Selected recent papers

2012

Sherwin, T.J., Read, J.F., Holliday, N.P., Johnson, C., 2012. The impact of changes in the North Atlantic Gyre distribution on water mass characteristics in the Rockall Trough. ICES Journal of Marine Science; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr185.

Ullgren, J.E., White, M., 2012. Observations of mesoscale variability in the Rockall Trough. Deep Sea Research I, 64, 1-8, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2012.01.015.

McGrath, T., Nolan, G., McGovern, E., 2012. Chemical characteristics of water masses in the Rockall Trough. Deep Sea Research I, 61, 57-73, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.11.007

2011

Kirkham, A.R., Jardillier, L.E., Holland, R., Zubkov, M.V., Scanlan, D.J., 2011, Analysis of photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure along an extended Ellett Line transect in the northern North Atlantic reveals a dominance of novel prymnesiophyte and prasinophyte phylotypes. Deep Sea Reseach I, 58, 7, 733-744., doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.05.004.

Mohamed, K.N., Steigenberger, S., Nielsdottir, M.C., Gledhill, M., Achterberg, E.P., 2011, Dissolved iron(III) speciation in the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean, Deep Sea Research I, 58, 11, 1049-1059, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.08.011.

2010

Sherwin, T.J., 2010, Observations of the velocity profile of a fast deep oceanic density current constrained in a gully, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, C03013, doi:10.1029/2009JC005557.

Johnson, C., Sherwin, T., Smythe-Wright, D., Shimmield, T., Turrell, W., 2010, Wyville Thomson Ridge Overflow Water: Spatial and temporal distribution in the Rockall Trough, Deep Sea Research Part I, 57, 10, 1153-1162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2010.07.006.

Stashchuk, N., Vlasenko, V., Sherwin, T.J., 2010, Insights into the structure of the Wyville Thomson Ridge overflow current from a fine-scale numerical model. Deep Sea Research Part I, 57, 10, 1192-1205, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2010.06.006.

2009

Nielsdottir, M.C., Moore, C.M., Sanders, R., Hinz, D.J., Achterberg, E.P., 2009, Iron limitation of the postbloom phytoplankton communities in the Iceland Basin. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB3001, doi:10.1029/2008GB003410.

Hughes, S.L., Holliday, N.P., Colbourne, E., Ozhigin, V., Valdimarsson, H., Osterhus, S., Wiltshire, K., 2009, Comparison of in situ time-series of temperature with gridded sea surface temperature datasets in the North Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1467-1479.

2008

Brambilla, E., Talley, L.D., 2008, Subpolar mode water in the northeastern Atlantic: 1. Averaged properties and mean circulation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C04025, doi:10.1029/2006JC004062.

Brambilla, E., Talley, L.D., Robbins, P., 2008, Subpolar mode water in the northeastern Atlantic: 2. Origin and transformation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C04026, doi:10.1029/2006JC004063.

Sherwin, T.J., Griffiths, C. R., Inall, M.E., Turrell, W.R., 2008. Quanitifying the overflow across the Wyville Thomson Ridge into the Rockall Trough. Deep-Sea Research I, 55, p396-404.

Holliday, N.P., S. L. Hughes, S. Bacon, A. Beszczynska-Moeller, B. Hansen, A. Lavin, H. Loeng, K. A. Mork, S. Osterhus, T. Sherwin, W. Walczowski, 2008. Reversal of the 1960s - 1990s Freshening Trend in the northeast North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L03614, DOI:10.1029/2007GL032675

2007

Hughes, S. L., and Holliday, N. P. (Eds). 2007. ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2006. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 289. 55 pp.

Yashayaev, I., van Aken, H.M., Holliday, N.P., Bersch, M., 2007. Transformation of the Labrador Sea Water in the subpolar North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22605, doi:10.1029/2007GL031812

Yashayaev, I., Holliday, N.P., Bersch, M., van Aken, H.M., 2007, "The history of Labrador Sea Water, from production to spreading, transformation and loss", story of Labrador Sea Water, from production to spreading, transformation and loss", Chapter 24 in: "Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes: Defining the role of the Northern Seas in Climate" (eds. R. Dickson, J. Meincke, P. Rhines), in press, Springer-Verlag.

