Previous Seminars

This page provides a list of the previous seminars held at the NOC.
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June 2020

Coupled Global Numerical Weather Prediction at the Met Office
Wednesday, 24 June, 2020 - 14:00
Dr. Tim Graham

May 2020

Decline of deep convection associated to an intense warming and salinification of intermediate waters in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
Wednesday, 20 May, 2020 - 14:00
Dr Felix Margirier

March 2020

A budget for mixing and transformation in a partially enclosed deep basin
Wednesday, 11 March, 2020 - 11:00
Carl Spingys

February 2020

From Oil Spills to Invasive Species: Lagrangian Modelling of Connectivity in the Arctic Ocean
Wednesday, 5 February, 2020 - 11:00
Stephen Kelly

January 2020

Spatio-temporal changes in upper ocean heat content estimates: an internationally-coordinated intercomparison
Wednesday, 29 January, 2020 - 11:00
Dr. Catia Domingues

November 2019

Atmospherically-paced and random parts of the oceanic variability and trends: an ensemble modelling study
Monday, 25 November, 2019 - 11:00
Dr. Thierry Penduff (CNRS, Grenoble)
Mesoscale eddy dissipation by a 'zoo' of submesoscale processes at a western boundary
Wednesday, 20 November, 2019 - 11:00
Dr. Gwyn Evans (NOC, Southampton)
Dynamics of phytoplankton in turbulence flows
Tuesday, 19 November, 2019 - 11:00
Matteo Borgnino (University of Turin)
044/11 Ray Beverton Room
Persian Gulf Water filaments inject oxygenated, saline water into the Bay of Bengal oxygen minimum zone
Wednesday, 13 November, 2019 - 13:30
Dr. Peter Sheehan (UEA, Norwich)
054/06 John Swallow Room
Similarities and differences in the coastal current systems west of Greenland and Spitsbergen
Wednesday, 6 November, 2019 - 11:00
Dr. Ilona Goszczko
Ray Beverton (044/11)

October 2019

Using the PRIMAVERA-HighResMIP multi-model ensemble to better understand the role of horizontal resolution.
Wednesday, 23 October, 2019 - 11:00
Pr. Pier Luigi Vidale (NCAS, Reading) and Dr. Malcolm Roberts (MetOffice, Exeter)
Feedbacks between ocean circulation and the carbon cycle: a present and future perspective
Wednesday, 16 October, 2019 - 11:00
Dr. Peter Brown

September 2019

Exploring the cause of recent climate trends in the southern ocean: cooling, freshening and sea-ice expansion.
Thursday, 5 September, 2019 - 14:00
John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

June 2019

FESOM2 - global ocean modeling on unstructured meshes. Recent developments
Friday, 28 June, 2019 - 11:00
Nikolay Koldunov (Alfred Wegener Institute)
Diagnosing the circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic using a thermohaline inverse method
Wednesday, 26 June, 2019 - 11:00
Neill Mackay (University of Exeter)
Models agree on 21st Century ocean carbon uptake - problem solved?
Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 - 11:00
Paul Halloran
Constraints on global oceanic emissions of nitrous-oxide from models and observations
Wednesday, 12 June, 2019 - 11:00
Parvadha Suntharalingam
Overturning circulation and the North Atlantic nutrient pool: non-steady state behaviour as a transient response to circulation changes
Wednesday, 5 June, 2019 - 11:00
Lidia Carracedo (NOC)

May 2019

Mesoscale signature of the North Atlantic Oscillation and its interaction with the ocean
Wednesday, 22 May, 2019 - 11:00
Alison Cobb
Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean
Wednesday, 8 May, 2019 - 11:00
Graeme MacGilchrist (Princeton University)

April 2019

New Insights on the Circulation in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic Based on three years of Sustained Glider Observations and Mooring Measurements
Wednesday, 24 April, 2019 - 11:00
Loic Houpert
Ocean circulation changes cause the largest freshening event for 120 years in the subpolar North Atlantic
Wednesday, 3 April, 2019 - 11:00
Penny Holliday

