Select Publications (Cecilia's CV has a complete listing)

• Bitz, C.M., J. K. Ridley, M. M. Holland, and H. Cattle, 2008: 20th and 21st century Arctic Climate in Global Climate Models, submitted to Arctic Climate Change - The ACSYS Decade and Beyond, edited by P. Lemke

• Bitz, C.M., 2008: Some aspects of uncertainty in predicting sea ice retreat, submitted to Arctic Sea Ice Decline: observations, projections, mechanisms, and implications, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, vol , edited by E. deWeaver, C. M. Bitz, and B. Tremblay, pp. , American Geophysical Union.

• Eisenman, I., C.M. Bitz, and E. Tziperman, 2008: Rain driven by receding ice sheets as a cause of past climate change, submitted.

• Chiang, J.C.H., W. Cheng, and C.M. Bitz, 2008: Teleconnection mechanisms to the tropical Atlantic from an abrupt freshening of the North Atlantic ocean, accepted.

• Stern, H., R. Lindsay, C.M. Bitz, and P. Hezel, 2008: What is the trajectory of Arctic sea ice? submitted to Arctic Sea Ice Decline: observations, projections, mechanisms, and implications, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, vol , edited by E. deWeaver, C. M. Bitz, and B. Tremblay, pp. , American Geophysical Union.

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, B. Tremblay, D. Bailey, 2008: The role of natural versus forced change in future rapid summer Arctic ice loss, submitted to Arctic Sea Ice Decline: observations, projections, mechanisms, and implications, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, vol , edited by E. deWeaver, C. M. Bitz, and B. Tremblay, pp. , American Geophysical Union.

• Rennert, K., G. Roe, J. Putkonen, C. M. Bitz, and D. Russell, 2008: The terrestrial and ecological impacts of rain on snow events in the circumpolar Arctic, submitted to J. Climate, Accepted.

• Cheng, W., C.M. Bitz, and J.C.H. Chiang, 2007: Adjustment of the global climate to an abrupt slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, in AGU monograph on "Past and Future Changes of the Ocean's Meridional Overturning Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts" download

• Bitz, C.M., J.C.H. Chiang, W. Cheng, 2007, and J.J. Barsugli: Rates of thermohaline recovery from freshwater pulses in Modern, Last Glacial Maximum and greenhouse warming Climates, in press, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L07708, doi:10.1029/2006GL029237. Download.
  

• 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, Vol. 19, No. 11, pages 2437--2450.   Download paper with fig 1 corrected after J Clim printing.

• Vancoppenolle, C.M. Bitz, and M, T. Fichefet, 2006: Summer fast ice desalination at Point Barrow, Alaska: Model and observations, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C04022, doi:10.1029/2006JC003493
   
  
• Vancoppenolle, M, T. Fichefet, and C.M. Bitz, 2006: An equilibrium simulation of the Arctic sea-ice salinity profile, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL028342. abstract
   
  
• Schneider, D.P., E.J. Steig, T.D. vanOmmen, D. Dixon, P.A. Mayewski, J.M. Jones, and C.M. Bitz 2006: Antarctic temperatures of the past two centuries from ice cores, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16707, doi:10.1029/2006GL027057. abstract
  

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, and B. Tremblay, 2006: Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2006GL028024. Download
  

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, E.C. Hunke, W.H. Lipscomb, and J.L. Schramm, 2006: Influence of the Sea Ice Thickness Distribution on Polar Climate in CCSM3,  J.  Climate, 19, 2398--2414. abstract

• DeWeaver, E., and C.M. Bitz, 2006: Atmospheric circulation and Arctic sea ice in CCSM3 at medium and high resolution, J. Climate. Vol. 19, No. 11, pages 2415--2436. Download
  

• Bitz, C.M., M.M. Holland, E. Hunke, and R.E. Moritz, 2005: Maintenance of the sea-ice edge, J. Climate,  18, 2903--2921. Download.

