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
High Latitude Physical Oceanography
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A PRESCRIPTIVE MODEL OF STRATIFICATION INDUCED BY FRESH-WATER RUNOFF
Simpson, J., Sharples, J. & Rippeth, T., 1 Gorff 1991, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 33, 1, t. 23-35Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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A novel technique for measuring mixing using Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs)
Wiles, P., Simpson, J. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Ion 2005, t. 9-13.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
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A novel technique for measuring the rate of turbulent dissipation in the marine environment.
Wiles, P. J., Rippeth, T. P., Simpson, J. H. & Hendricks, P. J., 10 Tach 2006, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 33, 21, t. L21608Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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A seminal paper on shelf-sea fronts: Insights that led to a new branch of physical oceanography
Rippeth, T., 1 Ion 2024, Ocean Challenge, 27, 1, t. 12-16.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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Acoustic Dopper Techniques
Simpson, J., Rippeth, T. P., Williams, E., Betteridge, K., Baumert, H. Z. (Golygydd) & Sundermann, J. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2005, Marine Turbulence: Theories: Observations and Models. 2005 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 127-138Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
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Acoustic Dopper Techniques.
Simpson, J. H., Rippeth, T., Williams, E., Betteridge, K., Baumert, H. Z. (Golygydd) & Sundermann, J. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2005, Marine Turbulence: Theories: Observations and Models. 2005 gol. Cambridge University Press, t. 127-138Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
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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. C12005Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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An ‘extreme’ heatwave has hit the seas around the UK and Ireland – here’s what’s going on
Rippeth, T., 23 Meh 2023, The Conversation.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure
Dorrell, R., Lloyd, C., Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T., Taylor, J., Caulfield, C.-C., Sharples, J., Polton, J., Scannell, B., Greaves, D., Hall, R. & Simpson, J., 22 Maw 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 830927.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl adolygu › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean
Rippeth, T., 1 Medi 2022, Ocean Challenge, 26, 1, t. 17-21 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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Celebrating 50 years of sea-going science on the RV Prince Madog
Van Landeghem, K. & Rippeth, T., 1 Chwef 2020, Ocean Challenge, 24, 1, t. 30-39.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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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.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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Comparing the performance of the Mellor-Yamada and the k-epsilon two-equation turbulence models
Burchard, H., Pederson, O. & Rippeth, T., 15 Mai 1998, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 103, C5, t. 10543-10554Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Correcting surface wave bias in structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate
Scannell, B., Rippeth, T., Simpson, J., Polton, J. & Hopkins, J., Hyd 2017, Yn: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 34, 10, t. 2257-2273Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Current oscillations in the diurnal-inertial band on the Catalonian shelf in spring.
Rippeth, T. P., Simpson, J. H., Player, R. J. & Garcia, M., 1 Ion 2002, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 22, 2, t. 247-265Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 1833-1848Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 219-240Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Diurnal signals in vertical motions on the Hebridean Shelf
Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1 Tach 1998, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 43, 7, t. 1690-1696Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 409-417Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Evolution and distribution of the production and dissipation within stratified flow over topography.
Inall, M., Rippeth, T. P., Griffiths, C. & Wiles, P., 30 Ebr 2005, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 32, 8, t. L08607Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 2961-2978Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Forced oscillations near the critical latitude for diurnal-inertial resonance.
Simpson, J. H., Hyder, P., Rippeth, T. P. & Lucas, I. M., 1 Ion 2002, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 32, 1, t. 177-187Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Generation of bulk shear spikes in shallow stratified tidal seas.
Burchard, H. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Ebr 2009, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39, 4, t. 969-985Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Global tidal impacts of large-scale ice-sheet collapses
Wilmes, S.-B., Green, M., Gomez, M., Lau, H. & Rippeth, T., Tach 2017, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 122, 11, t. 8354-8370Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Impact of acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) motion on structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate
Scannell, B., Lenn, Y.-D. & Rippeth, T., 3 Chwef 2022, Yn: Ocean Science. 18, 1, t. 169–192Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Impact of nonlinear waves on the dissipation of internal tidal energy at a shelf break.
