Group
Ocean Modelling
Site
Southampton
Email
axy at noc.ac.uk
I'm a marine biogeochemical modeller, working almost exclusively at global scale, and typically on research around the carbon cycle and the ocean's response to climate change. I'm the lead developer of the MEDUSA open ocean plankton ecosystem / biogeochemistry model, and lead a small team of researchers at NOC developing and using this model. MEDUSA is typically run within the NEMO general circulation model, across a range of resolutions (1°, 1/4°, 1/12°) and in both open ocean and shelf seas configurations. NEMO-MEDUSA also serves as the ocean component of the UK's Earth system model, UKESM1, and I am a member of this model's core development team responsible for delivering simulations to the CMIP process. Aside from MEDUSA, I also maintain an interest in the BORIS benthic ecosystem model and uses of this relating to both time change and deep-sea mining.
I've listed some examples of my work below ...
I've listed some examples of my work below ...
- Global-scale plankton ecosystem modelling (e.g., Yool et al., 2013, 2020, 2021)
- Biogeochemistry of the ocean's carbon cycle (e.g., Orr et al., 2005)
- Role of nitrification in the ocean’s nitrogen cycle (e.g., Yool et al., 2007; Yool, 2009)
- Geoengineering (e.g., Yool et al., 2009; Palmieri & Yool, 2024)
- Benthic ecology (e.g., Kelly-Gerreyn et al., 2014; Yool et al., 2017)
- Diatom ecology and the ocean’s silicon cycle (e.g., Yool & Tyrrell, 2003, 2005)
Open ocean biogeochemical modelling
- JGOFS Global Synthesis and Modelling Working Group (2001–2002)
- NOC Friday Seminar Series Organising Committee (2009–2011)
- NERC UK Ocean Acidification Programme Advisory Group (2009–2013)
- NOC Awards Committee (2011–2013)
- UK OMIP lead (2016–2020)
- Geoscientific Model Development topic editor (2014–)
- TerraFIRMA
- BIOPOLE
- AtlantiS
- SMARTEX
- OptimESM
