Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2003

Variability of water properties, heat and salt fluxes in the Arabian Sea, between the onset and wane of the 1995 southwest monsoon

Energy storage systems for unmanned underwater vehicles

Identification of bottom-simulating reflectors related to gas hydrates, silicate diagenesis, and other P/T dependent sediment processes (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Biodiversity and ecology of deep-sea benthic foraminifera of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Friction and mixing in the Faroe Bank Channel outflow

Eddy mass transport for the Southern Ocean in an eddy-permitting global ocean model

An inversion algorithm for gas hydrate quantification (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends?

Extremes in temperature and salinity during the 1990s in the northern Rockall Trough: results from the 'Ellett line'

Magmato-tectonic cyclicity at the ultra-slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: Evidence from variations of axial volcanic ridge morphology and abyssal hills pattern

Ultraplankton distribution in surface waters of the Mozambique Channel – flow cytometry and satellite imagery

Rapid climate change: scientific challenges and the new NERC programme

RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 81, 18 Dec 2002-02 Jan 2003. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b – Elephant Island to Burdwood Bank

Multiple satellite observations of oceanic planetary waves: techniques and findings

Flow at intermediate depths around Madagascar based on ALACE float trajectories

Numerical modelling of mud volcanoes and their flows using constraints from the Gulf of Cadiz

SOFT feature-tracking software handbook

Comparison between XBT data and TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimetry in the Ligurian-Tyrrhenian area

Measuring rainfall from above and below the sea surface

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 139, 01 Mar-15 Apr 2002. Trans-Indian Hydrographic Section across 32°S

A visible record of eddies in the southern Mozambique Channel

Diversity of deep-sea benthic foraminifera - molecular and morphological aspects

RV Pelagia Cruise 64PE219, 05 Nov – 24 Nov 2003. TOBI surveys of Setubal and Nazarre Canyons and of the MV Prestige wreck site, west of Iberia

Cruise Report: CD149 – RRS Charles Darwin 18th July to 6th August, 2003. Spreading-ridge geometry, hydrothermal activity, and the influence of modern and ancient hotspots on the Carlsberg Ridge - northwestern Indian Ocean

SOFT Development of feature tracking methods

ANDEEP: Antarctic benthic deep-sea biodiversity - colonization history and recent community structure

Quantifying the effects of airflow distortion on anemometer wind speed measurements from merchant ships

Report on the technical issues of using GNU EPrints Software for the development of an institutional e-Print repository at the University of Southampton

Weathering the storm: developments in the acoustic sensing of wind and rain

Dressed up for the deep: a cloak of agglutinated protozoans adorns an irregular urchin

Long extratropical planetary wave propagation in the presence of slowly varying mean flow and bottom topography. Part I: the local problem

RRS Discovery Cruise 249, 19 Aug-10 Sep 2000. History of sedimentation in the Gulf of Cadiz: investigations with the SOC giant piston corer

FUJI Dome: A large detachment fault near 64°E on the very slow-spreading southwest Indian Ridge

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 141, 01 Jun-11 Jul 2002. Satellite Calibration and Interior Physics of the Indian Ocean: SCIPIO

Along or across front survey strategy? An operational example at an unstable front.

SOFT Wave forecasting report - v.1.0

A plankton guide to ocean physics: Colouring in the currents round South Africa and Madagascar

Circulation and fluxes in the Nordic Seas and exchanges with the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Rain-flagging of the Envisat altimeter

2002

Inverted echo sounders in the Denmark Strait, as part of FS 'Meteor' cruise 50/3, June 21, 2001 - July 15, 2001

Primary and bacterial production in the Mediterranean Sea: a modelling study

A PW91 Density Functional Study of Conformational Choice in 2-Phenylethanol,n-Butylbenzene, and Their Cations: Problems for Density Functional Theory?

Seasonal variation in bioluminescence in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic Ocean to 4800 m depth

Baited camera observations of deep-sea demersal fishes of the northeast Atlantic Ocean at 15-28°N off West Africa

Measurement of in situ oxygen consumption of deep-sea fish using an autonomous lander vehicle

DMSP removal and DMSO production in sedimenting particulate matter in the northern North Sea

Influence of photochemistry on the marine biogeochemical cycle of dimethylsulphide in the northern North Sea

Balancing the SOC climatology using inverse analysis with spatially fixed parameter adjustments. COAPEC Project - Balancing the Atlantic Heat and Freshwater Budgets, Report No. 1

Assessment of biases in merchant ship surface temperatures

Near-bed turbulence measurements, stress estimates and sediment mobility at the continental shelf edge