Ocean-related research at Reading




This page aims to help keep those people who are involved in ocean-related research at Reading in touch.

Upcoming Events


Suggestions of speakers, volunteers to lead discussions or any other ideas (for now or next term) welcome!

14 January 2009 11:00 1L43 Lesley Allison Title: Spin-up and adjustment of the ACC and the global pycnocline
15 May 2008 1100 GU10 Gregory Smith (ESSC) Title: Development of a new ocean reanalysis using the S(T) assimilation method and its application to the recovery of climate signals
29 May 2008 1100 GU10 Ed Hawkins (CGAM) Title: An introduction to Linear Inverse Modelling: forecasting and optimal perturbations

People

Email sent to oceantalk@lists.reading.ac.uk will be delivered to all those listed below and a few more who have expressed interest.

Caroline Bain c.bain@reading.ac.uk Ocean gravity currents
Stephen Belcher s.e.belcher@reading.ac.uk Ocean waves
Rory Bingham rjb@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk Satellite gravity applied to oceanography
Cristina Carollo cca@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk Extreme events in ocean currents
Jonathan Gregory j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk Ocean climate change: heat uptake, THC, sea level change
Eric Guilyardi ericg@met.reading.ac.uk ENSO, role of salinity in ocean circulation, lateral diffusion, coupled model development
Keith Haines kh@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk Data assimilation, e-Science
Taro Hosoe taro@met.rdg.ac.uk Effect of the cryosphere on the thermohaline circulation (a RAPID project)
Helen Johnson H.L.Johnson@reading.ac.uk Ocean dynamics, thermohaline circulation, high-latitude oceanography
Jason Lowe jason.lowe@metoffice.com Sea level change, sea level extremes
David Marshall d.p.marshall@reading.ac.uk Ocean dynamics, thermohaline circulation, finite-element modelling of the ocean
Dave Munday swr01drm@reading.ac.uk Separation from the coast of western boundary currents
Nancy Nichols n.k.nichols@reading.ac.uk Data assimilation, control theory
James Percival j.r.percival@reading.ac.uk Eddy parametrisation, data assimilation
Sam Pimentel spi@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk Data assimilation in oceanography
Jeff Polton j.a.polton@reading.ac.uk Langmuir circulation and turbulence
Rowan Sutton rowan@met.reading.ac.uk Ocean-atmosphere interactions, thermohaline circulation, especially Atlantic
Paul Williams williams@met.reading.ac.uk Role of salinity in ocean circulation and ocean climate change
Remi Tailleux r.g.j.tailleux@reading.ac.uk Planetary waves, thermohaline circulation, thermodynamics and energetics of oceans and atmospheres
Ed Hawkins e.hawkins@reading.ac.uk ..
Lars Czeschel sws05lc@reading.ac.uk ..
Greg Smith gcs@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk ..
Emmanuel Hanert e.a.hanert@reading.ac.uk Finite element techniques
Chris Brierley c.m.brierley@rdg.ac.uk Model Uncertainty in Climate Predictions, ocean heat uptake
Hilary Weller h.spencer@reading.ac.uk Adaptive modelling of the atmosphere, El Nino and the Indian Ocean


