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We carry out fundamental research into the role of the ocean and water in the changing climate using cutting edge data science methods combined with physically based theory and numerical modelling.
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Water-Mass Coordinates Isolate the Historical Ocean Warming Signal
Journal of Climate
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01 May 2023
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-22-0363.1
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2024
Unsupervised Classification Identifies Warm, Fresh, and Dense Regimes of the Antarctic Margins
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jun 2024
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-23-0153.1
The Ocean's Meridional Oxygen Transport
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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01 Mar 2024
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doi:10.1029/2023jc020259
Water properties and bottom water patterns in hadal trench environments
Ocean Science
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02 Feb 2024
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doi:10.5194/os-20-123-2024
2023
Anthropogenic Aerosols Offsetting Ocean Warming Less Efficiently Since the 1980s
Geophysical Research Letters
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02 Dec 2023
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doi:10.1029/2023gl105374
Committed future ice-shelf melt
Nature Climate Change
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23 Oct 2023
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doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01817-y
Southern ocean carbon and heat impact on climate
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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08 May 2023
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doi:10.1098/rsta.2022.0056
Water-Mass Coordinates Isolate the Historical Ocean Warming Signal
Journal of Climate
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01 May 2023
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-22-0363.1
Rectified Ocean Heat Uptake from Oscillatory Surface Forcing
Journal of Climate
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15 Apr 2023
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-22-0267.1
Can We Accurately Quantify a Lateral Diffusivity from a Single Tracer Release?
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-22-0145.1
2022
Past and future ocean warming
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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18 Oct 2022
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doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00345-1
Mechanisms of Ocean Heat Uptake along and across Isopycnals
Journal of Climate
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01 Aug 2022
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-21-0793.1
Interactions Between a Marine Heatwave and Tropical Cyclone Amphan in the Bay of Bengal in 2020
Frontiers in Climate
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07 Jun 2022
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doi:10.3389/fclim.2022.861477
Adiabatic and Diabatic Signatures of Ocean Temperature Variability
Journal of Climate
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01 Mar 2022
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-21-0695.1
Observed poleward freshwater transport since 1970
Nature
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23 Feb 2022
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doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04370-w
The role of mixing in the large-scale ocean circulation
Ocean Mixing
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01 Jan 2022
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doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-821512-8.00010-4
2021
The Geography of Numerical Mixing in a Suite of Global Ocean Models
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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01 Jul 2021
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doi:10.1029/2020ms002333
Super Residual Circulation: a new perspective on ocean vertical heat transport
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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21 May 2021
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-21-0008.1
Recent Water Mass Changes Reveal Mechanisms of Ocean Warming
Journal of Climate
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01 May 2021
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-20-0355.1
Fifty Year Trends in Global Ocean Heat Content Traced to Surface Heat Fluxes in the Sub‐Polar Ocean
Geophysical Research Letters
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24 Apr 2021
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doi:10.1029/2020gl091439
Internal salt content: a useful framework for understanding the oceanic branch of the water cycle
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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13 Apr 2021
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-20-0212.1
A Mass and Energy Conservation Analysis of Drift in the CMIP6 Ensemble
Journal of Climate
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01 Apr 2021
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-20-0281.1
Improving Australian Rainfall Prediction Using Sea Surface Salinity
Journal of Climate
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01 Apr 2021
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-20-0625.1
Roles of Shear and Convection in Driving Mixing in the Ocean
Geophysical Research Letters
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09 Feb 2021
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doi:10.1029/2020GL089455
2020
Near-Surface Salinity Reveals the Oceanic Sources of Moisture for Australian Precipitation through Atmospheric Moisture Transport
Journal of Climate
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01 Aug 2020
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doi:10.1175/jcli-d-19-0579.1
The Observation-Based Application of a Regional Thermohaline Inverse Method to Diagnose the Formation and Transformation of Water Masses North of the OSNAP Array from 2013 to 2015
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jun 2020
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-19-0188.1
The Dynamics of Mixed Layer Deepening during Open-Ocean Convection
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jun 2020
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-19-0264.1
Changing water cycle and freshwater transports in the Atlantic Ocean in observations and CMIP5 models
Climate Dynamics
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05 May 2020
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doi:10.1007/s00382-020-05261-y
Recent hemispheric asymmetry in global ocean warming induced by climate change and internal variability
Nature Communications
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24 Apr 2020
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doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15754-3
Tracking the spread of a passive tracer through Southern Ocean water masses
Ocean Science
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12 Mar 2020
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doi:10.5194/os-16-323-2020
2019
Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport Enabled by Indo‐Pacific Heat Uptake and Mixing
Geophysical Research Letters
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11 Dec 2019
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doi:10.1029/2019gl085160
Reply to “Comments on ‘Diathermal Heat Transport in a Global Ocean Model’”
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Aug 2019
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-19-0139.1
The Impact of Turbulence and Convection on Transport in the Southern Ocean
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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01 Jun 2019
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doi:10.1029/2018jc014883
The Water Mass Transformation Framework for Ocean Physics and Biogeochemistry
Annual Review of Marine Science
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03 Jan 2019
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doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010318-095421
Diathermal Heat Transport in a Global Ocean Model
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jan 2019
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-18-0098.1
2018
The Cold Transit of Southern Ocean Upwelling
Geophysical Research Letters
