Mb pdf file.

Fasullo, J. T., P. R. Gent, and R. S. Nerem, 2020: Sea level rise in the CESM large ensemble: The role of individual climate forcings and consequences for the coming decades. J. Climate, 33, 6911-6927. The paper is available as a 18.7Mb pdf file.

Gent, P. R., 2022: Climate Normals: Are they always communicated correctly? Wea. Forecasting, 37, 1531-1532. The paper is available at Weather and Forecasting.

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