Publications etc

Bacon, S., W. J. Gould and Y. Jia, 2003: Open-ocean convection in the Irminger Basin. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (5) 10.1029/2002GL01627.

Bacon, S., 2002: The dense overflows from the Nordic Seas into the deep North Atlantic. ICES Mar. Sci. Sym. 215 148-155.

Bacon, S., G. Reverdin, I. G. Rigor and H. M. Snaith, 2002: A freshwater jet on the East Greenland Shelf. J. Geophys. Res. 107 (C7) 10.1029/2001JC000935.

Cuny, J., P. B. Rhines, P. P. Niiler and S. Bacon, 2002: Labrador Sea boundary currents and the fate of the Irminger Sea water. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 32 (2) 627-647.

Bacon, S., L. R. Centurioni, and W. J. Gould, 2001: The evaluation of salinity measurements from PALACE floats. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 18 (7) 1258-1266.

Bacon, S., H. M. Snaith & M. J. Yelland, 2000: An evaluation of some recent batches of IAPSO standard seawater. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 17 (6) 854-861.

Tsimplis, M. N., S. Bacon & H. L. Bryden, 1998: The circulation of the subtropical South Pacific derived from hydrographic data. J. Geophys. Res., 103 (C10) 21443-21468.

Bacon, S., 1998: Decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic Seas to the Deep Atlantic Ocean. Nature, 394 871-874.

Bacon, S., 1997: Circulation and fluxes in the North Atlantic between Greenland and Ireland. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27 (7) 1420-1435.

Bacon, S. & N. P. Fofonoff, 1996: Oceanic heat flux calculation. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 13 (6) 1327-1329.

Bacon, S., 1994: Skill in an inversion solution: CONVEX-91 hydrographic results compared with ADCP measurements. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech. 11 (6) 1569-1591.

Bacon, S. & D. J. T. Carter, 1993: A connection between mean wave height and atmospheric pressure gradient in the North Atlantic. Int. J. Climat. 13 423-436.

Bacon, S. & D. J. T. Carter, 1991: Wave climate changes in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Int. J. Climat. 11 545-558.

Successful Proposals:

Bacon, S., S. Laxon, A. Coward, D. Stevens, 2004: Arctic Regulation of the Thermohaline Circulation (ARTHER). Proposal to NERC Directed Research Programme Rapid Climate Change, Second Scientific Announcement of Opportunity, £305K.

Martin, A., D. Smeed, R. Babb, M. Mowlem, S. Bacon, 2004: Development of SOC Turbulence and Environmental Autonomous Profiler (STEAP). Proposal to SOC Technology Innovation Fund, £94.8K.

Bacon, S., D. A. V. Stow, E. J. Rohling and N. Kenyon, 2002: Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge - Interannual to Millennial Thermohaline Circulation Variability. Proposal to NERC Directed Research Programme Rapid Climate Change, First Scientific Announcement of Opportunity, £622K plus 5 week mooring deployment/survey cruise plus 10 day mooring recovery cruise plus 3 tied PhD studentships.

Bacon, S., S. Cunningham and E. J. Rohling, 2002: Antarctic Climate - Oceanic Fluxes and Variability. Proposal to SOC Graduate School for PhD project.

Bacon, S., K. Birch, R. Pascal and I. Waddington, 2000: PIMMs Exploitation - Managing and Promoting Transfer to Industry. Proposal to SOC Technology Innovation Fund, £16K.

Bacon, S., W. J. Gould, N. P. Holliday, N. Wells and C. Clayson, 1999: Initial Support for an SOC Input to Argo (the global float programme). Proposal to SOC Developments and Initiatives Fund, £39K.

Bacon, S., R. Pascal, J. Smithers and I. Waddington, 1999: PIMMs - A New Type of Expendable Surface Float for Ice Work. Proposal to SOC Technology Innovation Fund, £52K.

Bacon, S., D. Smeed and S. Josey, 1998: RedRUM - Red Sea Routine Underway Measurements. Outline SOC shiptime proposal. (Approved but not executed due to war).

Bacon, S., 1998: Profiling ALACE Floats - Communication and Evaluation. Proposal to SOC Technology Innovation Fund, £5K.

Bacon, S. and P. Wadhams, 1998: Sea Ice and Oceanic Vertical Circulation. Proposal to NERC Thematic Programme ARCICE, £311K plus 6 week Arctic cruise plus PhD studentship shared with SOC Graduate School.

Bacon, S., 1997: Defining the Performance Envelope of the Acoustic Current Correlation Profiler (ACCP). Proposal to SOC Technology Innovation Fund, £20K.

Bacon, S. and H. L. Bryden, 1995: Two Transatlantic Hydrographic Sections across the Boundaries of the Subpolar Gyre (FOUREX). Proposal for ship time to NERC Marine Science and Technology Board.