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Past Events

1 May 2008 1100 GU10 Thomas Toniazzo (CGAM) SSTs and temperature advection in the tropical South-East Pacific
3 April 2008 1100 GU10 Lesley Allison (Met Department) Adjustment in the Antarctic Circumpolar current and the global pycnocline
21 Feburary 2008 1030 GU10 John Donners (CGAM) Impact of cooling on Agulhas ring decay in a high-resolution ocea model
24 January 2008 1100 GU10 Rob Scott (U. of Text) Some terms in the World Ocean budget
22 November 2007 1200 GU10 Dudley Chelton (OSU) Global observations of oceanic eddies by satellite altimetry
25 June 2007 1200 GU01 Michael Vellinga (Met Office) Independencies of northward ocean and atmosphere heat transports (dept. Seminar)
7 June 2007 1100 GU10 Audine Laurian (LOCEAN, U. Paris 6 Generation mechanisms of poleward propagating spiciness anomalies
24 May 2007 1100 GU10 Ed Hawkins (Met. Dept. Reading) Highlights from the recent decadal variability workshop in Hawaii
8 May 2007 1200 GU01Till Kuhlbrodt (Potsdam) A decrease of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation - likelihood, impacts, and avoidance strategies (Departmental seminar)
24 April 2007 1100 GU10 Eric GuilyardiUnderstanding El Niņo in coupled GCMs: new perspectives
23 April 2007 1200 GU01Claude Frankignoul (UPMC, France)Simulated variability of the North Atlantic circulation from 1953 to 2003 (Departmental Seminar)
13 March 2007 1300 GU01Steve Woolnough The role of the ocean in the Madden Julian Oscillation: Experiments with the ECMWF Monthly Forecasting System (Lunchtime seminar)
12 March 2007 1100 GU10David Munday Flow separation around islands
28 February 2007 1100 GU10 Hilary Weller Higher Order Discretisation for Unstructured Finite Volume Modelling of the Global Shallow Water Equations (Tropical hour)
19 February 2007 1500 GU10Remi Tailleux Optimization of the ocean heat engine
12 February 2007 1200 GU01Agatha de Boer (UEA) Atlantic dominance of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (Departmental seminar)
9 February 2007 1000 GU10Ed Hawkins Variability of the THC described by 3D EOFs (CGAM meeting)
8 February 2007 1200 Maths 314Lucy Bricheno (Numerical analysis seminar)
2 February 2007 1500 Maths 113Jemma Shipton Modelling turbulence in complex shallow water flows (Maths seminar)
22 January 2007 1500 GU10 Andrew Thompson (UEA)Jets and Eddies in Baroclinic Turbulence.
17 January 2007 1400 GU10Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC) Some Arctic and Southern Ocean issues and projects for the future...
19 December 20061400 314 MathsDaniel le Roux (Laval University, Quebec) Numerically-induced oscillations in finite-element shallow-water models for gravity and Rossby waves.
11 December 20061600 GU10Emmanuel Hanert Finite elements and their application to ocean modelling.
30 November 2006 1000 GU10Leon Hermanson Seriously salty simulations: perturbing salinity in the HadCM3 Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas
30 November 2006 1200 Maths 314Jemma Shipton The Contour Advective Semi-Lagrangian algorithm: a novel numerical algorithm for modelling shallow water flows on a sphere (Numerical Analysis Group meeting)
30 November 2006 1400 ESSCTorsten Kanzow (NOC) Flow compensation and variability associated with the meridional overturning circulation (ESSC seminar)
23 November 2006 1100 1L36Sonia Gamiz Fortis Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas region in a coupled climate model (NTTG meeting).
19 October 2006 1100 GU10Thierry Penduff (Grenoble) The first 1958-2004 1/4-degree global ocean/sea-ice DRAKKAR simulation
16 October 2006 1200 GU01Peter Killworth (NOC) Planetary wave response to surface forcing and to instability in the presence of mean flow and topography (Met Dept seminar).
4 October 2006 1000 GU10Robin Smith Factors limiting anthropogenic carbon uptake to the North Atlantic in ocean carbon cycle models.
5 September 2006 1100 GU10First year student session! A chance to hear from Geoff, Lesley and Kirsty about their PhD projects
25 July 2006 1200 GU10Kuniko Yamazaki (Oxford)Some results from the climateprediction.net coupled ensemble experiment
19 July 2006 1400 GU10 Pavel Berloff (Cambridge)The turbulent oscillator: physical mechanisms for the intrinsic decadal variability.
14 July 2006 1100 GU10Anne-Marie Treguier (France) Internal and forced variability along a section between Greenland and Portugal in the CLIPPER Atlantic model
7 July 2006 1100 GU10Jason Lowe and Jonathan Gregory Understanding projections of sea level rise in a Hadley Centre coupled climate model
6 July 2006 1100 GU10Chris Brierley Two Southern Ocean papers! (NTTG meeting)
Thursday 8 June 20061100 GU10 Ed Hawkins EOFs of the THC
Thursday 1 June 2006 - double-header! 1100 GU10 Adam Candy (Imperial) Regularising subgrid scale information in the next generation of ocean models