• Chiang, J.C.H, and C.M. Bitz, 2005: The influence of high latitude ice on the position of the marine Intertropical Convergence Zone, Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-005-0040-5 Download

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, and E.C. Hunke, 2005: Mechanisms forcing an Antarctic dipole in simulated sea ice and surface ocean conditions, J. Climate, 18, pages 2052-2066. abstract
  

• Vancoppenolle, M, T. Fichefet, and C.M. Bitz, 2005: On the sensitivity of undeformed Arctic sea ice to its vertical salinity profile, Geophys. Res. Lett., VOL. 32, L16502, doi:10.1029/2005GL023427. abstract

• Bitz, C. M. and G. H. Roe, 2004: A Mechanism for the High Rate of Sea-Ice Thinning in the Arctic Ocean, J. Climate, 17, 3622--31. Download reprint.

• U.S. National Committee for the International Polar Year (Chaired by M. Albert), A vision for the International Polar Year 2007-2008, 2004, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 96 pp. Download

• Schmidt, G. A., C. M. Bitz, U. Mikolajewicz and L. B. Tremblay. 2004: Ice-ocean boundary conditions for coupled models. Ocean Modelling, 7, 59-74. doi:10.1016/S1463-5003(03)00030-1. Download reprint.

• Holland, M.M. and C.M. Bitz, 2003: Polar amplification of climate change in the coupled model intercomparison project, Climate Dynamics, 21, 221-232. Download reprint.

• Moritz, R.E, Bitz, C.M., Steig, E. 2002: Dynamics of Recent Climate Change in the Arctic, Science, 297, 1497--1502.

• Bitz, C.M., J. Fyfe, and G. Flato, 2002: Sea ice response to wind forcing from AMIP models, J. Climate, 15, 522-536. Download preprint in Postscript.

• 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. Download full manuscript in Postscript of PDF

• Bitz, C.M., 2001: The Relations Among Sea Ice, Surface Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation in Simulations of Future Climate. 4pp. Extended abstract from meeting on "Arctic Feedbacks to Global Change" in Rovaniemi, Finland (http://www.urova.fi/home/arktinen/a_keynotes.htm). Download paper from PDF.

• Bitz, C.M., M.M. Holland, A.J. Weaver, M. Eby, 2001: Simulating the ice-thickness distribution in a coupled climate model, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 2441-2463. Download full manuscript in Postscript or PDF

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, M. Eby, A.J. Weaver, 2001: The role of ice-ocean interactions in the variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. J. Climate, 14, 656-675. Download

• Holland, M.M., C.M. Bitz, A.J. Weaver, 2001: The influence of sea ice physics on simulations of climate change. J. Geophys. Res. 106, 2441-2464.

• Weaver, A.J., M. Eby, E.C. Wiebe, C.M. Bitz, P.B. Duffy, T.L. Ewen, A.F. Fanning, M.M. Holland, A. MacFadyen, O. Saenko, A. Schmittner, H. Wang, and M. Yoshimori, 2001: The UVic Earth System Climate Model: Model Description, Climatology, and Applications to Past, Present, and Future Climates. Atmos.-Ocean, 39, 361-428.

• Moritz, R.E. and C.M. Bitz, 2000: Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent, Science, 288, 924a. Technical Commentary on Vinnikov et al., 1999, Science 286, 1934.

• Dettinger, M.D., D.S. Battisti, G.J. McCabe, C.M. Bitz, and R.D. Garreaud, 2000: Interhemispheric Effects of Interannual and Decadal Enso-Like Climate Variations on the Americas., Chapter 1 in Present and Past Inter-hemispheric climate linkages in the Americas and their Societal Effects. 1-16

• Weaver, A.J., C.M. Bitz, A.F. Fanning, and M.M. Holland, 1999: Thermohaline circulation: High latitude phenomena and the difference between the Pacific and Atlantic, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27, 231-285.

• Bitz, C.M., and W.H. Lipscomb, 1999: An energy-conserving thermodynamic model of sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15,669-15,677. Download full manuscript in Postscript or PDF

• Bitz, C.M., and D.S. Battisti, 1999: Interannual to Decadal Variability in Climate and the Glacier Mass Balance in Washington, Western Canada, and Alaska, J. Climate, 12, 3181-3196.

• Battisti, D.S., C.M. Bitz and R.E. Moritz, 1997: Do General Circulation Models Underestimate the Natural Variability in the Arctic Climate? J. Climate, 10, 1909-1920.

• Bitz, C.M., D.S. Battisti, R.E. Moritz and J.A. Beesley, 1996: Low-frequency variability in the Arctic atmosphere, sea ice, and upper-ocean climate system, J. Climate, 9, 394-408.