Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2002

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

Directly measured mid-depth circulation in the northeastern North Atlantic Ocean

News from the WOCE IPO: last but not least

Foraminifera associated with phytodetritus deposits at a bathyal site in the northern Rockall Trough (NE Atlantic): seasonal contrasts and a comparison of stained and dead assemblages

Modelling the seasonal cycle of the exchange flow in Bab el Mandab (Red Sea)

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)

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

Understanding the biogeography of chemosynthetic ecosystems

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

News from the WOCE IPO

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

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

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

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

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

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

Towards 3-D ecosystem modelling of the Irish Sea

The role of aeolian dust in scavenging rare earth elements from the ocean

How far ahead could we predict El Nino?

Marine microlights: the luminous marine bacteria

Spurious diapycnal mixing of the deep waters in an eddy-resolving ocean model (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

The magnitude of spring bacterial production in the North Atlantic Ocean

A theme issue on the biology and biodiversity of 'Allogromiid' foraminifera

The Mediterranean overflow and its influence on the North Atlantic circulation in a global ocean model (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

An ocean resonance in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean

The path of the overflow from the sills in the Sicily Strait