Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2003

Feeding ecology of deep-sea seastars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea): a fatty-acid biomarker approach

Abrupt climate change: evidence, mechanicsms and implications - Introduction

On estimates for the vertical nitrate flux due to eddy pumping

The seasonal evolution of the atmospheric circulation over West Africa and Equatorial Africa

A dynamic concept for eastern Mediterranean circulation and oxygenation during sapropel formation

A global study of diurnal warming using satellite-derived sea surface temperature

Post-haemorrhagic anaemia in sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax caused by blood feeding of Ceratothoa oestroides (Isopoda: Cymothoidae)

Assimilating satellite ocean-colour observations into oceanic ecosystem models

Effect of appendicularians and copepods on bacterioplankton composition and growth in the English Channel

Measuring ocean wave period with satellite altimeters: a simple empirical model

Biogeochemical evidence of vigorous mixing in the abyssal ocean

The future of in situ climate observations for the global ocean

Fault and magmatic interaction within Iceland's western rift over the last 9kyr

A new formula for determining the atmospheric longwave flux at the ocean surface at mid-high latitudes

Temporal and spatial changes in sedimentation along the margins of the North Atlantic (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Changes in the heat and freshwater forcing of the eastern Mediterranean and their influence on deep water formation

Deposition of osmium and other platinum-group elements beneath the ultramafic-hosted rainbow hydrothermal plume

The evolution of early foraminifera

Response of an eddy-permitting ocean model to the assimilation of sparse in situ data

Along or across front ocean survey strategy? The estimation of quasi-geostrophic vertical velocities and temperature fluxes

Inverse analysis adjustment of the SOC air-sea flux climatology using ocean heat transport constraints

On the efficiency of statistical assimilation techniques in the presence of model and data error

The final WOCE conference - the end of one era and the start of another

Giant carbonate mud mounds in the southern Rockall Trough

High rate of uptake of organic nitrogen compounds by Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria as a key to dominance in oligotrophic oceanic waters

Rates and magnitudes of sea-level change: lessons from the past for the future (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Autonomous underwater vehicles: future platforms for fisheries acoustics

Discovery of abundant hydrothermal venting on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean

Effects of strait mixing on ocean stratification

Quantifying the effects of airflow distortion on anemometer wind speed measurements from merchant ships

Report on the technical issues of using GNU EPrints Software for the development of an institutional e-Print repository at the University of Southampton

Weathering the storm: developments in the acoustic sensing of wind and rain

Dressed up for the deep: a cloak of agglutinated protozoans adorns an irregular urchin

Long extratropical planetary wave propagation in the presence of slowly varying mean flow and bottom topography. Part I: the local problem

RRS Discovery Cruise 249, 19 Aug-10 Sep 2000. History of sedimentation in the Gulf of Cadiz: investigations with the SOC giant piston corer

FUJI Dome: A large detachment fault near 64°E on the very slow-spreading southwest Indian Ridge

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 141, 01 Jun-11 Jul 2002. Satellite Calibration and Interior Physics of the Indian Ocean: SCIPIO

Along or across front survey strategy? An operational example at an unstable front.

SOFT Wave forecasting report - v.1.0

A plankton guide to ocean physics: Colouring in the currents round South Africa and Madagascar

Circulation and fluxes in the Nordic Seas and exchanges with the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 8-12 Dec 2003)

Rain-flagging of the Envisat altimeter

Ultraplankton distribution in surface waters of the Mozambique Channel – flow cytometry and satellite imagery

Rapid climate change: scientific challenges and the new NERC programme

RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 81, 18 Dec 2002-02 Jan 2003. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b – Elephant Island to Burdwood Bank

Multiple satellite observations of oceanic planetary waves: techniques and findings

Flow at intermediate depths around Madagascar based on ALACE float trajectories

Numerical modelling of mud volcanoes and their flows using constraints from the Gulf of Cadiz

SOFT feature-tracking software handbook

Comparison between XBT data and TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimetry in the Ligurian-Tyrrhenian area