Publications by research area

NOC staff publications in selected science research area

1985

IOS geophysical data held on magnetic tape - summary. Bathymetric, magnetic and gravity data collected during marine geology and geophysics cruises 1973 - 1984

CTD data from the Madeira Abyssal Plain: "Charles Darwin" Cruise 1/85

A long-range side-scan sonar survey of the Meriadzek Terrace, Bay of Biscay

An instrument to measure differential pore pressures in deep ocean sediments: Pop-Up-Pore Pressure Instrument (PUPPI)

A re-analysis of SWOP data.

CTD data from the northeast Atlantic Ocean 40 - 48N, 12 - 21W, collected on RRS "Discovery" Cruise 132 in February 1983

Wave-current interactions: a review of some problems

Geophysical interpretation of the structure and evolution of the Jan Mayen Ridge

Benthic boundary layer - IOS Observational and Modelling Programme: final report, January 1985

Great Meteor East (distal Madeira Abyssal Plain): geological studies of its suitability for disposal of heat-emitting radioactive wastes

A study of ERS-1 radar altimeter data processing requirements

MV Farnella Cruise 1/84 - 4/84 : 26 April - 15 August 1984. GLORIA studies of the Exclusive Economic Zone off the western United States between 30,30' and 48,30'N

RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 1/85 : 13 February - 4 March 1985. Physical oceanographic studies in the NE Atlantic Ocean

1984

NUTSATSEA: an on line data reduction programe linking a Chemlab continuous flow analyser to a Commodore PET microcomputer

Tidal and residual currents around a Norfolk Sandbank

The anomalous tides near Broad Sound

Slope Currents and “JEBAR”

Initial grain motion under oscillatory flow: a comparison of some threshold criteria

A note on processes influencing the mixed layer depth in the north western Aegean Sea

The use of in situ photography in studies of the deep-sea benthos at I.O.S.

Structure and evolution of the South West Approaches and Grand Banks continental margins. Report of work undertaken by IOS during the period April 1975 to April 1984

A manual of methods for the continuous flow determination of ammonia, nitrate-nitrite, phosphate and silicate in seawater

Benthic boundary layer - IOS Observational Programme: Discovery Gap measurements, March 1984

RRS Discovery Cruise 145, 25 February - 24 March 1984. The structure of the upper ocean at the end of winter in the region 40-47N, 13-16W

RRS Frederick Russell Cruise 13/84 : Dunstaffnage 24 July - Falmouth 7 August 1984. Current measurements, CTD stations and side-scan surveys in the Faroe-Shetland Channel and west of Scotland

1983

Sub-tidal motion on the Scottish continental shelf, August–September 1971

Seasonal-changes of the zonal pressure-gradient in the equatorial Atlantic during the FGGE year

Simple models for Atlantic diurnal tides

Status report on geochemical field results from Atlantic study sites

Benthic boundary layer - IOS Observational Programme. Interim report January 1983

Preliminary studies of the effects of oxidative and reductive leaches on the ion exchange behaviour of marine sediments

Long Seasoar CTD sections in the north east Atlantic Ocean collected during RRS "Discovery" Cruise 116

CTD data from the N.E. Atlantic, 31N-46N, July 1982. "Discovery" Cruise 130. Ocean disposal of high level radioactive waste

Preliminary studies of the total cation exchange capacity of sediments from two North Atlantic study sites

King's Trough Flank: geological and geophysical investigations of its suitability for high-level radioactive waste disposal

Structural studies of the northwest Iberian continental margin using long-range side-scan sonar

Primitive Foraminifera and Xenophyophorea in IOS epibenthic sledge samples from the northeast Atlantic

RRS Discovery Cruise 138, 17 June - 9 July 1983. Current studies and CTD stations in the Discovery Gap and in the Madeira Basin

RRS Challenger Cruise 12/83, 27 August - 12 September 1983. Mooring deployments and associated studies in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel

RRS Challenger Cruise 5/83, 11-31 March 1983. Current meter recoveries in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel

RRS Discovery Cruise 140. Leg 1, 5-22 August 1983. Leg 2, 24 August - 13 September 1983. Biological and physiological studies in the eastern North Atlantic (15N - 45N).

RRS Discovery Cruise 132, 27 January - 20 February 1983. Physical oceanography of the upper ocean in winter in the eastern Atlantic Ocean in the region 38-48N, 10-21W

1982

Tidal currents in the northwest African upwelling region

On the formation of sand banks of finite extent

On one mechanism forming linear sand banks

Animal burrows in deep-sea sediments

A new method for the analysis of extremes applicable to one years' data

RRS Frederick Russell Cruise 82/2, March 16 - March 29 1982. Current measurements and hydrography in the Rockall Trough and Faeroe-Shetland Channel

RRS Challenger Cruise 14/82, 24 September - 13 October 1982. Mooring and CTD work in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel

RRS Discovery Cruise 119, 7th April - 5th May 1981. Physical oceanography of a frontal region SW of the Azores