Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2005

Monothalamous foraminiferans and gromiids (Protista) from western Svalbard: a preliminary survey

Theory of two-layer hydraulic exchange flows with rotation

Extreme spatial variability in marine picoplankton and its consequences for interpreting Eulerian time-series

The seabed appearance of different coral bank provinces in the Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic: results from sidescan sonar and ROV seabed mapping

Absurd silence and misplaced pragmatism: how dissent is kept to manageable levels

Imaging bed geometry and architecture of massive sandstones in the Fontanelice Channels, Italian Apennines, using new digiscoping techniques

The kaleidoscope ocean

Mediterranean sea level trends: atmospheric pressure and wind contribution

Seabed photography from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Decadal changes in ocean properties revealed by ARGO floats

The OCCAM 66 level model: model description, physics, initial conditions and external forcing

The dispersion relation for planetary waves in the presence of mean flow and topography. Part II: two-dimensional examples and global results

Mixing two enriched and distinct mantle sources beneath Lucky Strike segment, 37N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (abstract of paper presented at 15th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, Idaho, , May 2005)

RRS "Discovery" Cruise D297, 27 Jul - 16 Aug 2005. The geobiology of the Nazare and Setubal Canyons, Portuguese Continental Margin

What determines the likelihood of species discovery in marine holozooplankton: is size, range or depth important?

Repositories for research - contributing to the Knowledge Cycle.

Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: a model intercomparison

Basin-scale variability of phytoplankton bio-optical characteristics in relation to bloom state and community structure in the Northeast Atlantic

Southern ocean circulation

Red bioluminescence in fishes: on the suborbital photophores of Malacosteus, Pachystomias and Aristostomias

Amino acid uptake of Prochlorococcus spp. in surface waters across the South Atlantic Subtropical Front

Attenuation of seismic waves in methane gas hydrate-bearing sand

Seismic data reveal eastern Black Sea Basin structure

Focused fluid flow in passive continental margins

Plankton functional type modelling: running before we can walk?

The concept of a microwave radar with an asymmetric knifelike beam for the remote sensing of ocean waves

Morphology, evolution and fill: Implications for sand and mud distribution in filling deep-water canyons and slope channel complexes

RRS "Discovery" Cruise D279, 04 Apr - 10 May 2004. A Transatlantic hydrography section at 24.5N

Hybridisation of picoeukaryotes by eubacterial probes is widespread in the marine environment

A soft solid surface on Titan as revealed by the Huygens Surface Science Package

A new species of Physophora (Siphonophora: Physonectae: Physophoridae) from the North Atlantic, with comments on related species

Constraining the effect of mesoscale features on the carbon budget of the photic layer in the NE subtropical Atlantic

Marrus claudanielis, a new species of deep-sea physonect siphonophore (Siphonophora, Physonectae)

Deep-sea benthic sampling

Detection and processing of bistatically reflected GPS signals from low Earth orbit for the purpose of ocean remote sensing

A re-examination of siphonophore terminology and morphology, applied to the description of two new prayine species with remarkable bio-optical properties

RRS "Charles Darwin" Cruise CD166, 29 Oct - 22 Nov 2004. Sedimentary processes and deposits in the Agadir Basin and Gulf of Cadiz

Towards measuring the meridional overturning circulation from space

Parameterizing the sea surface roughness

Structure and transport of the agulhas Current and its temporal variability

The second species of Gromia (Protista) from the deep sea: its natural history and association with the Pakistan Margin Oxygen Minimum Zone

Thermohaline circulation at three key sections in the North Atlantic over 1985-2002

Quantifying random measurement errors in Voluntary Observing Ships' meteorological observations

Role of cold-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs as fish habitat in the NE Atlantic

Sea level variability at Adriatic coast and its relationship to atmospheric forcing

Control of the diffusive boundary layer on benthic fluxes: a model study

An evaluation of along- and down-slope sediment transport processes between Goban Spur and Brenot Spur on the Celtic Margin of the Bay of Biscay

Deep western boundary current east of Abaco: mean structure and transport

The influence of the temperature variations on the sea level around the northern European coasts

Biophysical interactions in high-latitude oceans