Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2002

Records of radionuclide deposition in two salt marshes in the United Kingdom with contrasting redox and accumulation conditions

Transformation of dimethylsulphoniopropionate to dimethyl sulphide during summer in the North Sea with an examination of key processes via a modelling approach

Seafloor imagery from the BIG'95 debris flow, western Mediterranean

The use of AVHRR data in a pilot study for investigating and modelling regional ocean circulation

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)

On the circulation of bottom water in the region of the Vema Channel

Depth-related distribution and abundance of seastars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Porcupine Seabight and Porcupine Abyssal Plain, N.E. Atlantic

Water masses and baroclinic transports in the South Atlantic and southern oceans

Labrador Sea boundary currents and the fate of the Irminger Sea water

The uptake of silica during the spring bloom in the north-east Atlantic Ocean (abstract of paper presented at ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 11-15 Feb 2002)

AUV'S: getting them out of the water

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

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)

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

Variability and predictability of the North Atlantic wave climate

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)