Polyakov, I., Timokhov, L., Dmitrenko, L., Ivanov, V., Simmons, H., Beszczynska-Moller, A., Dickson, R., Fahrbach, E., Fortier, L., Gascard, J-C., Holemann, J., Holliday, N.P., Hansen, E., Mauritzen, C., Piechura, J., Pickart, R., Schauer, U., Steele, M., Walczowski, W., 2007, Observational program tracks Arctic Ocean transition to warmer state, EOS, Transactions, 88 (40), 398-399

Mohn, C. and White, M., 2007, Remote sensing and modelling of biophysical distribution patterns at Porcupine and Rockall Bank, Northeast Atlantic. Continental Shelf Research, 27, 1875-1892, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.03.006

Sundby, S. and Drinkwater, K., 2007, On the mechanisms behind salinity signals of the northern North Atlantic, Progress in Oceanography, 73(2), 190-202, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2007.02.2002

2006

Due, L.; van Aken, H. M.; Boldreel, L. O.; Kuijpers, A., 2006, Seismic and oceanographic evidence of present-day bottom-water dynamics in the Lousy Bank-Hatton Bank area, NE Atlantic, Deep Sea Research I, 53(11) 1729-1741.

Holliday, N.P., Yelland, M.J., Pascal, R., Swail, V.,Taylor, P.K., Griffiths, C., and Kent, E.C, 2006, Were extreme waves in the Rockall Trough the largest ever recorded? Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L05613, doi:10.1029/2005GL025238.

Lankhorst, M.; Zenk, W., 2006, Lagrangian Observations of the Middepth and Deep Velocity Fields of the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 36(1), 43-63.

2005

Marsh, R., Josey, S.A., Nurser, A.J.G., de Cuevas, B.A., Coward, A.C., 2005. Water mass transformation in the North Atlantic over 1985-2002 simulated in an eddy-permitting model. Ocean Science 1, 127-144. www.ocean-science.net/os/1/127, SRef-ID: 1812-0792/os/2005-1-127.

Hatun, H., Sando, A.B., Drange, H., Hansen, B., Valdimarsson, H., 2005, Influence of the Atlantic subpolar gyre on the thermohaline circulation. Science, 309. 1841-1844.

Sherwin, T.J. ; Turrell, W.R. 2005. Mixing and advection of a cold water cascade over the Wyville Thomson Ridge. Deep-Sea Research I ; 52(8) ; 1392-1413.

Stashchuk, N. ; Vlasenko, V. 2005. Topographic generation of internal waves by nonlinear superposition of tidal harmonics. Deep-Sea Research I ; 52(4) (2005) ; 605-620.

Moore, C.M. ; Lucas, M.I. ; Sanders, R. ; Davidson, R. (2005). Basin-scale variability of phytoplankton bio-optical characteristics in relation to bloom state and community structure in the Northeast Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I ; 52(3) (2005) ; 401-419.

2004

Hydes, D.J., Gowen, R.J., Holliday, N.P., Shammon, T., Mills, D. 2003. External and internal control of winter concentrations of nutrients (N, P and Si) in north-west European shelf waters. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 59, p151-161.

Pollard, R.T. ; Read, J.F. ; Holliday, N.P. ; Leach, H. 2004. Water masses and circulation pathways through the Iceland Basin during Vivaldi 1996. Journal of Geophysical Research C (Oceans) ; 109(C4) (2004) ; art. no.-C04004 (DOI:10.1029/2003JC002067).

Belkin, I.M. 2004. Propagation of the "Great Salinity Anomaly" of the 1990s around the northern North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters ; 31(8) (2004) ; art. no.-L08306 (DOI:10.1029/2003GL019334).

Han, G.Q. 2004. Scotian Slope circulation and eddy variability from TOPEX/Poseidon and frontal analysis data. Journal of Geophysical Research C (Oceans) ; 109(C3) (2004) ; art. no.-C03028 (DOI:10.1029/2003JC002046).

Skagseth, O. 2004. Monthly to annual variability of the Norwegian Atlantic slope current: connection between the northern North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea. Deep-Sea Research I ; 51(3) (2004) ; 349-366.

2003

Holliday, N.P., 2003. Air-sea interaction and circulation changes in the north-east Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), Vol. 108, No. C8, 3259 10.1029/2002JC001344.

Holliday, N.P., 2003. Extremes of temperature and salinity during the 1990s in the northern Rockall Trough; results from the Ellett line. ICES Marine Science Symposia series, 219, p 95-101

Van Aken, H.M. 2003. Decadal changes of the hydrography between Ireland and Cape Farewell.. ICES Marine Science Symposia ; 219 (2003) ; 80-85.

2002

Dickson, R., I. Yashayaev, J. Meincke, W.R. Turrell, S. Dye, and J. Holfort, 2002. Rapid freshening of the deep North Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades, Nature, 416, 832-837.

Rippeth, T.P., and M.E. Inall, 2002. Observations of the internal tide and associated mixing across the Malin Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (C4), 2002.