Reports:

Bacon, S. and S. A. Cunningham (editors), 2005: Drake Passage Summary Report: Cruises on RRS James Clark Ross, 1993 - 2000. Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, No. 44, 151 pp.

Bacon, S., 2003: RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 81, 18 Dec 2002 - 2 Jan 2003. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b - Elephant Island to Burdwood Bank. Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, No. 43, 86 pp.

Bacon, S., 2002: RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 67, 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2001. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b - Burdwood Bank to Elephant Island. Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, No. 38, 118 pp.

Bacon, S. and M. J. Yelland, 2000: RRS James Clark Ross Cruise 44, 23 Jul - 31 Aug 1999. Circulation And Thermocline Structure - Mixing, Ice And Ocean Weather: CATS-MIAOW. Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, No. 33, 140 pp.

Bacon, S. and E. C. Kent, 1999: Evaluation of acoustic correlation current profiler on Discovery cruise 223. SOC Internal Document, No. 46, 48 pp.

Bacon, S., L. Centurioni and W. J. Gould, 1998: Evaluation of profiling ALACE float performance. SOC Internal Document, No. 39, 72 pp.

Holliday, N. P. and S. Bacon, 1998: Example current regimes in the North Atlantic. SOC Research and Consultancy Report, No. 22, 28 pp.

Bacon, S., 1998: RRS Discovery Cruise 230, 07 Aug - 17 Sep 1997. Two hydrographic sections across the boundaries of the sub-polar gyre: FOUREX. SOC Cruise Report, No. 16, 104 pp.

Bacon, S., 1996: Circulation and fluxes in the Sub-Polar North Atlantic. Ph. D. Thesis, Southampton University Department of Oceanography, 153 pp.

Joyce, T., S. Bacon, A. Romanov, P. Kalashnikov, M. Stalcup & V. Zaburdaev, 1992: Results of an Oxygen / Salinity comparison cruise on the R/V Vernadsky. WHP Office Report WHPO 92-3; WOCE Report 93/92.

Carter, D. J. T., P. G. Challenor, S. Bacon & M. A. Srokosz, 1990: Estimation of Individual Waves. pp 67-101 in "Metocean Parameters - Wave Parameters", Dept. of Energy Offshore Technology Report OTH 89 300, HMSO.

Bacon, S. & D. J. T. Carter, 1989: Waves recorded at Seven Stones Light Vessel 1962-1986. IOS DL Report , No. 268, 94pp.

Bacon, S., 1989: Waves recorded at Channel Light Vessel 1979-1985. IOS DL Report , No. 263, 65pp.

Bacon, S., 1989: Waves recorded at Dowsing Light Vessel 1970-1985. IOS DL Report , No. 262, 60pp.

Bacon, S. & D. J. T. Carter, 1988: Waves and wave spectra recorded at two sites off Holderness 1986- 1987. IOS DL Report , No. 260, 88pp.

Bacon, S., 1987: Waves recorded west of the Scilly Isles 1979-1986. IOS DL Report , No. 246, 64pp.

Abstracts, Book Reviews & Non-refereed Publications:

Bacon, S., N. Kenyon, E. Rohling and D. Stow, 2004: Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge: interannual to millennial thermohaline circulation variability. In, NERC Rapid Climate Change Directed Research Programme Annual Science Meeting 2004: abstracts; 6-8 September 2004, University of Nottingham, p. 16.

Kenyon, N. H., A. Akhmetzhanov, S. Hunter, A. Kuipers, E. Rohling, S. Bacon and D. A. V. Stow, 2004: Search for a high resolution Holocene record on the Eirik Drift, Southern Greenland. North Atlantic and Labrador Sea Margin Architecture and Sedimentary Processes. International Conference and TTR-13 post-cruise meeting. 29-31 January 2004. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark (abstract).

Williams, A., S. Bacon and S. Cunningham, 2004: Observed variability in the water mass properties of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current across Drake Passage (1926-2003). p. 379 in, Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung 2004/4, SCAR Open Science Conference "Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Global System", 26-28 July 2004, Bremen, Germany (abstract).

Bacon, S., E. Rohling and D. Stow, 2003: Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge: interannual to millennial thermohaline circulation variability. In, NERC Rapid Climate Change Directed Research Programme "Kick-off" Meeting, University of Warwick, 21-23 January 2003, programme and abstracts, abstract NER/T/S/2002/453.

Bacon, S. and E. Hawker, 2003: Circulation and Fluxes in the Nordic Seas and Exchanges with the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. Eos Trans. AGU, 84 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS21C-1144. Aksenov, Y., S. Bacon and A. C. Coward, 2003: Fram Strait fluxes and variability: a model study. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 5 11691.

