Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

2000

Vertical structure of tidal currents over the Camarinal Sill at the Strait of Gibralter

Hydraulic control of three-layer exchange flows: application to the Bab al Mandab

Phytoplankton, nutrients and hydrography in the frontal zone between the Southwest Indian Subtropical gyre and the Southern Ocean

Wind-driven surface waves on Titan

Integrated use of altimeter and in situ data for understanding the water exchanges between the Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas

Non-transform offsets along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Azores (38N-34N): ultramafic exposures and hosting of hydrothermal vents

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

A study of the balance of horizontal momentum in a vertical shearing current

Last glacial jetting of cold waters through the subtropical convergence zone in the southwest Pacific off eastern New Zealand, and some geological implications

A new approach to the sigma-coordinate pressure gradient problem in a terrain-following bottom boundary layer model

The oxygen isotope composition of water masses in the northern North Atlantic

Three-dimensional spatial coordinates of individual plankton determined using underwater hologrammetry

Accurate radiometric measurement of the atmospheric longwave flux at the sea surface

Coastal oceanography applications of digital image data from marine radar

The autonomous vehicle validation experiment

New investigations into the effect of waves on altimeter wind speed retrieval

Sedimentary processes in the Selvage sediment-wave field, NE Atlantic: new insights into the formation of sediment waves by turbidity currents

Book review: Marine geophysics, by E.J.W. Jones, Chichester, John Wiley, 1999, 466pp.

Distribution and biomass of two squid species off southern New Zealand: Nototodarus sloanii and Moroteuthis ingens

Cabbeling due to isopycnal mixing in isopycnic coordinate models

Eddy-induced mixed layer shallowing and mixed layer/thermocline exchange

Changes in oceanic precipitation during the 1997-98 El Nino

Enhanced productivity on the Iberian margin during glacial/interglacial transitions revealed by barium and diatoms

The role of eddies in the isopycnic transfer of nutrients and their impact on biological production

Climatological coupling of the thermohaline decadal changes in Central Water of the eastern North Atlantic

Controls on magmatic degassing along the Reykjanes Ridge with implications for the helium paradox

Accreditation for oceanographers?

Copepods in a frontal region of the Alboran Sea (January 1997)

Axial magma reservoirs located by variation in lava chemistry along Iceland's mid-ocean ridge

Duration of S1, the most recent sapropel in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, as indicated by accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and geochemical evidence

Biological pump and vertical mixing in the Southern Ocean: their impact on atmospheric CO2

The effect of successive correction on variability estimates for climatological datasets

Changes in the deep and bottom waters of the Scotia Sea 1995-1999

Estimation of the transports through the Strait of Gibraltar

Circulation and volume flux of the North Atlantic using synoptic hydrographic data in a Bernoulli inverse

A large testate protist, Gromia sphaerica sp.nov. (Order Filosea), from the bathyal Arabian Sea

Accretionary processes in the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 27 degrees N - 30 degrees N from TOBI side-scan sonar images

Continental margin sedimentation, with special reference to the north-east Atlantic margin

Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study (ACES)

Deep structure of the ocean-continent transition in the southern Iberia Abyssal Plain from seismic refraction profiles: the IAM-9 transect at 40,20N

The effects on ocean models of relaxation toward observations at the surface

Building Version 2.0 of WOCE global data on CD-ROM: a summary of the Data Products Committee meeting in April 2000

An evaluation of some recent batches of IAPSO standard seawater

Towards a unified theoretical model of ocean backscatter for wind speed retrieval from SAR, scatterometer and altimeter

Evidence for shallow zonal jets in the South Equatorial Current region of the southwest Pacific

Geotechnical investigation of the "Titanic" wreck site

Altimeter assimilation in the OCCAM global model Part I: a twin experiment

Errors in estimates of high wind speeds by altimeters

Developments in ocean climate modelling