Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2012

Elephant seal foraging dives track prey distribution, not temperature: Comment on McIntyre et al. (2011)

Atlantic transport variability at 25°N in six hydrographic sections

The Role of Carrion Supply in the Abundance of Deep-Water Fish off California

A 20 year independent record of sea surface temperature for climate from Along Track Scanning Radiometers

The influence of productivity on abyssal foraminiferal biodiversity

Islands of Ice: Influence of Free-Drifting Antarctic Icebergs on Pelagic Marine Ecosystems

Seismic evidence for shallow gas-escape features associated with a retreating gas hydrate zone offshore west Svalbard

Variability in phytoplankton community structure in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation and implications for organic carbon flux

Seasonal to interannual phytoplankton response to physical processes in the Mediterranean Sea from satellite observations

Addressing the impact of environmental uncertainty in plankton model calibration with a dedicated software system: the Marine Model Optimization Testbed (MarMOT 1.1 alpha)

Facies architecture of individual basin-plain turbidites: Comparison with existing models and implications for flow processes

Predominance of heavily calcified coccolithophores at low CaCO3 saturation during winter in the Bay of Biscay

Creating Landscape-Scale Maps of Coral Reef Cover for Marine Reserve Management from High-Resolution Multispectral Remote Sensing

The increasing Firecrest population in the New Forest, Hampshire

On the sub-decadal variability of South Atlantic Antarctic Intermediate Water

Adaptation of an osmotically pumped continuous in situ water sampler for application in riverine environments

135 years of global ocean warming between the Challenger expedition and the Argo Programme

A multi-method approach for benthic habitat mapping of shallow coastal areas with high-resolution multibeam data

Rediscovery of the elpidiid holothurian Peniagone horrifer (Elasipodida, Holothuroidea: Echinodermata) in the southern Indian Ocean

Assessing the oceanic control on the amplitude of sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones

The impact of changes in North Atlantic Gyre distribution on water mass characteristics in the Rockall Trough

Tracking the magmatic evolution of island arc volcanism: Insights from a high-precision Pb isotope record of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles

The Porcupine Abyssal Plain fixed-point sustained observatory (PAP-SO): variations and trends from the Northeast Atlantic fixed-point time-series

Acoustic detection of seabed gas leaks, with application to carbon capture and storage (CCS), and leak prevention for the oil and gas industry: preliminary assessment of use of active and passive acoustic inversion for the quantification of underwater ga

Turbulent nutrient fluxes in the Iceland Basin

RRS James Cook Cruise 62, 24 Jul-29 Aug 2011. Porcupine Abyssal Plain – sustained observatory research

Morphometric analysis of the submarine arc volcano Monowai (Tofua – Kermadec Arc) to decipher tectono-magmatic interactions

Mixotrophic basis of Atlantic oligotrophic ecosystems

Meiobenthos of the Oxic/Anoxic Interface in the Southwestern Region of the Black Sea: Abundance and Taxonomic Composition

What controls primary production in the Arctic Ocean? Results from an intercomparison of five general circulation models with biogeochemistry

Lower bathyal and abyssal distribution of coral in the axial volcanic ridge of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 45°N

Altimeter accuracy requirements for detecting changes in sea level rise

Jelly-falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions

Processes setting the characteristics of sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones

The effect of the spatially inhomogeneous wind field on the wave spectra employing an ERS-2 SAR PRI image

RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 253, 26 Jul -25 Aug 2011. Arctic methane hydrates

Repeated slope failure linked to fluid migration: The Ana submarine landslide complex, Eivissa Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea

[Hydrological cycle] Surface humidity

Geochemical assessment of the palaeoecology, ontogeny, morphotypic variability and palaeoceanographic utility of “Dentoglobigerina” venezuelana

High prokaryotic biodiversity associated with gut contents of the holothurian Molpadia musculus from the Nazaré Canyon (NE Atlantic)

Seasonal sea level cycle in the Caribbean Sea

Simulation of L-Band Bistatic Returns From the Ocean Surface: A Facet Approach With Application to Ocean GNSS Reflectometry

Contrasting pyroclast density spectra from subaerial and submarine silicic eruptions in the Kermadec arc: implications for eruption processes and dredge sampling

RRS James Cook Cruise JC064, 10 Sep - 09 Oct 2011. RAPID moorings cruise report

Western Arctic Ocean freshwater storage increased by wind-driven spin-up of the Beaufort Gyre

Developing a vision for climate variability research in the Southern Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere system

Failure mechanisms of Ana Slide from geotechnical evidence, Eivissa Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea

The role of phytoplankton dynamics in the seasonal and interannual variability of carbon in the subpolar North Atlantic – a modeling study

Combined use of spot samples and continuous integrated sampling in a study of storm runoff from a lowland catchment in the south of England

Global patterns in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export and transfer to the deep ocean