Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2003

The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on sea-level variability in the North Atlantic region

Particle export in the North Atlantic: an integrated attack using production rates, tracres and a novel drifting sediment trap (abstract of paper to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

Is long-term change in the abyssal Northeast Atlantic driven by qualitative changes in export flux? Evidence from selective feeding in deep-sea holothurians

A holographic system for subsea recording and analysis of plankton and other marine particles (HOLOMAR)

Long extra-tropical planetary wave propagation in the presence of slowly varying mean flow and bottom topography. II: ray propagation and comparison with observations

An introduction to the benthic ecology of the Faroe-Shetland Channel (SEA4)

Finding the true temperature of the ocean surface

Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) - a new UK programme (abstract of poster to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

A global analysis of the diurnal sea surface temperature cycle (abstract of paper to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

Life on "Discovery" forty years ago

Observations of seasonal exchange through the Straits of Hormuz and the inferred heat and freshwater budgets of the Persian Gulf

Seafloor sediments and sedimentary processes on the outer continental shelf, continental slope and basin floor

Improving merchant ship air temperatures using an analytical model of the heating errors

Retroflection or retro-fiction - whither the East Madagascar Current? (abstract of poster to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

New and export production deduced from the annual cycle of dissolved organic matter in the Irminger Basin (abstract to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

On the role of biological dynamics in plankton patchiness at the mesoscale: an example from the north east Atlantic (abstract of poster to be presented at: AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, 26-30 January 2004, Portland, Oregon)

Seasonality and selectivity in the feeding ecology and reproductive biology of deep-sea bathyal holothurians

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 143, 22 Nov-20 Dec 2002. SCHEHEREZADE II: Geological and biological surveys of the Arabian Sea and the continental slope of Oman

Water and sediment movement around a coastal headland: Portland Bill, southern UK

The ICES Annual Ocean Climate Status Summary: 2000/2001

The N:Si:P molar ratio in the Strait of Gibraltar

Phytoplankton patchiness: the role of lateral stirring and mixing

Impact of eddy-induced transport on the Lagrangian structure of the upper branch of the thermohaline circulation

The uptake of silica during the spring bloom in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Transports and budgets of total inorganic carbon in the subpolar and temperate North Atlantic

High variability of primary production in oligotrophic waters of the Atlantic Ocean: uncoupling from phytoplankton biomass and size structure

On the timing and mechanism of millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial cycle

How wind-forcing and air-sea heat exchange determine the meridional temperature gradient and stratification for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Low bacterial growth efficiency in the oligotrophic eastern Mediterranean Sea: a modelling analysis

Reproductive biology of the abyssal holothurian Amperima rosea: an opportunistic response to variable flux of surface derived organic matter?

The maiden voyage of UK ROV "Isis"

Monitoring the eastern Alboran Sea using combined altimetry and in situ data

Mechanisms of heat, freshwater, oxygen and nutrient transports and budgets at 24.5°N in the subtropical North Atlantic

Monsoon dredging - the Carlsberg Ridge reveals all

Temperature and salinity trends in the upper waters of the Mediterranean Sea as determined from the MEDATLAS dataset

Predictability of decadal variations in the thermohaline circulation climate

Satellite observations of the Agulhas Current system

Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late Nineteenth Century

On the role of biological dynamics in plankton patchiness at the mesoscale: an example from the eastern North Atlantic Ocean

The preservation potential of benthic foraminiferal assemblages at three deep-sea sites in the northeast Atlantic

Rossby waves: synergy in action

Magmatism at the west Iberia non-volcanic rifted continental margin: evidence from analyses of magnetic anomalies

Reply to: Comments on 'The effect of bottom topography on the speed of long extratropical planetary waves'. (Killworth and Blundell: Ibid, 29(10), 2689-2710.)

High-resolution observations of the path of the overflow from the Sicily Strait

Mapping the 3D spatial distribution of dissolved manganese in coastal waters using an in situ analyser and the autonomous underwater vehicle Autosub

Open-ocean convection in the Irminger Sea

Measurements of the offshore wave climate around the British Isles by satellite altimeter

Moorings recovery using the Isis deep submergence ROV

Physical controls on phytoplankton physiology and production at a shelf sea front: a fast repetition-rate fluorometer based field study

A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation