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• Bryan, K., A Numerical Investigation of Certain Features of the General Circulation, Tellus, 21(3):163-174, 1959.
• Bryan, K., The Instability of a Two-Layered System Enclosed Between Horizontal Coaxially Rotating Plates, Journal of Meteorology, 17:446-455, 1960.
• Bryan, K., and E. Schroeder, Seasonal Heat Storage in the North Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Meteorology, 17:670-674, 1960.
• Bryan, K., Measurements of Meridional Heat Transport by Ocean Currents. J. Geophys. Res., 67(9), 3403-3414, 1962.
• Bryan, K., A Numerical Investigation of a Nonlinear Model of a Wind-Driven Ocean, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 20(6):594-606, 1963.
• Bryan, K., A Numerical Investigation of a Nonlinear Model of a Wind Driven Ocean, Transactions of New York Academy of Science, Ser.II, 26(2):208-214, 1963.
• Bryan, K., Nonlinear Effects in the Theory of a Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation, Methods in Computational Physics, 4, B. Alder, S. Fernbach and M. Rotenberg, (eds.), Academic Press, NY, 29-43, 1965.
• Bryan, K., A Scheme for Numerical Integration of the Equations of Motion on an Irregular Grid Free of Nonlinear Instability, Monthly Weather Review, 94(1):39-40, 1966.
• Bryan, K., and S. Hellerman, A Test of Convergence of a Numerical Calculation of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 23(3):360-361, 1965.
• Bryan, K., and M.D. Cox, A Numerical Investigation of the Oceanic General Circulation, Tellus, 19(1):54-80, 1967.
• Bryan, K., and M.D. Cox, A Nonlinear Model of an Ocean Driven by Wind and Differential Heating: Part I. Description of the Three-Dimensional Velocity and Density Fields, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 25(6):945-967, 1968.
• Bryan, K., and M.D. Cox, A Nonlinear Model of an Ocean Driven by Wind and Differential Heating: Part II. An Analysis of the Heat, Vorticity, and Energy Balance, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 25(6):968-978, 1968.
• Manabe, S., and K. Bryan, Climate Calculations with a Combined Ocean-Atmosphere Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 26(4):786-789, 1969.
• Bryan, K., A Numerical Method for the Study of the Circulation of the World Ocean, Journal of Computational Physics, 4(3):347-376, 1969.
• Bryan, K., Climate and the Ocean Circulation: III. The Ocean Model, Monthly Weather Review, 97(11):806-827, 1969.
• Orlanski, I., and K. Bryan, Formation of the Thermocline Step Structure by Large-Amplitude Internal Gravity Waves, Journal of Geophysical Research, 74(28):6975-6983, 1969.
• Gill, A.E., and K. Bryan, Effects of Geometry on the Circulation of a Three-Dimensional Southern Hemisphere Ocean Model, Deep Sea Research, 18,685-18,721, 1971.
• Bryan, K., and M.D. Cox, The Circulation of the World Ocean: A Numerical Study. Part I, A Homogeneous Model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2(4):319-335, 1972.
• Bryan, K., and M.D. Cox, An Approximate Equation of State for Numerical Models of Ocean Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2(4):510-514, 1972.
• Manabe, S., K. Bryan, and M.J. Spelman, A Global Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Model. Part I. The Atmospheric Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 5(1):3-29, 1975.
• Bryan, K., S. Manabe, and R.C. Pacanowski, A Global Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Model. Part II. The Oceanic Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 5(1):30-46, 1975.
• Stegen, G.R., F. Ostapoff, K. Bryan and J. Held, Dropped Horizontal Coherence Based on Temperature Profiles in the Upper Thermocline, Journal of Geophysical Research, 80(27), 3841-3847, 1975.
• Bryan, K., Three-Dimensional Numerical Models of the Ocean Circulation, Proceedings of Symposium of Numerical Models of Ocean Circulation, Durham, NH, OSC/OAB, National Academy of Sciences, 94-l06, 1975.
• Pond, S., and K. Bryan, Numerical Models of the Ocean Circulation, Reviews of Geophys. and Space Physics, 14(2):243-263, 1976.
• Huppert, H.E., and K. Bryan, Topographically Generated Eddies, Deep Sea Research, 23(8): 655-679, 1976.
• Bryan, K., and P. Ripa, The Vertical Structure of North Pacific Temperature Anomalies, Journal of Geophysical Research, 83(C5):24l9-2429, 1978.
• Bryan, K., Ocean Circulation, Geophysical Predictions, Studies in Geophysics, National Academy of Sciences, 178-184, 1978.
• Bryan, K., The Ocean Heat Balance, Oceanus, 21, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 19-26, 1978.
• Bryan, K., Models of the World Ocean, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 3:327- 338, 1979.
• Bryan, K., and L.J. Lewis, A Water Mass Model of the World Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 84(C5):2503-2517, 1979.
