Ocean Modelling and Forecasting
(256/29),National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
European Way
Southampton
SO14 3ZH. UK.
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 6407,
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 6400,
Email: das at noc.soton.ac.uk
My current research interests and some selected pulications are listed below. Further details of some topics can be found using the menu on the left. A complete list of publications is given here, and a brief C.V. can be found here
Flow through straits
SMEED, D.A. (2004). Exchange through the Bab el Mandab. Deep-Sea Res. II. 51 (4-5), 455-474.
STANSFIELD, K., G.P. GASPARINI, & D.A. SMEED (2003). High-resolution observations of the path of the overflow from the Strait of Sicily. Deep-Sea Res. I., 50 (9), 1129-1149.
LANE-SERFF, G.F., D.A. SMEED & C.R. POSTLETHWAITE (2000). Multi-layer hydraulic exchange flows. J. Fluid Mech., 416 , 269-296.
SMEED D.A., (2000) Hydraulic control in 3-layer exchange flows: application to the Bab al Mandab. J. Phys. Oceangr., 30 , 2574-2588.
The Red Sea
SIDDALL, M., D.A. SMEED, C. HEMLEBEN, E.J. ROHLING, I. SCHMELZER, & W.R. PELTIER (2004). Understanding the Red Sea response to sea-level. Earth Plan. Sci. Let. 225 421Ð 434
SIDDALL M., E.J. ROHLING, A. ALMOGI-LABIN, CH. HEMLEBEN, D. MEISCHNER, I. SCHMELZER, & D.A., SMEED (2003). Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle. Nature 423 , 583-588.
Mixing in the ocean
SMEED, D.A., A.L. NEW, S.G. ALDERSON, & K.L. STANSFIELD. Internal tide radiation from the Mascarene Plateau and the Rodriguez Ridge. In preparation.
NEW, A.L., K.L. STANSFIELD, D. SMYTHE-WRIGHT, D. A. SMEED, A. J. EVANS & S. G. ALDERSON. Physical and Biochemical Aspects of the Flow Across the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean. Phil Trans. Roy. Soc. 63, 151-168.
Upper ocean physics and interactions with biogeochemical processes
SMEED, D.A., S.G. ALDERSON, G.P. GASPARINI, J.T. ALLEN & M. RIBERA D'ALCALA. The impact of circulation upon biological distributions in the Strait of Sicily. In preparation.
POPOVA, E.E., M.A. SROKOSZ, & D. A. SMEED, (2002) The Real-time forecasting of biological and physical dynamics at the Iceland Faeroes Front in June 2001. Geophys. Res. Let. 29 14.1-14.4
ALLEN, J.T., D. A. SMEED, J. TINTORE, & S. RUIZ, (2001) Mesoscale subduction at the Almeria-Oran front. Part I: Ageostrophic flow. J. Mar. Sys. 30 263-285.