Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2002

The distribution of the xenophyophore Syringammina fragilissima in the northeast Atlantic and its influence on the diversity of bathyal foraminiferal assemblages

Mesoscale distribution of dominant bacterioplankton groups in the northern North Sea in early summer

Book review: Air-sea interaction: laws and mechanisms, (by G.T. Csanady, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 239pp.)

From Dave Billett aboard RRS "Discovery"

The morphology of the submarine flanks of volcanic ocean islands. A comparative study of the Canary and Hawaiian hotspot islands

Chaotic and regular trajectories in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Operational oceanography using the new SeaSoar undulator

An experiment to determine if the foraminiferan Haynesina germanica consumes sewage-derived organic matter, using fatty acid and sterol (corpostanol) biomarkers

Is it possible to measure ocean surface slopes with a microwave radar at nadir probing?

The WOCE IPO through the years

Evaluation of ocean model ventilation with CFC-11: comparison of 13 global ocean models

An improved method for extracting marine sediment fractions and its application to Sr and Nd isotopic analysis

The Volvo Ocean Adventure

Azimuthal seismic anisotropy in a zone of exhumed continental mantle, West Iberia margin

Book review: Ocean circulation and climate: modelling and observing the global ocean. (ed. G.Siedler, J.Church and J.Gould, Academic Press, 2001, 715pp.)

From the Director of the ICPO

Dimethyl sulphide biogeochemistry within a coccolithophore bloom (DISCO): an overview

A new species of Rosacea (Siphonophora: Calycophorae: Prayidae) from the Gulf of Oman

Two circulation regimes of the Mediterranean outflow revealed by Lagrangian measurements

Fluxes to sediments underlying the Rainbow hydrothermal plume at 36°14′N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Geochemical evidence of denitrification in the Benguela upwelling system

Coupled 3D physical and biological modelling of the mesoscale variability observed in north-east Atlantic in spring 1997: biological processes

An ocean resonance in the southeast Pacific

Development and validation of altimeter wind speed algorithms using an extended collocated buoy/TOPEX dataset

Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates

Assessing trends in nutrient concentrations in coastal shelf seas: a case study in the Irish Sea

Impact of including dissolved organic matter in a global ocean box model on simulated distributions and fluxes of carbon and nitrogen

Lagrangian motion of particles and tracers on isopycnals

Managing climate science

The photophores of the squid family Cranchiidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida)

Variability and predictability of the North Atlantic wave climate

Hydrothermal plume processes in the Indian Ocean (Kairei and Edmond vent-sites, Central Indian Ridge) (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

Melt inclusions in plagioclase and olivine phenocrysts in basalts from the Southwest Indian Ridge: insights into melt extraction and magma chamber processes

Observing the Agulhas and Madagascar retroflections (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

Turbidity current sediment waves on irregular slopes: observations from the Orinoco sediment-wave field

Total dissolvable manganese anomalies over the Knipovich Ridge: evidence for hydrothermal activity (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

Understanding the biogeography of chemosynthetic ecosystems

Small scale geochemical variability in the basalts from the Lucky Strike Hydrothermal Field

High variability of primary production in the Atlantic subtropical gyres: uncoupling from phytoplankton biomass and size structure

News from the WOCE IPO

Soft-shelled benthic foraminifera from a hadal site (7800m water depth) in the Atacama Trench (SE Pacific): preliminary observations

Temporal variability of upper ocean biology in the northeast Atlantic and the link to deep water particle flux

Hydrothermal plume - particle fluxes at 13N on the East Pacific Rise

Plankton distribution spectra: inter-size class variability and the relative slopes for phytoplankton and zooplankton

A two-parameter wind speed algorithm for Ku-band altimeters

Sea level in the Mediterranean Sea: the contribution of temperature and salinity changes

Initiation and evolution of turbidity current sediment waves in the Magdalena turbidite system

Plume-ridge interaction: a geochemical perspective from the Reykjanes Ridge

Towards 3-D ecosystem modelling of the Irish Sea