2001

Holliday, N.P. and P.C. Reid, 2001. Is there a connection between high transport of water through the Rockall Trough and ecological changes in the North Sea? ICES Journal of Marine Science, 58, p270-274

Inall, M.E., G.I. Shapiro, and T.J. Sherwin, 2001. Mass transport by non-linear internal waves on the Malin Shelf, Continental Shelf Research, 21 (13-14), 1449-1472.

McCartney, M.S., and C. Mauritzen, 2001. On the origin of the warm inflow to the Nordic Seas, Progress in Oceanography, 51 (1), 125-214.

New, A.L., S. Barnard, P. Herrmann, and J.-M. Molines, On the origin and pathway of the saline inflow to the Nordic Seas: insights from models, Progress in Oceanography, 48, 255-287.

New, A.L., and D. Smythe-Wright, 2001. Aspects of the circulation in the Rockall Trough, Continental Shelf Research, 21, 777-810.

Orvik, K.A., O. Skagseth, and M. Mork, 2001. Atlantic inflow to the Nordic Seas: current structure and volume fluxes from moored current meters, VM-ADCP and SeaSoar- CTD observations, 1995-1999, Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 48 (4), 937-957.

Read, J.F., 2001. CONVEX-91: water masses and circulation of the Northeast Atlantic subpolar gyre, Progress in Oceanography, 48, 461-510, 2001.

Reid, P.C.,N.P. Holliday, T.J. Smyth, 2001 Pulses in the eastern margin current and warmer water off the north west European shelf linked to changes in North Sea ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 215, p283-287

Souza, A.J., J.H. Simpson, M. Harikrishnan, and J. Malarkey, 2001. Flow structure and seasonality in the Hebridean slope current, Oceanologica Acta, 24, S63-S76.

Xing, J.D., A.M., Davies, 2001. The influence of shelf edge flows and wind upon the circulation on the Malin Shelf and in the Irish Sea., Continental Shelf Research, 21 (1), 21-45.

Xing, J.X., and A.M. Davies, 2001. Non-linear effects of internal tides on the generation of the tidal mean flow at the Hebrides shelf edge, Geophysical Research Letters, 28 (20), 3939-3942.

2000

Davies, A.M., and J.X. Xing, 2000. Modelling of turbulent mixing at the shelf edge, Continental Shelf Research, 20 (14), 1789-1823.

Hansen, B., and S. Osterhus, 2000. North Atlantic-Nordic Seas exchanges, Progress in Oceanography, 45 (2), 109-208.

Holliday, N.P., R.T. Pollard, J.F. Read, and H. Leach 2000 Water mass properties and fluxes in the Rockall Trough; 1975 to 1998. Deep-Sea Research I, 47/7, p1303-1332.

1999

Bersch, M., J. Meincke, and A. Sy, 1999. Interannual thermohaline changes in the northern North Atlantic 1991-1996, Deep-Sea Research II, 46 (1/2), 55-75.

Burrows, M., and S.A. Thorpe, 1999. Drifter observations of the Hebrides slope current and nearby circulation patterns, Annales Geophysicae-Atmospheres Hydrospheres and Space Sciences, 17 (2), 280-302.

Burrows, M., S.A. Thorpe, and D.T. Meldrum, 1999. Dispersion over the Hebridean and Shetland shelves and slopes, Continental Shelf Research, 19 (1), 49-55.

Small, J., Z. Hallock, G. Pavey, and J. Scott, 1999. Observations of large amplitude internal waves at the Malin Shelf edge during SESAME 1995, Continental Shelf Research, 19 (11), 1389-1436.

Small, J., T.C. Sawyer, and J.C. Scott, 1999. The evolution of an internal bore at the Malin shelf break, Annales Geophysicae-Atmospheres Hydrospheres and Space Sciences, 17 (4), 547-565.

Speer, K.G., W.J. Gould, and J. LaCasce, Year-long trajectories in the Labrador Sea Water of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, Deep-Sea Research II, 46 (1/2), 165-179, 1999.

1998

Belkin, I.M., S. Levitus, J. Antonov, and S.-V. Malmberg, 1998 "Great Salinity Anomalies" in the North Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 41, 1-68.

Gowen, R.J., R. Raine, M. Dickey-Collas, and M. White, 1998. Plankton distributions in relation to physical oceanographic features on the southern Malin Shelf, August 1996, Ices Journal of Marine Science, 55 (6), 1095-1111.

Hackett, B., and L.P. Roed, 1998. A numerical study of the slope current northwest of the British Isles, Continental Shelf Research, 18 (1), 1-30.

Hill, A.E., A.J. Souza, K. Jones, J.H. Simpson, G.I. Shapiro, R. McCandliss, H. Wilson, and J. Leftley, 1998. The Malin cascade in winter 1996, Journal of Marine Research, 56, 87-106.