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Position:

Associate Head of Marine Physics and Ocean Climate

Group:

Marine Physics and Ocean Climate

Site:

Southampton

Email:

eck at noc.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)23 8059 6646

Profile

Biography

My interests include the study of air-sea interaction and particularly the development of air-sea interaction datasets.

Roles

Leader of the NOC Surface Processes Sub-group.

Project Responsibilities

Leader of the GloSAT project
Leader of CLASS Work Package: Sustained Ocean Observations
NOC Leader for NERC Grant "Improved projections of winds at the crossroads between Antarctica and the Southern Ocean"

Committees

Projects

Current projects include:

Global Surface Air Temperature (GloSAT) - a NERC-funded Large Grant, led by NOC in collaboration with the Met Office and the Universities of East Anglia, Edinburgh, Reading, Southampton and York
The development of long-term observational datasets of air-sea exchange under CLASS
Quantification of bias and uncertainty in marine surface observations
Improved projections of winds at the crossroads between Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, funded by NERC

Recently completed projects include:

Surface marine in situ observations for the Copernicus Climate Data Store
Development of a new 150-year Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset from ICOADS in the HOSTACE project
Air-sea interaction and ocean heat content in the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal (BoBBLE)
Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports (ORCHESTRA)
The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS)
The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)

Publications