Professor Tom Rippeth

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Contact info

Office Location: 3rd floor Craig Mair Building, School of Ocean Sciences

Twitter: @rippetht

Email: t.p.rippeth@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: 01248 382293

Location: School of Ocean Sciences, Askew Street, Menai Bridge, LL59 5AB

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Overview

Tom is the established Chair in Physical Oceanography. He is an observational oceanographer with a strong research interest in turbulence and mixing in the marine environment. His work has involved the development of new technqiues for the measurement of aquatic turbulence, and the use of turbulence measurements to identify, unravel and quantify key physical processes which drive mixing in the ocean. His current research focuses on the impact of mixing by the tide and wind on melting Arctic sea ice and the processes determining the surface mixed layer depth in the ocean.

Tom is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Areas

Turbulence and Mixing

High Latitude Physical Oceanography

Ocean Circulation and Climate

 

  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    Wind turbines can breathe new life into our warming seas

    Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Dorrell, R., 4 Maw 2022, The Conversation.

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    Measuring Turbulent Dissipation Using a Tethered ADCP

    Lucas, N. S., Simpson, J. H. & Rippeth, T. P., 20 Maw 2014, Yn: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 31, 8, t. 1826-1837

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    Evolution of Oceanic Near Surface Stratification in Response to an Autumn Storm

    Lucas, N., Grant, A. L. M., Rippeth, T., Polton, J., Palmer, M., Brannigan, L. & Belcher, S. E., Tach 2019, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49, 11, t. 2961-2978

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    Turbulence and Coherent Structure Characterisation in a Tidally Energetic Channel

    Lucas, N., Austin, M., Rippeth, T., Powell, B. & Wakonigg, P., Gorff 2022, Yn: Renewable Energy. 194, t. 259-272

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    Seasonal cycle of vertical structure and deep water renewal in the Clyde Sea.

    Midgley, R. P., Simpson, J. H., Hyder, P. & Rippeth, T., 1 Rhag 2001, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 53, 6, t. 813-823

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    Physical controls on phytoplankton physiology and production at a shelf sea front: a fast repetition-rate fluorometer based field study.

    Moore, C. M., Suggett, D., Holligan, P. M., Sharples, J., Abraham, E. R., Lucas, M. I., Rippeth, T. P., Fisher, N. R., Simpson, J. H. & Hydes, D. J., 12 Medi 2003, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 259, t. 29-45

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    Do observations adequately resolve the natural variability of oceanic turbulence?

    Moum, J. N. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Meh 2009, Yn: Journal of Marine Systems. 77, 4, t. 409-417

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    An investigation of internal mixing in a seasonally stratified shelf sea.

    Palmer, M., Rippeth, T. P. & Simpson, J. H., 10 Rhag 2008, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 113, C12, t. C12005

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    Variable behavior in pycnocline mixing over shelf seas

    Palmer, M., Polton, J. A., Inall, M. E., Rippeth, T. P., Green, M., Sharples, J. & Simpson, J., 16 Ion 2013, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 40, 1, t. 161-166

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    Weakening of cold halocline layer exposes sea ice to oceanic heat in the eastern Arctic Ocean

    Polyakov, I., Rippeth, T., Fer, I., Alkire, M., Baumann, T., Carmack, E., Ivanov, V., Janout, M. A., Padman, L., Pnyushkov, A. & Rember, R., 15 Medi 2020, Yn: Journal of Climate. 33, 18, t. 8107-8123

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    Intensification of Near-Surface Currents and Shear in the Eastern Arctic Ocean: A More Dynamic Eastern Arctic Ocean

    Polyakov, I., Rippeth, T., Fer, I., Baumann, T., Carmack, E., Ivanov, V., Janout, M. A., Padman, L., Pnyushkov, A. & Rember, R., 28 Awst 2020, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 16, e2020GL089469.

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    Observational energy transfers of a spiral cold filament within an anticyclonic eddy

    Qiu, C., Yang, Z., Feng, M., Rippeth, T., Shang, X., Sun, Z., Jing, C., Wang, D. & Yang, J., 1 Ion 2024, Yn: Progress in Oceanography. 220

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    The diapcynal nutrient flux and shear-induced diapcynal mixing in the seasonally stratified western Irish Sea.

    Rippeth, T. P., Wiles, P. J., Palmer, M. R., Sharples, J. & Tweddle, J., 30 Meh 2009, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 29, 13, t. 1580-1587

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    Impact of sea-level rise over the last deglacial transition on the strength of the continental shelf CO2 pump.

    Rippeth, T. P., Scourse, J. D., Uehara, K. & McKeown, S., 23 Rhag 2008, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 35, 24, t. L24604

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    Thermocline mixing in summer stratified continental shelf seas.

    Rippeth, T., Palmer, M., Simpson, J. H., Fisher, N. & Sharples, J., 1 Maw 2005, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 32, 5, t. L05602

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  16. Cyhoeddwyd

    Vertical mixing in seasonally stratified continental shelf seas

    Rippeth, T. P., 1 Ion 2005, t. 25-30.

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    Climate change is depleting deep sea oxygen, but tides are helping to keep the ocean healthy

    Rippeth, T. & Lincoln, B., 22 Ebr 2024, The Conversation.

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    Turbulent mixing in a changing Arctic Ocean

    Rippeth, T. & Fine, E., Meh 2022, Yn: Oceanography. 35, 2, 11 t.

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    Tides, the Moon and the Kaleidoscope of Ocean Mixing

    Rippeth, T. & Green, M., 16 Tach 2020, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review. Hawkins, S. J., Allcock, A. L., Bates, A. E., Evans, A. J., Firth, L. B., McQuaid, C. D., Russell, B. D., Smith, I. P., Swearer, S. E. & Todd, P. A. (gol.). Taylor & Francis, Cyfrol 58. t. 319-350

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    The cycle of turbulent dissipation in the presence of tidal straining.

    Rippeth, T. P., Fisher, N. R. & Simpson, J. H., 1 Awst 2001, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 31, 8, t. 2458-2471

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  21. Cyhoeddwyd

    Density and flow structure in the Clyde Sea front

    Rippeth, T., Kasai, A. & Simpson, J., 1 Tach 1999, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 19, 4, t. 1833-1848

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  22. Cyhoeddwyd

    Diurnal signals in vertical motions on the Hebridean Shelf

    Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1 Tach 1998, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 43, 7, t. 1690-1696

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    Dissipation of Tidal Energy and Associated Mixing in a Wide Fjord

    Rippeth, T. & Inall, M. E., 1 Medi 2002, Yn: Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2, 3, t. 219-240

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    The Increasing Prevalence of High Frequency Internal Waves in an Arctic Ocean With Declining Sea Ice Cover

    Rippeth, T., Vlasenko, V., Stashchuk, N., Koslov, I., Scannell, B., Green, M., Lincoln, B. & Lenn, Y-D., 11 Tach 2019, ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, OMAE2019-96621

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    Measurement of the rates of production and dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy in an energetic tidal flow: Red Wharf Bay revisited.

    Rippeth, T. P., Simpson, J. H., Williams, E. & Inall, M. E., 1 Medi 2003, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33, 9, t. 1889-1901

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