NOCS Physical Oceanography and Climate seminars 2011-2012
Unless stated otherwise, seminars are held on
Wednesdays, 15:00-16:00
in the Henry Charnock Lecture Theatre.Visitors should check before travelling to attend the seminar. Click here to find us
For other NOC seminars, please see here.
If you would like give a presentation please contact the seminar conveners Alex Megann or Yevgeny Aksenov.
Autumn Term 2011
Wed 5 October
- Nathan Bindoff, University of Tasmania
- Pathways and impacts of Southern Ocean currents on Antarctic ice-sheet melting in response to global warming
Wed 12 October, Conference room, 10:00-11:00 *** NOTE: TIME AND PLACE***
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John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- AMOC and the Mann Eddy: thoughts on decadal variability of the North Atlantic Ocean
Wed 12 October
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John Taylor, DAMTP, Cambridge
- Turbulence, mixing, and blooms at ocean fronts
Thu 13 October, Red Meeting Room, NOCS Library, 11:00-12:00 *** NOTE: TIME AND PLACE***
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Xavier Capet, IFREMER, France
- Upper ocean submesoscale frontal turbulence: manifestation, processes and effects
Wed 19 October
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Tim Woollings, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
- Ocean-atmosphere coupling in the Atlantic storm track response to climate change
Wed 26 October
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Sunke Schmidtko, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
- Multi-decadal warming and shoaling of Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW)
Wed 9 November
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Maarten Ambaum, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
- Thermodynamics of the Climate System
Mon 14 November, Conference room, 14:00-15:00 *** NOTE: TIME AND PLACE***
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Helen Phillips, University of Tasmania
- Observations of the non-equivalent barotropic structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Wed 16 November
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James Maddison, Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
- Eddy parameterisation and integral constraints: A geometric framework
Wed 23 November
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Anna Kaczmarska, NOCS
- Seasonal and Interannual Sea Surface Height Variability in the Nordic Seas
Wed 30 November
- *** Seminar postponed ***
Because of the widespread industrial action today, Stephanie Waterman's seminar has been postponed until 7 December.
Wed 7 December
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Stephanie Waterman, NOCS / Grantham Institute
- Eddy-mean flow interactions in an unstable jet: A new perspective based on eddy shape and propagation
Spring Term 2012
Wed 11 January
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Jeff Polton, NOC Liverpool
- Improved understanding of shelf sea dynamics and tidal residual circulation through combined observations and modelling: application to Liverpool Bay
Wed 18 January
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Alberto Naveira Garabato, NOCS
- Is the Southern Ocean overturning sensitive to decadal changes in wind forcing?
Wed 25 January
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Flavien Gouillon, COAPS (Florida State University) and SHOM, Toulouse
- Using HYCOM at the SHOM: process studies to operational modeling
Wed 1 February
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TBA
- Title TBA
Wed 8 February
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Alex Megann, NOCS
- Salinity anomalies and the stability of the AMOC
Wed 15 February
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Katharine Giles, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL
- Observing the Arctic sea ice cover and ocean from space: Recent changes from Envisat and the current status of CryoSat-2
Wed 22 February
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Werenfrid Wimmer, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
- Measuring the Ocean's Skin
Wed 29 February
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Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda, NOC Liverpool
- A review of ocean circulations forced by geothermal sources
Wed 7 March
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Elizabeth Kent, John Prytherch and Margaret Yelland, NOCS
- Progress in measuring and understanding air-sea fluxes
Wed 14 March
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Ed Hawkins, CGAM, University of Reading
- The many abilities of the Atlantic Ocean: variability, bistability and predictability
