Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2007

A walk down the Cap de Creus canyon, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea: Recent processes inferred from morphology and sediment bedforms

IAPSO Standard Seawater: definition of the uncertainty in the calibration procedure, and stability of recent batches

Improved fluxes from operational observations: the VOSClim Project

Intra-test variation in the trace element composition of planktonic foraminifera: implications for biomineralization processes (abstract of paper presented at: 17th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference Cologne, Germany August 2007)

Experimental studies of rotating exchange flow

Controls on sediment geochemistry in the Crozet region

Geological controls on focused fluid flow associated with seafloor seeps in the Lower Congo Basin

Planktonic carbon budget in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic

Nitrate uptake at photic zone depths is not important for export in the subtropical ocean

Depth-related changes to density, diversity and structure of benthic megafaunal assemblages in the Fimbul ice shelf region, Weddell Sea, Antarctica

MV Franklin Cruise 0206, 03-23 Aug 2006. Habitat investigations within the SEA4 and SEA7 areas of the UK continental shelf

Iron profiles and speciation of the upper water column at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site: a model based sensitivity study

MV Ocean Endeavour cruise 13 Oct-06 Nov 2005. Seabed environmental survey of Angola Blocks 18 and 31

Report on the SNOMS Swire NOCS Ocean Monitoring System. Maintenance and underway sampling protocols and safety information for the MV Pacific Celebes system fitted June 2007

Autonomy and collision avoidance

Celtic Explorer Cruise 0716, 19-25 Jun 2007. Time-series observations at the PAP Observatory

The phosphoric acid leak from the wreck of the MV Ece in the English Channel in 2006: Assessment with a ship of opportunity, an operational ecosystem model and historical data

Eliciting expert judgement for the probability of AUV loss in contrasting operational environments

ICES report on ocean climate 2006

Autosub operations in the Arctic and the Antarctic

Characterizing and following eddies in Drake Passage

Emergent features due to grid-cell biology: synchronisation in biophysical models

Landslide and gravity flow features and processes of the Nazare and Setubal Canyons, west Iberian margin

SERPENT Cruise Reports July 2002 to December 2006

Megabenthic ecology of the deep Faroe–Shetland channel: a photographic study

Observational program tracks Arctic Ocean transition to a warmer state

Insurance for autonomous underwater vehicles

Evaluation of the Aanderaa Oxygen Optode in continuous use in the NOC Portsmouth Bilbao FerryBox system 2005, 2006, with an assessment of the likely errors in the estimation of oxygen concentration anomalies

Towards measuring the meridional overturning circulation from space

MV Franklin Cruise 0406, 14-23 Sep 2006. Habitat investigations on the West of Shetland continental slope

RV Ronald H. Brown Cruise RB0602 and RRS Discovery Cruise D304, Rapid Mooring Cruise Report March and May 2006

Interim report on the seabed environmental survey of Angola Blocks 18 and 31 (MV Ocean Endeavour cruise 2005)

SNOMS Swire NOCS Ocean Monitoring System: Diary of the system development and installation on the MV Pacific Celebes in 2006 and 2007

Towards a risk management process for automous underwater vehicles

North Atlantic contourite sand channels.

Observed flow compensation associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic

Undersea gliders

The use of computational fluid dynamics to determine the dynamic stability of an autonomous underwater vehicle

Autonomous underwater vehicle operations: needs of new users

A model analysis of the behavior of the Mediterranean Water in the North Atlantic

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 123C3-4, 19 Jul - 15 Sep 2000. Atlantic Margin Environmental Surveys and North Sea Environmental Surveys

Submarine spreading: dynamics and development

Realizing Envisat's potential for rain cloud studies

Effects of annual changes in primary productivity and ocean indices on the breeding performance of tropical roseate terns in the western Indian Ocean

The use of computational fluid dynamics to assess the hull resistance of concept autonomous underwater vehicles

Sex with the lights on? A review of bioluminescent sexual dimorphism in the sea (review article)

Fractal statistics of the Storegga Slide

The Crozet natural iron bloom and export experiment (CROZEX)

A concept design for an ultra-long-range survey class AUV

The long-term legacy of fossil fuels