Wilbert Weijer

Education

• Ph.D., Physical Oceanography
• Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 2000

• M.Sc., Geophysics; cum laude
• Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 1995

• M.Sc, Physical Oceanography; cum laude
• Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 1994

• B.Sc., Geophysics; with honors
• Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 1990

Positions

• 2016 - Present | Scientist 4
• 2006 - 2016 | Scientist 3

Professional Societies

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• American Meteorological Society (AMS)

Publications

• Cheng, W., W. Weijer, W. M. Kim, G. Danabasoglu, S. G. Yeager, P. R. Gent, D. Zhang, J. C. H. Chiang, and J. Zhang, 2018: Can the salt-advection feedback be detected in internal variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? Journal of Climate, in press.
• Drake, H. F., A. K. Morrison, S. M. Griffies, J. L. Sarmiento, W. Weijer, and A. R. Gray, 2018: Lagrangian Timescales of Southern Ocean Upwelling in a Hierarchy of Model Resolutions. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 891-898.
• Tamsitt, V., H. F. Drake, A. K. Morrison, L. D. Talley, C. O. Dufour, A. R. Gray, S. M. Griffies, M. R. Mazloff, J. L. Sarmiento, J. Wang and W. Weijer, 2017: Spiraling pathways of global deep waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications 8, 172, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00197-0.
• Weijer, W., M. Veneziani, A. Stössel, M. W. Hecht, N. Jeffery, A. Jonko, T. Hodos, and H. Wang, 2017: Local atmospheric response to an open-ocean polynya in a high-resolution climate model. Journal of Climate, 30, 1629-1641.
• Biastoch, A., J. Durgadoo, A. K. Morrison, E. van Sebille, W. Weijer, and Stephen M. Griffies, 2015: Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation covaries with Agulhas Leakage. Nature Communications, 6, 10082, doi:10.1038/ncomms10082.
• Weijer, W., M. E. Maltrud, W. B. Homoky, K. L. Polzin, and L. R. M. Maas, 2015: Eddy-driven sediment transport in the Argentine Basin: is the height of the Zapiola Rise hydrodynamically controlled? Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 120, doi: 10.1002/2014JC010573.
• Downes, S. M., W. Weijer, N. Jeffery, M. Mazloff, and J. Russell, 2015: Southern Ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry in a changing climate: Introduction and overview. Deep-Sea Research II, 114, 1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.013.
• Weijer, W., 2015: Modal variability in the Southeast Pacific Basin: Energetics of the 2009 event. Deep-Sea Research II, 114, 3-11, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.10.002.
• van Sebille, E., P. Scussolini, J. Durgadoo, F. Peeters, A. Biastoch, W. Weijer, C. Turney, C. Paris, and R. Zahn, 2015: Ocean currents generate large footprints in marine palaeoclimate proxies. Nature Communications, 6, 6521, doi:10.1038/ncomms7521.
• Weijer, W., and E. van Sebille, 2014: Impact of Agulhas Leakage on the Atlantic overturning circulation in the CCSM4. Journal of Climate, 27, 101-110.
• den Toom, M., H. A. Dijkstra, W. Weijer, M. W. Hecht, M. E. Maltrud, and E. van Sebille, 2014: Sensitivity of a strongly eddying global ocean to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 464-481.
• Weijer, W., V. V. Zharkov, D. Nof, H. A. Dijkstra, W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, and F. Wubs, 2013: Agulhas ring formation as a barotropic instability of the retroflection. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 5435-5438, doi:10.1002/2013GL057751.
• Weijer, W., E. Muñoz, N. Schneider, and F. Primeau, 2013: Pacific Decadal Variability: Paced by Rossby Basin Modes? Journal of Climate, 26, 1445-1456.
• Weijer, W., M. E. Maltrud, M. W. Hecht, H. A. Dijkstra, and M. Kliphuis, 2012: Response of the Atlantic Ocean circulation to Greenland ice sheet melting in a strongly-eddying ocean model. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09606, doi:10.1029/2012GL051611.
• Weijer, W., B. M. Sloyan, M. E. Maltrud, N. Jeffery, M. W. Hecht, C. A. Hartin, E. van Sebille, I. Wainer, and L. Landrum, 2012: The Southern Ocean and its Climate in CCSM4. Journal of Climate, 25, 2652-2675.