Inall, M. E., Rippeth, T. P. & Sherwin, T. J., 15 Ebr 2000, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. 105, C4, t. 8687-8705Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. L24604Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Impact of vertical mixing on sea surface pCO2 in temperate seasonally stratified shelf seas
Rippeth, T. P., Lincoln, B. J., Kennedy, H. A., Palmer, M., Sharples, J. & Williams, C. A., 20 Meh 2014, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 119, 6, t. 3868-3882Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Increasing nutrient fluxes and mixing regime changes in the eastern Arctic Ocean
Shultz, K., Lincoln, B., Povazhnyy, V., Rippeth, T., Lenn, Y.-D., Janout, M., Alkire, M., Scannell, B. & Torres-Valdes, S., 16 Maw 2022, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 5, e2021GL096152.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Inertial currents in the northern North sea
Knight, P., Howarth, M. J. & Rippeth, T., 1 Meh 2002, Yn: Journal of Sea Research. 47, 3-4, t. 269-284Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Intermittent intense turbulent mixing under ice in the Laptev Sea continental shelf.
Lenn, Y., Rippeth, T. P., Old, C., Bacon, S., Polyakov, I., Ivanov, V. & Holemann, J., 1 Maw 2011, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41, 3, t. 531-547Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Internal Waves ...... or something completely different
Rippeth, T. P., 1 Ion 2000, Yn: Ocean Challenge. 9, 3, t. 32-36Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 1889-1901Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 1826-1837Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Microstructure of turbulence in the northern North Sea: a comparative study of observations and model simulations.
Burchard, H., Bolding, K., Rippeth, T. P., Stips, A., Simpson, J. H. & Sundermann, J., 1 Meh 2002, Yn: Journal of Sea Research. 47, 3-4, t. 223-238Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas: a shifting paradigm.
Rippeth, T. P., 1 Rhag 2005, Yn: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 363, 1837, t. 2837-2854Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Non-conservative nutrient fluxes from budgets for the Irish Sea
Simpson, J. & Rippeth, T., 1 Rhag 1998, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 47, 6, t. 707-714Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing
Burchard, H., Craig, P. D., Gemmrich, J. R., Van Haren, H., Mathieu, P. P., Meier, H. E., Nimmo Smith, W. A., Prandke, H., Rippeth, T. P., Skyllingstad, E. D., Smyth, W. D., Welsh, D. J. & Wijesekera, H. W., 1 Maw 2008, Yn: Progress in Oceanography. 76, 4, t. 399-442Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 220Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Observations of a diapycnal shortcut to adiabatic upwelling of Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water
Silvester, J. M., Lenn, Y. D., Polton, J. A., Rippeth, T. P. & Maqueda, M. M., 25 Tach 2014, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 41, 22, t. 7950-7956Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Observations of internal tidal waves in the isolated seasonally stratified region of the western Irish Sea.
Green, J. A., Simpson, J. H., Thorpe, S. A. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Chwef 2010, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 30, 2, t. 214-225Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Observations of the internal tide and associated mixing across the Malin Shelf.
Rippeth, T. P. & Inall, M. E., 15 Ebr 2002, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. 107, C4, t. 3028Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Ocean nutrient pathways associated with passage of a storm
Rumyantseva, A., Lucas, N., Rippeth, T. P., Henson, S., Martin, A. & Painter, S., 16 Gorff 2015, Yn: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28, 8, t. 1179–1189Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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PERIODIC STRATIFICATION IN THE RHINE ROFI IN THE NORTH-SEA
Simpson, J., Bos, P., Schirmer, F., Souza, A., Rippeth, T., Jones, S. & Hydes, D., 1993, Yn: Oceanologica Acta. 16, 1, t. 23-32Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Physical controls on phytoplankton and nutrient cycles in the Clyde Sea, a fjordic system on the west coast of Scotland
Jones, K., Grantham, B., Ezzi, I., Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1995, Mare Nor Symposium on the Ecology of Fjords and Coastal Waters. t. 93-104Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 29-45Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Phytoplankton distribution and survival in the thermocline.
Sharples, J., Moore, C. M., Rippeth, T. P., Holligan, P. M., Hydes, D. J., Fisher, N. R. & Simpson, J. H., 1 Mai 2001, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 46, 3, t. 486-496Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Phytoplankton survival in the thermocline.
Sharples, J., Moore, C. M., Rippeth, T. P., Holligan, P. M., Hydes, D. J., Fisher, N. R. & Simpson, J. H., 1 Ion 2001, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 46, 3, t. 486-496Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Processes contributing to the evolution and destruction of stratification in the Liverpool Bay ROFI
Howlett, E., Rippeth, T. & Howarth, M. J., 20 Mai 2011, Yn: Ocean Dynamics. 61, t. 1403–1419Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid