Dr Jeff Polton

Contact details

Position: 
Leader of Shelf and Coastal Processes
Group: 
Marine Systems Modelling
Site: 
Liverpool
Email: 
jelt at noc.ac.uk
Telephone: 
+44 (0)151 795 4832

Profile

Biography

since 2007: National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK.

2004 – 2007: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

2002 – 2004: Research Fellow, University of Reading Met. Dept.

1998 – 2002: PhD, University of Reading Met. Dept., (Advisor: Prof. Marshall).

1995 – 1998: University of Cambridge, MA, Mathematics.

 

Research Themes include:

High Resolution Regional Modelling: Advances in simulation of macrotidal shelf seas for operational models.

Wave processes and turbulence: Turbulence modelling, observation and parameterisation development to improve simulation of the ocean.

Dynamical Ecology: Using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models to investigate the dispersal of commercially or ecologically significant.

Shelf Sea response to changing seas: Impact of changing climate on shelf seas.

 

Research Interest Keywords include:

Tides; internal tides; ocean dynamics; shelf sea dynamics; tidal boundary layer;

Wave induced mixing; Langmuir processes; Large Eddy Simulation techniques;

Regional modelling; regional model configuration; regional model assessment

 

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