Hawker, E. and S. Bacon, 2002: Fluxes and exchanges of the Nordic Seas. Challenger Centenary Conference, Marine Science 2002, 9-13 September 2002, Plymouth, U. K. (abstract) p. 38.

Bacon, S., 2002: Review of Ocean Circulation and Climate: Modelling and Observing the Global Ocean (eds. G. Siedler, J. Church and W. J. Gould), 2001, Academic Press. Ocean Challenge 11 (2) 32-33.

Bacon, S. and R. W. Pascal, 2002: PIMMs: a new type of ice-capable drifter. Oceanology International 2002 Conference Programme, p. 66 (abstract).

Bacon, S., G. Reverdin, I. G. Rigor and H. M. Snaith, 2002: A freshwater jet on the East Greenland Shelf. Eos. Trans. AGU, 83 (4) Ocean Sciences Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS11H-04.

Bacon, S. and E. Hawker, 2001: A view of the East Greenland Current. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 3 3610.

Bacon, S., 2000: The dense overflows from the Nordic Seas into the deep North Atlantic. 100 Years of Science under ICES (abstract), 13.

Centurioni, L., S. Bacon and W. J. Gould, 1999: Circulation and conditions in the Irminger Sea from PALACE floats. The WOCE North Atlantic Workshop (abstract, unpaginated).

Bacon, S., L. Centurioni and W. J. Gould, 1999: Profiling ALACE float salinity measurements. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 34, 28-29.

Bacon, S., H. Snaith and M. Yelland, 1998: An example of ageing in IAPSO standard seawater. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 33, 25-26.

McCartney, M. S., K. A. Donohue, R. G. Curry, C. Mauritzen and S. Bacon, 1998: Did the Denmark Strait Overflow transport intensify in 1996-1997? International WOCE Newsletter, No. 31, 3-7.

Gould, W. J., S. Bacon and S. A. Josey, 1998: Winter conditions in the Irminger Sea from PALACE floats. The 1998 Conference of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment: Ocean Circulation and Climate (abstract), 61.

Bacon, S., 1998: Decadal Variability in the Outflow from the Nordic Seas to the Deep Atlantic Ocean, and Polar Atmospheric Control. The 1998 Conference of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment: Ocean Circulation and Climate (abstract), 189.

Bacon, S., 1998: A first look at 40-year changes between IGY Section 4 and WOCE A25. The 1998 Conference of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment: Ocean Circulation and Climate (abstract), 188.

Bacon, S., 1998: Evidence for decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic Seas. Eos, Transactions, AGU 79 (1) 46 (abstract) (suppl.).

Bacon, S., 1997: Decadal variability of the North Atlantic Overflows. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 26, 29-30.

Tsimplis, M. N., S. Bacon and H. L. Bryden, 1996: Heat fluxes of the South Pacific estimated through inverse models. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 24, 10-12.

Bacon, S., 1996: Arctic inferences from North Atlantic Sub-Polar measurements. The Oceanography Society 1996 (abstract), 57.

Beal, L. M., M. J. Griffiths, H. L. Bryden and S. Bacon, 1996: The lateral structure of the Agulhas Current. U. K. Oceanography '96 (abstract), 5.

Tsimplis, M. N., H. L. Bryden and S. Bacon, 1996: An inverse model of the South Pacific Ocean. U. K. Oceanography '96 (abstract), 42.

Tsimplis, M. N., S. Bacon and H. L. Bryden, 1996: Mass, heat and salt fluxes in the South Pacific Ocean estimated through an inverse method. Annales Geophysicae (abstract), Supplement II to Vol. 14, C408.

Bacon, S., 1995: NE Atlantic circulation and fluxes from CONVEX 1991. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 21, 17-19.

Bacon, S., 1995: The U. K. Control Volume Experiment 1991 (CONVEX). Sigma , No. 18, 6-7.

Banks, H., J. Bullister, S. Bacon & H. Bryden, 1995: The deep western boundary current at 17°S in the Pacific Ocean. International WOCE Newsletter, No. 19, 3-5.

Bacon, S., 1995: Circulation and fluxes in the North Atlantic between Greenland and Ireland, derived from CONVEX-91 data and others. (Abstract). International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans, XXI General Assembly, Abstracts, 10.

Popular Publications:

Bacon, S., 1999: Waves. pp. 104-114 in, Heavy Weather Sailing by P. Bruce, 5th edition. London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 296 pp.

Bacon, S., 1991: Wind Waves. pp.332-351 in, Heavy Weather Sailing by K. Adlard Coles, 4th edition (revised Peter Bruce). London: Adlard Coles Nautical.

Bacon, S., 1990: Waves measured at Dowsing Light Vessel. In, Practical Boat Owner, Sep. 1990.

Bacon, S., 1989: Waves measured at Channel Light Vessel. In, Practical Boat Owner, Nov. 1989.