• Manabe, S., K. Bryan, and M.J. Spelman, A Global Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Model with Seasonal Variation for Future Studies of Climate Sensitivity, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 3:393-426, 1979.
• Anderson, D.L.T., K. Bryan, A.E. Gill, and R.C. Pacanowski, The Transient Response of the North Atlantic: Some Model Studies, Journal of Geophysical Research, 84(C8): 4795-4815, 1979.
• Bryan, K., Models of the Ocean Circulation and the Global Heat Balance, Proceedings of JOC Study Conference on Climate Models: Performance, Intercomparison, and Sensitivity Studies, Washington, DC, W. Lawrence Gates (ed.), GARP Publication Series 22(1), 23-40, 1979.
• Bryan, K., F.G. Komro, S. Manabe, and M.J. Spelman, Transient Climate Response to Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Science, 215:6-58, 1982.
• Sarmiento, J.L., and K. Bryan, An Ocean Transport Model for the North Atlantic, Journal of Geophysical Research, 87(C1):394-408, 1982.
• Bryan, K., Poleward Heat Transport by the Ocean: Observations and Models, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 10:15-38, 1982.
• Bryan, K., Seasonal Variation in Meridional Overturning and Poleward Heat Transport in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: A Model Study, Journal of Marine Research, 40: 39-53, 1982.
• Bryan, K., Poleward Heat Transport by the Ocean, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 21(5):1131-1137, 1983.
• Bryan, K., F.G. Komro and C. Rooth, The Ocean's Transient Response to Global Surface Temperature Anomalies, Geophysical Monograph, 29(5):29-38, 1984.
• Hibler, W.D., III, and Kirk Bryan, Ocean Circulation: Its Effect on Seasonal Sea-Ice Simulations, Science, 224(4648):489-492, 1984.
• Cox, M.D., and K. Bryan, A Numerical Model of the Ventilated Thermocline, Physics of Oceanography, 14(4):674-687, 1984.
• Bryan, K., Accelerating the Convergence to Equilibrium of Ocean-Climate Models, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 14(4):666-673, 1984.
• Bryan, K., and S. Manabe, A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere and the Response to Increasing Atmospheric CO2. Proceedings of the Liege Colloquium (1984), World Climate Research Programme. J.C.J. Nihoul (ed). Coupled-Ocean Atmosphere Models, pp.1-6, Elsevier Science Pub. Amsterdam, Holland, May 1984.
• Bryan, K., and J.L. Sarmiento, Modeling Ocean Circulation, Advances in Geophysics, (28), A. Climate Dynamics, B. Saltzman (ed.), Academic Press, New York, 433-459, 1985.
• Bryan, K., and M.J. Spelman, The Ocean's Response to a CO2-Induced Warming, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90(C6),11,679-11,688, 1985.
• Manabe, S., and K. Bryan, CO2-Induced Change in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model and Its Paleoclimatic Implications, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90(C11):689-11707, 1985.
• Bogue, N.M., R.-X. Huang, and K. Bryan, Verification Experiments with an Isopycnal Coordinate Ocean Model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 16(5):985-990, 1986.
• Bryan, K., Poleward Buoyancy Transport in the Ocean and Mesoscale Eddies, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 16(5):928-933, 1986.
• Bryan, K., Man's Great Geophysical Experiment: Can We Model the Consequences? Oceanus, 29(4):36-42, 1986.
• Hibler, W.D., and K. Bryan, A Diagnostic Ice-Ocean Model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 17(7):978-1015, 1987.
• Bryan, K., Potential Vorticity in Models of the Ocean Circulation, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 113,713-113,734, 1988.
• Huang, R.-X., and K. Bryan, A Multi-Layer Model of the Thermohaline and Wind Driven Ocean Circulation: Model Development and Initial Test, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 17(11):1909-1924,(1987).
• Bryan, K., S. Manabe, and M.J. Spelman, Interhemispheric Asymmetry in the Transient Response of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to a CO2 Forcing, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 18(6):851-867, 1988.
• Toggweiler, J.R., K. Dixon, and K. Bryan, Simulations of Radiocarbon in a Coarse-Resolution, World Ocean Model I:Ready-State, Pre-Bomb Distributions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94(C6):8217-8242, 1989.
• Toggweiler, J.R., K. Dixon, and K. Bryan, Simulations of Radiocarbon in a Coarse Resolution World Ocean Model II:Distributions of Bomb-Produced 14C, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94(C6):8243-8264, 1989.
• Stouffer, R.J., S. Manabe, and K. Bryan, On The Climate Change Induced by a Gradual Increase of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Nature, 342:660-662, 1989.
• Bryan, K., Climate Response to Greenhouse Warming: The Role of the Ocean, in "Climate and the Geosciences", Klower Academic Publishers, 435-446, 1989.