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21 Dec 2018
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doi:10.1029/2018GL079986
A Regional Thermohaline Inverse Method for Estimating Circulation and Mixing in the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
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01 Dec 2018
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doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0198.1
Improved estimates of water cycle change from ocean salinity: the key role of ocean warming
Environmental Research Letters
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01 Jul 2018
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doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aace42
Convection Enhances Mixing in the Southern Ocean
Geophysical Research Letters
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11 May 2018
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doi:10.1029/2018GL077711
Mediterranean sea water budget long-term trend inferred from salinity observations
Climate Dynamics
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10 Jan 2018
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doi:10.1007/s00382-017-4053-7
Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices
Ocean Modelling
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01 Jan 2018
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doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.11.008
2017
Can the Ocean's Heat Engine Control Horizontal Circulation? Insights From the Caspian Sea
Geophysical Research Letters
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09 Oct 2017
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doi:10.1002/2017GL075182
High-latitude ocean ventilation and its role in Earth's climate transitions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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07 Aug 2017
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doi:10.1098/rsta.2016.0324
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing System
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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01 Apr 2017
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doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1
Recent Wind-Driven Variability in Atlantic Water Mass Distribution and Meridional Overturning Circulation
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Mar 2017
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-16-0089.1
Mixing Inferred from an Ocean Climatology and Surface Fluxes
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Mar 2017
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doi:10.1175/jpo-d-16-0125.1
The Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Hydrothermohaline Circulation
Journal of Climate
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15 Jan 2017
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doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0759.1
2016
Global water cycle amplifying at less than the Clausius-Clapeyron rate
Scientific Reports
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09 Dec 2016
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doi:10.1038/srep38752
Assessing recent air-sea freshwater flux changes using a surface temperature-salinity space framework
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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01 Dec 2016
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doi:10.1002/2016JC012091
The thermodynamic balance of the Weddell Gyre
Geophysical Research Letters
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14 Jan 2016
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doi:10.1002/2015GL066658
A Microscale View of Mixing and Overturning across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jan 2016
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-15-0025.1
2015
Maintenance and Broadening of the Ocean’s Salinity Distribution by the Water Cycle
Journal of Climate
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15 Dec 2015
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doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0273.1
Changes in ocean vertical heat transport with global warming
Geophysical Research Letters
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28 Jun 2015
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doi:10.1002/2015GL064156
Sensitivity of Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport and Eddy Activity to Wind Patterns in the Southern Ocean
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Apr 2015
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-14-0053.1
Constrained work output of the moist atmospheric heat engine in a warming climate
Science
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30 Jan 2015
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doi:10.1126/science.1257103
2014
The imprint of Southern Ocean overturning on seasonal water mass variability in Drake Passage
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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01 Nov 2014
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doi:10.1002/2014JC010097
A Thermohaline Inverse Method for Estimating Diathermohaline Circulation and Mixing
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Oct 2014
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-14-0039.1
The Representation of Ocean Circulation and Variability in Thermodynamic Coordinates
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jul 2014
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-13-0213.1
The Atmospheric General Circulation in Thermodynamical Coordinates
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
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27 Feb 2014
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doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0173.1
2013
Acceleration of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by Wind Stress along the Coast of Antarctica
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Dec 2013
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-13-091.1
Revisiting meridional overturing bistability using a minimal set of state variables: stochastic theory
Climate Dynamics
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19 Nov 2013
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doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1992-5
Vertical Heat Transport by Ocean Circulation and the Role of Mechanical and Haline Forcing
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Oct 2013
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-0179.1
Vertical Eddy Fluxes in the Southern Ocean
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 May 2013
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-0178.1
2012
Standing and Transient Eddies in the Response of the Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning to the Southern Annular Mode
Journal of Climate
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11 May 2012
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doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00309.1
The Ocean Circulation in Thermohaline Coordinates
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 May 2012
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doi:10.1175/JPO-D-11-0139.1
Tasman leakage in a fine‐resolution ocean model
Geophysical Research Letters
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24 Mar 2012
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doi:10.1029/2012GL051004
2011
Sea Level Expression of Intrinsic and Forced Ocean Variabilities at Interannual Time Scales
Journal of Climate
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01 Nov 2011
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doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00077.1
2010
Weak Mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic: An Application of the Tracer-Contour Inverse Method
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Aug 2010
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doi:10.1175/2010JPO4360.1
A Tracer-Contour Inverse Method for Estimating Ocean Circulation and Mixing
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jan 2010
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doi:10.1175/2009JPO4208.1
2009
Diagnosing the Southern Ocean Overturning from Tracer Fields
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Nov 2009
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doi:10.1175/2009JPO4052.1
2008
Vertical and Lateral Mixing Processes Deduced from the Mediterranean Water Signature in the North Atlantic
Journal of Physical Oceanography
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01 Jan 2008
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doi:10.1175/2007JPO3507.1