March 2019

‘Where did all this rain come from?’ The role of air-sea interactions
Wednesday, 27 March, 2019 - 11:00
Helen Dacre
Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: the Pacific inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and solving the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it
Friday, 8 March, 2019 - 11:00
Rebecca Woodgate

February 2019

Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamic Sea Level: Past and Future Uncertainty
Wednesday, 27 February, 2019 - 11:00
Laure Zanna (University of Oxford)
Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate
Wednesday, 13 February, 2019 - 11:00
David Ferreira

January 2019

On the role of cross-density mixing in the ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation
Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 - 11:00
Laura Cimoli (University of Oxford)
Trends and variability in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Wednesday, 23 January, 2019 - 11:00
Yvonne Firing (NOC)
Node room 074/02
A 21st century look at the global ocean conveyor belt
Thursday, 10 January, 2019 - 11:00
Susan Lozier (Duke University)

November 2018

The classic El Niños of 1982-83 and 1997-98 : the view from the (model) ocean
Wednesday, 28 November, 2018 - 11:00
David Webb (NOC)
Interactions between near-inertial waves and balanced currents at ocean fronts
Wednesday, 21 November, 2018 - 11:00
Leif Thomas (Stanford University)
Cooling and Freshening of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre as a consequence of the AMOC reduction in 2008-09
Wednesday, 14 November, 2018 - 11:00
Harry Bryden (University of Southampton)

October 2018

Ocean radiocarbon and other tracers in the 21st century
Wednesday, 31 October, 2018 - 11:00
Heather Graven (Imperial College)
GEOMETRIC: a geometrically informed, energy constrained mesoscale eddy parameterisation
Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 - 11:00
Julian Mak (University of Oxford)
Strait of Gibraltar through time
Wednesday, 10 October, 2018 - 11:00
Harry Bryden (University of Southampton)

September 2018

Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides
Wednesday, 26 September, 2018 - 11:00
Clément Vic
Rapid laundering of Antarctic Bottom Water in a deep boundary current
Wednesday, 19 September, 2018 - 11:00
Alberto Naveira Garabato

July 2018

The seasonal cycle of the South Indian Ocean subtropical gyre circulation as revealed by Argo and satellite data
Wednesday, 18 July, 2018 - 15:00
Kayleen McMonigal
166/27 (Lab G2)
New estimates of water cycle change from sea water salinity and its interplay with ocean warming
Wednesday, 11 July, 2018 - 15:00
Jan Zika
NOC/166/27 (Lab G2)
Overturning the circulation of the ocean
Wednesday, 4 July, 2018 - 15:00
Ali Mashayek
NOC/166/27 (Lab G2)

June 2018

Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies
Wednesday, 27 June, 2018 - 15:00
Pavel Berloff
Ocean gyres driven by buoyancy forcing
Wednesday, 13 June, 2018 - 15:00
Andy Hogg

May 2018

Turbulence and Abyssal Upwelling in Mid-Ocean Ridge Fracture Zones
Wednesday, 30 May, 2018 - 15:00
Louis Clément
Dynamic Processes and Links in the Arctic and Sub Arctic Oceans
Wednesday, 23 May, 2018 - 15:00
Laura Gillard (U of Alberta)
Wintertime Fjord-Shelf Exchange in Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Southeast Greenland
Wednesday, 9 May, 2018 - 15:00
Neil Fraser
Antarctic sea-ice control on glacial and modern deep-ocean circulation (and carbon storage)
Wednesday, 2 May, 2018 - 15:00
Alice Marzocchi

March 2018

The weakly stratified bottom boundary layer of the global ocean
Tuesday, 27 March, 2018 - 15:00
Donata Banyte
NOC/166/27 (Lab G2)

December 2017

Mesoscale surface ocean eddy characteristics at eddy-permitting and eddy-resolving resolution
Wednesday, 6 December, 2017 - 15:00
Sophia Ashby