• Bryan, K., The Design of Numerical Models of the Ocean Circulation, in "Ocean Circulation Models:Combining Data and Dynamics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 465-500, 1989.
• Bryan, K., A Review of "Mathematical Modelling of Ocean Circulation", G. I. Marchuk and A. S. Sarkisyan, Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, 71(2):209-210, 1990.
• Manabe, S., K. Bryan, and M.J. Spelman, Transient Response of a Global Ocean-Atmosphere Model to a Doubling of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 20(5):722-749, 1990.
• Bretherton, F., K. Bryan, and J. Woods, Time-Dependent Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change, In Climate Change, the IPCC Scientific Assessment, (eds. J.T. Houghton, G.J. Jenkins, and J.J. Ephraums, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• Bryan, K., and R. Stouffer, A Note on Bjerknes' Hypothesis for North Atlantic Variability, Journal of Marine Systems, 1:229-241, 1991.
• Manabe, S., R.J. Stouffer, M.J. Spelman, and K. Bryan. Transient Responses of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model to Gradual Changes of Atmospheric CO2, Part I: Annual Mean Response, Journal of Climate, 4(8):785-818, 1991.
• Bryan, K., Michael Cox (1941-1989): His Pioneering Contributions to Ocean Circulation Modelling, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 21(9):1259-1270, 1991.
• Gordon, A.L., S.E. Zebiak, and K. Bryan, Climate Variability and the Atlantic Ocean, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 73(14), 1992
• Tziperman, E., W.C. Thacker, and K. Bryan, Computing the Steady Oceanic Circulation using an Optimization Approach, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 16:379-403, 1992.
• Bryan, K., Poleward Heat Transport in the Ocean: Results from a Hierarchy of Models of Increasing Resolution, A Contribution to the Friiberghs Herrgard Symposium, Tellus, 43,AB:104-114, 1991
• Stephenson, D., and K. Bryan, Large Scale Electric and Magnetic Fields Generated by the Oceans, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97(C10):15,467-15,480, 1992.
• Bryan, K., Ocean Circulation Models, in Strategies for Future Climate Research, M.ÊLatif, Ed., Max Planck Institute fur Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany, 387 pp., 1993.
• Tziperman, E., and K. Bryan, Estimating Global Air-Sea Fluxes from Surface Properties and from Climatological Flux Data using an Oceanic General Circulation Model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98(C12):22,629-22,644, 1993.
• Bryan, K., and F.C. Hansen, A Toy Model of North Atlantic Climate Variability on a Decade to Century Time-Scale, In Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales. D.G. Martinson, K. Bryan, M. Ghill, M. M. Hall, T.R.Karl, E.S. Sarachik, S. Sorooshian, and L.D.Talley, eds., National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1994.
• Tziperman, E., J.R. Toggweiler, Y. Feliks, and K. Bryan, Instability of the Thermohaline Circulation with Respect to Mixed Boundary Conditions: Is it Really a Problem for Realistic Models? Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24(2):217-232, 1994.
• Bryan,K., The steric component of sea level rise associated with enhanced greenhouse warming: a model study. Climate Dynamics 12:545-555, 1996.
• Hsieh, W.W. and K. Bryan, Redistribution of sea level rise associated with enhanced greenhouse warming: a simple model study. Climate Dynamics 12:535-544, 1996.
• Bryan,K., The role of mesoscale eddies in the poleward transport of heat by the oceans: a review,Physica D (Elsevier) 98,249-257, 1996.
• Griffies, S.M and K. Bryan, Predictability of North Atlantic multidecadal climate variability. Science, 275, 181-184, 1997.
• Griffies, S.M and K. Bryan,A predictability study of simulated North Atlantic multidecadal variability. Climate Dynamics,13,459-487, 1997.
• Bryan,K.,J.K. Dukowicz and R.D.Smith, A Note on the Mixing Coefficient in the Parameterization of Bolus Velocity. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29,2442-2456,1999.
• Park, Y.-G. and K. Bryan, Comparison of Thermally Driven Circulations from a Depth Coordinate Model and an Isopycnal Layer Model: Part I. A Scaling Law - Sensitivity to Vertical Diffusivity. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 590-605, 2000.
• Park, Y.-G. and K. Bryan, Comparison of Thermally Driven Circulations from a Depth Coordinate Model and an Isopycnal Layer Model: Part II. The Difference in Structure and Circulations. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2612-2624, 2001.
• Cessi, P., K. Bryan, R. Zhang, 2004: Global seiching of thermocline waters between the Atlantic and the Indian-Pacific Ocean Basins. Geophysical Research Letters, Feb. 2004
• Williams,G., K. Bryan,Ice Age Winds: An Aquaplanet Model, J. of Climate, Vol. 19, No. 9, pages 1706-1715. 2006
• List updated 19 April, 2006