Science - Ocean Circulation: People: Joshua Willis

ECCO
The "Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean" (ECCO) project produces sustained estimates of the complete global three-dimensional state of the ocean by assimilating observations with ocean circulation models.

Willis, J.K., D. P. Chambers, R. S. Nerem, Assessing the Globally Averaged Sea Level Budget on Seasonal to Interannual Time Scales, J. Geophys. Res., in press.
Willis, J. K., J. M. Lyman, G. C. Johnson, and J. Gilson, Correction to Recent cooling of the upper ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16601, doi:10.1029/2007GL030323, 2007.
Willis, J. K., Lyman, J. M., G. C. Johnson, and J. Gilson, In Situ Data Biases and Recent Ocean Heat Content Variability. J. Atmos. Oceanic. Technol., submitted.
Johnson, G. C., J. M. Lyman, and J. K. Willis. 2007. Global Oceans: Heat Content, In State of the Climate in 2006, A. Arguez, Ed., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 6, S31-S33.
Wijffels, S., J. K. Willis, C. Domingues, P. Barker, N. White, A. Gronell, K. Ridgway, and J. Church, Changing eXpendable Bathythermograph Fall-rates and their Impact on Estimates of Thermosteric Sea Level Rise, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., in press.
Willis, J.K., L.-L. Fu, Combining altimeter and subsurface float data to estimate time average circulation in the ocean, J. Geophys. Res., in revision.
Lyman, John M., Willis, Josh K., Johnson, Gregory C., 2006: Recent cooling of the upper ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 33, No. 18, L18604.
Wong, T., B. A. Wielicki, R. B. Lee, G.L. Smith, K. A. Bush, and J. K. Willis, 2006: Re-examination of the observed decadal variability of earth radiation budget using altitude-corrected ERBE/ERBS nonscanner WFOV data, J. Climate, Vol. 19, No. 16.
Contributing author for Chapter 5, "Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level," IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
Hansen, J., L. Nazarenko, R. Ruedy, M. Sato, J. Willis, A. Del Genio, D. Koch, A. Lacis, K. Lo, S. Menon, T. Novakov, J. Perlwitz, G. Russell, G.A. Schmidt, N. Tausnev, 2005: Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications, Science, 308.
Roemmich, D., J. Gilson, J. Willis, P. Sutton, K. Ridgway, 2005: Closing the time-varying mass and heat budgets for large ocean areas: The Tasman Box, J. Climate, 18(13).
Willis, J. K., 2004: Combining satellite and in situ data to make improved estimates of upper-ocean thermal variability on eddy to global scales, Doctoral Dissertation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Willis, J. K., D. Roemmich, and B. Cornuelle, 2004: Interannual variability in upper-ocean heat content, temperature and thermosteric expansion on global scales, J. Geophys. Res., 109 (C12036).
Willis, J. K., D. Roemmich, and B. Cornuelle, 2004: Combining altimetric height with broadscale profile data to estimate steric height, heat storage, subsurface temperature, and sea-surface temperature variability, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (C9), 3292.