November 2017

Skilful winter climate forecasts for the UK and Europe
Tuesday, 28 November, 2017 - 15:00
Pr Adam Scaife
Is the coefficient of eddy potential vorticity diffusion positive? part 1: Barotropic zonal flow
Wednesday, 15 November, 2017 - 15:00
Vladimir Ivchenko
Atmospherically-modulated chaotic variability in the global eddying ocean.
Monday, 13 November, 2017 - 15:00
Thierry Penduff
NOC/121/02 PC room
The importance of air-sea fluxes on the variability of Gulf Stream pathways from a Lagrangian perspective
Thursday, 9 November, 2017 - 15:00
Zoe Jacobs
NOC/166/21 (Lab G1)
Volume exchange across the shelf break: the role of the internal tide and an integrated understanding
Wednesday, 1 November, 2017 - 15:00
Carl Spingys

October 2017

New insight into deep ocean warming from tracer data and another decade of repeat hydrography
Tuesday, 17 October, 2017 - 15:00
Dr Sarah Purkey -- SCRIPPS

September 2017

Transfer functions between Biogeochemical-Argo and GO-SHIP to complement and expand observations of nutrient and CO2 dynamics in the open ocean using Argo-O2.
Monday, 25 September, 2017 - 15:00
Henry Bittig
Ocean Mixing by Breaking Internal Waves
Tuesday, 12 September, 2017 - 15:00
Sonya Legg (NOAA)

July 2017

New estimates of uncertainty in the marine surface temperature record
Wednesday, 5 July, 2017 - 15:00
Giulia Carella

June 2017

Variability of the Arctic freshwater export west of Greenland: a proxy from 67 years of hydrographic observations on the Labrador Shelf
Wednesday, 28 June, 2017 - 15:00
Cristian Florindo-Lopez
Deep Circulation in the Eastern Chile Basin
Thursday, 8 June, 2017 - 15:00
Lena Schulze - Florida State University
NOC Southampton - Conference room

May 2017

Particle flux on the continental shelf in the Amundsen Sea and Western Antarctic Peninsula
Wednesday, 10 May, 2017 - 15:00
Professor Hugh Ducklow (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/user/hducklow) Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ
The Southern Ocean in climate models
Wednesday, 3 May, 2017 - 15:00
Erik Behrens

March 2017

Large-scale forcing of the European Slope Current and associated inflows to the North Sea
Wednesday, 29 March, 2017 - 15:00
Robert Marsh
Deep ocean heat content observing strategy: Evaluating the past and preparing for the future
Wednesday, 22 March, 2017 - 15:00
Freya Garry
The North Atlantic within the global ocean: an analysis of full-depth temperature changes.
Thursday, 16 March, 2017 - 15:00
Damien Desbruyères
Overview of Marine Systems Modelling Group research
Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 - 15:00
Prof Adrian New

February 2017

The Impact of an Extreme UK Winter on the North Atlantic and Implications for Seasonal Forecasts
Wednesday, 15 February, 2017 - 15:00
Dr Jeremy Grist

January 2017

AMOC variability from days to decades
Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 - 15:00
Gerard McCarthy
El Niño Bust to Boom in 2014-16
Thursday, 12 January, 2017 - 15:00
Prof Michael J. McPhaden (NOAA/PMEL)

December 2016

An Empirical Model for Mode-1 Internal Tides Derived from Satellite Altimetry: Computing Accurate Tidal Predictions at Arbitrary Points over the World Oceans
Wednesday, 7 December, 2016 - 15:00
Brian Dushaw

November 2016

The upper ocean vertical structure in a changing climate
Wednesday, 9 November, 2016 - 00:30
Dr Raquel Somavilla (IEO, Spain)

May 2016

To be anounced
Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 - 15:00
Rhys Parfitt (Imperial College)

April 2016

The sea ice floe size distribution: modeling, interaction with ocean eddies, and influence on sea ice melting
Thursday, 28 April, 2016 - 15:00
Chris Horvat (Harvard University, Cambridge)

February 2016

A ‘New Arctic’ and increases in evaporation rates: A look at a new dataset to assess these changes
Wednesday, 10 February, 2016 - 11:00
Dr Linette Nicole McPartland
Conference room (level 4)
Eddy Compensation in Wind-Driven Subtropical Gyres
Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 - 15:00
Dr Edward Doddridge (Oxford)