Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2000

The northwest African slope apron: a modern analogue for deep-water systems with complex seafloor topography

Origin and evolution of a submarine large igneous province: the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge, southern Indian Ocean

Turbidity current sediment waves on the submarine slopes of the western Canary Islands

Ocean circulation

Second-order segmentation; the relationship between volcanism and tectonism at the MAR, 38N-35 40N

Variability of water masses through the Mernoo Saddle, South Island, New Zealand

Foraminifera in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone and other oxygen-deficient settings: taxonomic composition, diversity, and relation to metazoan faunas

Modelling internal waves with a global ocean model

Vertical structure of tidal currents over the Camarinal Sill at the Strait of Gibralter

Hydraulic control of three-layer exchange flows: application to the Bab al Mandab

Near-bottom zooplankton

Phytoplankton, nutrients and hydrography in the frontal zone between the Southwest Indian Subtropical gyre and the Southern Ocean

Wind-driven surface waves on Titan

Integrated use of altimeter and in situ data for understanding the water exchanges between the Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas

Non-transform offsets along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Azores (38N-34N): ultramafic exposures and hosting of hydrothermal vents

Propagation characteristics of extratropical planetary waves observed in the ATSR global sea surface temperature record

A study of the balance of horizontal momentum in a vertical shearing current

Last glacial jetting of cold waters through the subtropical convergence zone in the southwest Pacific off eastern New Zealand, and some geological implications

A new approach to the sigma-coordinate pressure gradient problem in a terrain-following bottom boundary layer model

The oxygen isotope composition of water masses in the northern North Atlantic

Three-dimensional spatial coordinates of individual plankton determined using underwater hologrammetry

Oceanographic evidence for a transient geothermal event affecting the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

The role of the Southern Ocean in the upwelling of North Atlantic Deep Water

Vertical and lateral splitting of a hydrothermal plume at Steinaholl, Reykjanes Ridge, Iceland

Low sea-level stand emplacement of megaturbidites in the western and eastern Mediterranean Sea

Molecular and morphological identification of settlement-stage vent mussel larvae, Bathymodiolus azoricus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), preseserved in situ at active vent fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Sensing invisible waves

Geophysical biology?

Monitoring and cross-calibration of altimeter σ0 through dual-frequency backscatter measurements

Water mass properties and fluxes in the Rockall Trough, 1975-1998

Fish do not avoid survey vessels (addendum)

NE Atlantic palaeoceanography and climatic change

Quantitative microwave backscatter measurements from the ocean surface using digital marine radar images

Spatial and temporal patterns linking southern low and high latitudes during South Pacific warm and cold events

An intercomparison of internal solitary waves in the Bay of Biscay and resulting from Korteweg-de Vries-Type theory

News from the WOCE IPO

Recent variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation inferred from surface heat and freshwater fluxes

Temperature/pressure tolerance of the first larval stage of Mirocaris fortunata from Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field

On the apparent "imbalance" term in the turbulent kinetic energy budget

Reproductive biology, sexual dimorphism, and population structure of the deep sea hydrothermal vent scale-worm, Branchipolynoe seepensis (Polychaeta: Polynoidae)

Toxic vents and DNA damage

Measuring salinity from space

Sea level drop in the Mediterranean Sea: an indicator of deep water salinity and temperature changes?

Using optimal interpolation and EOF analysis on North Atlantic satellite data

Axial magma reservoirs located by variation in lava chemistry along Iceland's mid-ocean ridge

Duration of S1, the most recent sapropel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, as indicated by accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and geochemical evidence

Biological pump and vertical mixing in the Southern Ocean: their impact on atmospheric CO2

The effect of successive correction on variability estimates for climatological datasets

Changes in the deep and bottom waters of the Scotia Sea 1995-1999

Estimation of the transports through the Strait of Gibraltar