1630 Oxford Carl Wunsch (MIT) Astronomical controls on climate (Oxford Halley Lecture 2006: we can travel up there together after lunch)
Tuesday 23 May 2006 1400 ESSC Matt Palmer (Hadley Centre) The Hadley Centre global subsurface ocean analysis (HadGOA): ocean heat content estimates from isotherm depths (ESSC seminar)
Tuesday 16 May 2006 1200 1L61 Zhaomin Wang (BAS) Glacial abrupt climate changes and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations in a coupled climate model
Monday 15 May 2006 1200 GU01 Karen Heywood (UEA) The Southern Ocean: polar processes and global circulation (Met department lunchtime seminar)
Tuesday 9 May 2006 1000 GU10 Group discussion and literature review Ocean heat transport
Thursday 27 April 2006 1400 ESSC Sam Pimentel SST assimilation experiments in a 1-D ocean model (ESSC seminar)
Thursday 23 March 2006 1200 GU10 Lucy Bricheno (Imperial) Unstructured finite element modelling and parameterisation of ocean convection
Monday 20 March 2006 1100 GU10 Tom Haine (John Hopkins University) On North Atlantic subpolar gyre circulation and transport
Thursday 16 March 2006 1100 1L43 Tore Furevik (Bergen) What is driving the oceanic heat transport to northern Europe and the Arctic
Thursday 9 March 2006 1000 1L61 James Percival Displacement data assimilation in ocean models
Tuesday 7 March 2006 1500 1L61 Joel Hirschi (Southampton) MOC variability in OCCAM
Tuesday 21 February 2006 1300 GU01 Remi Tailleux Oceanic Rossby waves (Met department lunchtime seminar)
Thursday 16 February 2006 1400 ESSC Jean-Philippe Drecourt Treatment of bias in altimeter data assimilation. Lessons from the GOCINA project.
Thursday 9 February 2006 1000 GU10 RAPID Termly meeting (for RAPID-funded scientists)
Thursday 2 February 2006 1000 1L36 Chris Brierley Relative Parameter Certainty in Climate Predictions
Wednesday 25 January 2006 1600 1L61 Didier Swingedouw (LSCE) Sensitivity of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation to global freshwater forcing
Monday 23 January 2006 1200 GU01 Vincent Legat (Universite Catholique de Louvain) Finite elements and ocean modelling (Met department lunchtime seminar)
Monday 16 January 2006 1200 GU01 Alex Nimmo Smith (University of Plymouth) Flow visualisation of turbulence in the bottom boundary layer of the coastal ocean (Met department lunchtime seminar)
Tuesday 10 January 2006 1400 ESSC Helene Banks (Met Office) Ocean heat uptake in coupled models
Thursday 8 December 2005 1000 1L36 David Marshall Eddy parameterization: mixing, conservation and flow stability
Wednesday 30 November 2005 1400 GU10 Jonathan Gregory Sea-level rise
Thursday 24 November 2005 1000 GU10 Paul Williams A new feedback from the hydrological cycle on the rate of climate change
Tuesday 15 November 2005 1500 GU10 Maarten Ambaum Some theoretical ideas on contour dynamics
Thursday 10 November 2005 1100 Coffee room .. Informal group discussion
Thursday 27 October 2005 1400 ESSC Greg Smith (ESSC) The Gulf of St. Lawrence in winter: tides, mixing and watermass formation
Tuesday 18 October 2005 1500 GU10 Remi Tailleux Spiciness and ocean energetics
Friday 14 October 2005 1100 1L61 Lars Czeschel The role of eddies for the deep water formation in the Labrador Sea
Thursday 13 October 2005 1400 ESSC Nicky White (Earth Sciences, Cambridge) Seismic oceanography
Monday 5 September 2005 1400 1L43 Allan Clarke (Florida State University) Rossby wave propagation speeds off the California coast
Thursday 1 September 20051100 1L61 Hannah Longworth (Southampton) Historical Estimates of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Monday, 7th February 20051200 GU01 Jose da Silva (Lisbon) SAR image interpretation of atmospheric internal waves over the ocean
Friday, 12th November 20041000 1L43 John Church (CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart) Sea level change
Friday, 6th August 20041100 1L43 Simon Holgate (Proudman Oceanographic Lab) Sea level change
Monday, 14th June 2004GU10 Group discussion day
Monday, 10th May 20041500 1L43 Paul Myers (Edmonton) Freshwater transport, topography and overflows in an eddy-permitting model of the sub-polar gyre
Thursday, 1st April 20041100 1L61 Paolo Cipollini (SOC) Planetary waves in the oceans: a look from space
Thursday, 19th February 20041600 ESSC Taro HosoeHorizontal mixing and hysteresis in a intermediate complexity ocean model
Thursday, 18th December 20031100 1L61 Marc Lucas (SOC)Variability of the thermohaline circulation
Thursday, 4th December 20031400 ESSC Keith HainesWater mass anomalies in the North Atlantic (ESSC seminar series)
Monday, 24th November 20031500 1L43 John Marshall (MIT)Southern Ocean dynamics
Wednesday, 19th November 20031400 1L43 Helen Johnson (UVic) Measuring mixing and the Canadian Archipelago Throughflow Study
Monday, 10th November 20031030 1L43 Alan Plumb (MIT)Residual circulation and eddy transport in the ocean
Thursday, 6th November 20031600 1L36 Meeting to become acquainted

Remi Tailleux