I am an ocean modeller, interested in understanding the processes that
drive the ocean circulation. My recent work has investigated:
The surface mixed layer
Watermass transformation
Diagnosing and understanding eddy transports
Titles of some recent papers:
Nurser, A.J.G., 1996. A review of models and observations of the oceanic mixed layer.
SOC Internal Document No. 14.,
Nurser, A.J.G. and R. Marsh, 1998. Water mass transformation theory
and the meridional overturning streamfunction. Int. WOCE. Newsletter31,
36-38.
Nurser, A.J.G., R. Marsh and R.G. Williams, 1999. Diagnosing water
mass formation from air-sea fluxes and surface mixing. J. Phys. Oceanogr.29, 1468-1487.
Nurser, A.J.G. and Zhang, J. W., 2000. Eddy-induced mixed-layer shallowing and
mixed-layer/thermocline exchange. J. Geophys. Res.105(C9), 21,851-21,868
Nurser, A.J.G., P.D. Killworth and S.G. Alderson, 2000.
A new approach to the sigma-coordinate pressure gradient problem in a terrain-following bottom boundary layer model.
Int. WOCE. Newsletter39, 34-36
Marsh, R., A.P. Megann, A.L. New and A.J.G. Nurser, 2000.
Watermass transformation in the Southern Ocean of a global isopycnal coordinate GCM.
J. Phys. Oceanogr.30, 1013-1045
Large, W.G. and A.J.G.Nurser, 2001. Ocean surface water mass transformation.
In: Siedler, G., Church, J. and Gould, J. ed. Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean, San
Diego CA, Academic Press., 317-336. (International Geophysics Series No.77)
Lee, M.-M., A.J.G. Nurser and A.C. Coward, 2002. Spurious diapycnal mixing of the deep waters in an eddy-resolving global ocean model.
J. Phys. Oceanogr.32, 1522-1535
Bryden, H. L. and A. J. G Nurser, 2003. Effects of strait mixing on ocean circulation.
J. Phys. Oceanogr.33, 1870-1872.
Abstracts and pdf preprints of some recently submitted papers:
