Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2016

Prospect risk, pot odds and efficient drill or no-drill decision making: what the exploration business can learn from high stakes poker

CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today’s earth system models

Response of the North Atlantic wave climate to atmospheric modes of variability

Extreme air–sea interaction over the North Atlantic subpolar gyre during the winter of 2013–2014 and its sub-surface legacy

Reduced ascending/descending pass bias in SMOS salinity data demonstrated by observing westward-propagating features in the South Indian Ocean

Spatial and temporal scales of variability in Tropical Atlantic sea surface salinity from the SMOS and Aquarius satellite missions

A practical guide to the use of success versus failure statistics in the estimation of prospect risk

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling

Technologies for retrieving sediment cores in Antarctic subglacial settings

Generation of internal waves by eddies impinging on the western boundary of the North Atlantic

Corers and grabs

2015

Serving GODAE data and products to the ocean community

Communicating thematic data quality with web map services

A daily Azores-Iceland North Atlantic oscillation index back to 1850

Evaluation of numerical models by FerryBox and fixed platform in situ data in the southern North Sea

A simple optical index shows spatial and temporal heterogeneity in phytoplankton community composition during the 2008 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment

Pond fractals in a tidal flat

The good, the bad, and the tiny: A simple, mechanistic-probabilistic model of virus-nutrient colimitation in microbes

Missing nitrogen fixation in the Benguela region

Behaviour and habitat of Neohela monstrosa (Boeck, 1861) (Amphipoda: Corophiida) in Norwegian Sea deep water

The role of wave dynamics and small-scale topography for downslope wind events in Southeast Greenland

North Atlantic multi-decadal variability — mechanisms and predictability

Global and European climate impacts of a slowdown of the AMOC in a high resolution GCM

Multiple timescales of stochastically forced North Atlantic Ocean variability: A model study

Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in suspended core tellurite microstructured optical fibers

Telecom to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a Silicon Germanium Waveguide

Broadband telecom to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a dispersion-engineered silicon germanium waveguide

Eddy-driven subduction exports particulate organic carbon from the spring bloom

The allometry of the smallest: superlinear scaling of microbial metabolic rates in the Atlantic Ocean

Satellite estimates of net community production indicate predominance of net autotrophy in the Atlantic Ocean

RV Knorr Cruise KN221-02, 9th July – 1st August 2014. OSNAP Mooring Cruise Report

Glider monitoring of shelf suspended particle dynamics and transport during storm and flooding conditions

Seasonal cycle of the mixed layer, the seasonal thermocline and the upper-ocean heat storage rate in the Mediterranean Sea derived from observations

Modeling the global emission, transport and deposition of trace elements associated with mineral dust

Marine biodiversity and ecosystem function relationships: The potential for practical monitoring applications

Habitat area as an indicator of Good Environmental Status under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: the identification of suitable habitat mapping methods with recommendations on best-practice for the reduction of uncertainty

Aerosol time-series measurements over the tropical Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Dust sources, elemental composition and mineralogy

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

Data Management from collection to archival

Orbital control on late Miocene climate and the North African monsoon: insight from an ensemble of sub-precessional simulations

Quasi-synoptic transport, budgets and water mass transformation in the Azores–Gibraltar Strait region during summer 2009

Structure, transports and transformations of the water masses in the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre

Compensation between meridional flow components of the AMOC at 26° N

Estimating the Atlantic overturning at 26°N using satellite altimetry and cable measurements

The DELOS project: Development of a long-term observatory in an oil field environment in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean

Residual circulation modelling at the national UK scale to identify possible sediment pathways to inform decadal coastal geomorphic evolution models

Nautilus samples

Exploring Kick’em Jenny submarine volcano and the Barbados cold seep province, Southern Lesser Antilles

In hot and cold water: differential life-history traits are key to success in contrasting thermal deep-sea environments

Evidence for protracted and lecithotrophic larval development in the yeti crab Kiwa tyleri from hydrothermal vents of the East Scotia Ridge, Southern Ocean