Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2001

An examination of the 'continental shelf pump' in an open ocean general circulation model

Increased circumpolar deep water flow in the glacial South Atlantic: the cause of apparent North Atlantic deep water weakening

Altimetry research with Jason-1 at SOC

Hot springs in a cold ocean: evidence for abundant hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 Dec 2001)

Hydrothermal activity along the central Indian Ridge: ridges, hotspots and philately

Diet and community grazing copepods in an upwelled filament off the NW coast of Spain

Flank stability and processes off the western Canary Islands: a review from El Hierro and La Palma

Effects on ridge segmentation, magmatic plumbing and eruption style caused by weak hot-spot to ridge interaction: the Central Indian Ridge and Rodriguez hot-spot couplet (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 Dec 2001)

Deep-sea bottom current depositional systems with active sand transport on the north-eastern Atlantic margin

Analyzing altimeter artifacts: statistical properties of ocean waveforms

Hydrothermal geological materials from Lucky Strike field collected during TTR-10/leg 2, Azores, Mid Atlantic Ridge

Distributions of REE, Nd, Hf and Pb isotopes in the surfaces of Fe-Mn crusts from across the Pacific Ocean

Measurements of the sea ice thickness distribution and icebergs using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Autosub 2 in Antarctica

Numerical modelling of rift-related magmatism and melt chemistry at passive margins (abstract of poster presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 Dec 2001)

Drilling the Newfoundland margin in the Newfoundland-Iberia rift (abstract of paper presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 Dec 2001)

Improving understanding and prediction of climate variability and change in the Australian region

Can a state of the art atmospheric general circulation model reproduce recent NAO related variability at the air-sea interface?

Huge underwater lava lake found

Causes of long-term changes in Aegean Sea deep water

Offshore continuation of volcanic rift zones, El Hierro, Canary Islands

Patterns in polychaete abundance and diversity from the Madeira Abyssal Plain, northeast Atlantic

The relationship between drought and El Nino over Botswana

A study of the dynamic factors influencing the rainfall variability in the West African Sahel

Is there a connection between high transport of water in the Rockall Trough and ecological changs in the North Sea?

Environmental influences on regional deep-sea species diversity

RRS Discovery Cruise 248, 07 Jul-10 Aug 2000. A multidisciplinary study of the environment and ecology of deep-water coral ecosystems and associated seabed facies and features (The Darwin Mounds, Porcupine Bank and Porcupine Seabight)

Contamination of the coastal waters of Bermuda by organotins and the triazine herbicide Irgarol 1051

On the origin and pathway of the saline inflow to the Nordic Seas: insights from models

Sea surface height observations of the 34N 'waveguide' in the North Atlantic.

Circulation characteristics in three eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic

Mesoscale subduction at the Almeria-Oran front. Part 2: biophysical interactions.

On the radiated noise of the Autosub autonomous underwater vehicle

Use of the 3D radon transform to examine the properties of oceanic Rossby waves

RRS Discovery Cruise 253, 04 May-20 Jun 2001. Faeroes, Iceland, Scotland Hydrographic and Environmental Survey (FISHES)

Aspects of the circulation in the Rockall Trough

Mesoscale subduction at the Almeria-Oran front. Part 1: ageostrophic flow

A conceptual model for understanding rainfall variability in the West African Sahel on interannual and interdecadal timescale

Rossby waves detected in global ocean colour data

RRS James Clark Ross Cruise JR55, 21 Nov-14 Dec 2000. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Section 1b – Burdwood Bank to Elephant Island

2000

RRS "James Clark Ross", October 16, 1999 to December 14, 1999. ACCLAIM: Sea level measurements in the Drake Passage

VEINS: inverted echo sounders in the Denmark Strait as part of FS 'Poseidon' Cruise 263, August 3, 2000 - August 22, 2000

Concentrations of phthalate esters and identification of other additives in PVC children’s toys

Propagation characteristics of extratropical planetary waves observed in the ATSR global sea surface temperature record

Remote sensing of oceanic Rossby waves: New techniques and results

In situ studies on deep-sea demersal fishes using autonomous unmanned lander platforms

Interfacing the operational storm surge model to a new mesoscale atmospheric mode

Global Altimeter Processing Scheme. User manual: v1

Suspended sediment modelling in a shelf sea (North Sea)

Application of the SWAN shallow water wave model to some UK coastal sites

Desktop study of Tranches 19-22 (17th Round Seafloor Environmental Survey)