Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2026

Contrasting nitrogen fixation between Arctic and Atlantic waters in the Fram Strait

Isopycnal Stirring and Diapycnal Mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic Inferred from Argo Observations

Benchmark of plankton images classification: emphasizing features extraction over classifier complexity

A new index used to characterise the extent of Antarctic marine coastal winds in climate projections

Remineralisation changes dominate oxygen variability in the North Atlantic

Evaluating SWOT in the Coastal Zone: Comparisons With Tide Gauge and Airborne LiDAR in the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary, UK

Genes, shells, and AI: using computer vision to detect cryptic morphological divergence between genetically distinct populations of limpets

Review article: Weddell Sea Polynya formation, cessation and climatic impacts

Strengthening of Labrador Sea overturning linked to subsurface freshening over recent decades

Three historic tide gauge records from Svalbard

40 priority questions to advance understanding of the risks and opportunities of UK marine heatwaves

A decade of continuous Rockall Trough transport observations using moorings and gliders

Implications for oceanographic and seafloor geodetic applications due to settling of self‐calibrating bottom pressure recorders

Co-benefits reveal the true value of blue ecosystems

2025

A lab-on-a-chip system integrating DNA purification and loop-mediated isothermal amplification for the quantification of the toxic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata

The genome sequence of the highfin lizardfish, Bathysaurus mollis Günther, 1878 (Aulopiformes: Bathysauridae)

The Internal Waves Service Workshop: Observing Internal Waves Globally with Deep Learning and Synthetic Aperture Radar

Critical knowledge gaps in the conservation and restoration of cold‐water corals

Warming trend in the western Indian Ocean driven by oceanic transport

The Evolution of Southern Ocean Net Primary Production in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities

An observational record of global gridded near-surface air temperature change over land and ocean from 1781

Deep-sea gas hydrate mounds and chemosynthetic fauna discovered at 3640 m on the Molloy Ridge, Greenland Sea

An energetically and observationally constrained mesoscale parameterization for ocean climate models

High‐Impact Low‐Likelihood Climate Scenarios for Risk Assessment in the UK

A new species of Melinnopsis (Annelida, Melinnidae) from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, northeast Atlantic

ENSO impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries in the tropical and South Atlantic

Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity

Discovery of a mud‐covering cephalopod evidences the complex life habits in the abyss

Azimuthal sensitivity and spatio-temporal decimation of data from distributed acoustic sensing on submarine cables for offshore earthquake early warning systems

A rock physics model for predicting the velocities of isotropic sediments hosting heterogeneously distributed gas hydrates

Cross-calibration of multiple optical instruments for the measurement of particle size distributions in water

Dependence of Archie’s saturation exponent on hydrate saturation and hydrate morphology: a study from fluid-displacing and fracture-filling hydrate reservoirs

Cold lenses in the Amundsen Sea: impacts of sea ice formation on subsurface pH and carbon

Next-generation sensor data acquisition onboard NERC deep water research vessels: a deliverable report for the AMPLIFY-EDS project

Drifting in the abyss: an in-situ observation of swimming in Psychropotes (Psychropotidae, Elasipodida, Holothuroidea)

Diapycnal nutrient fluxes and a practical assessment of the biological nutrient trap in the north and south Atlantic subtropical gyres

Guanidine-based chloroaluminate electrolyte: A candidate for a rechargeable aluminum battery

Determination of the coefficient of diffusivity of potential vorticity in a zonal channel

Towards a ‘theory of change’ for ocean plastics: a socio-oceanography approach to the global challenge of plastic pollution

Future climate projections in the global coastal ocean

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and improving a database of biodiversity time series

Improving in situ real-time classification of long-tail marine plankton images for ecosystem studies

Coherence of the AMOC over the subpolar North Atlantic on interannual to multiannual time scales

Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia

Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago

The hanging gardens of Blanes Canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Organic metabolite uptake by diazotrophs in the North Pacific Ocean

Massive occurrence of a new soft-walled monothalamous foraminifer, Bathyallogromia brandtae n.sp., in the hadal Aleutian trench

Observations of Upper-Ocean Kinetic Energy Transfers between Near-Inertial Internal Waves and Low-Frequency Dynamics

Prokaryotic metabolic response to water-soluble polymers enhances oxygen drawdown in freshwater systems: A polyethylene glycol case study