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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Wind-driven nutrient pulses to the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in seasonally stratified shelf seas
Williams, C., Sharples, J., Mahaffey, C. & Rippeth, T., 28 Hyd 2013, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 40, 20, t. 5467-5472 6 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Wind-driven mixing at intermediate depths in an ice-free Arctic Ocean
Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T., Lenn, Y.-D., Timmermans, M.-L., Willaims, W. & Bacon, S., 28 Medi 2016, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 18, t. 9749-9756Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Wind turbines can breathe new life into our warming seas
Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Dorrell, R., 4 Maw 2022, The Conversation.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
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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. 8107-8123Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Vertical mixing in seasonally stratified continental shelf seas
Rippeth, T. P., 1 Ion 2005, t. 25-30.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
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Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current.
Lenn, Y. D., Wiles, P. J., Torres-Valdes, S., Abrahamsen, E. P., Rippeth, T. P., Simpson, J. H., Bacon, S., Laxon, S. W., Polyakov, I., Ivanov, V. & Kirillov, S., 3 Maw 2009, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 36, t. L05601Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 161-166Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Turbulent mixing in the seasonally-stratified western Irish Sea: a Thorpe Scale perspective
Stansfield, K. L., Palmer, M. R., Rippeth, T. P. & Simpson, J. H., 19 Tach 2013, Yn: Ocean Science. 10, 6, t. 2141-2155Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Turbulent mixing in a changing Arctic Ocean
Rippeth, T. & Fine, E., Meh 2022, Yn: Oceanography. 35, 2, 11 t.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Turbulent mixing and the formation of an intermediate nepheloid layer above the Siberian continental shelf break
Shultz, K., Buttner, S., Rogge, A., Janout, M. A., Holemann, J. & Rippeth, T., 16 Mai 2021, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. e2021GL092988.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Turbulent Dissipation of Coastal Seas: Response to article: Observations of Biologically Generated Turbulence in a Coastal Inlet. Kunze, E., Dower, J.F., Beveridge, R., & Bartlett, K.P. (2007) Science 313, 5794, 1768-1770
Rippeth, T., Gascoigne, J., Green, M., Inall, M., Palmer, M., Wiles, P. & Simpson, J., 7 Meh 2007, Yn: Science. 313, 5794Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Llythyr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Turbulence and Stratification in Estuaries and Coastal Seas
Stacey, M., Rippeth, T. & Nash, J., 2011, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences: Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science. Elsevier Science, Cyfrol 2. t. 9-35Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 259-272Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 319-350Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Tide-mediated warming of Arctic halocline by Atlantic heat fluxes over rough topography
Rippeth, T. P., Lincoln, B. J., Lenn, Y. D., Green, J. A., Sundfjord, A. & Bacon, S., Maw 2015, Yn: Nature Geoscience. 8, 3, t. 191-194Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Tidally-forced lee waves drive turbulent mixing along the Arctic Ocean margins
Fer, I., Koenig, Z., Koslov, I., Ostrowski, M., Rippeth, T., Padman, L., Bosse, A. & Kolas, E., 28 Awst 2020, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 16, 2020GL088083R.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Tidal mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation from the Last Glacial Maximum.
Green, J. A., Green, C. L., Bigg, G. R., Rippeth, T. P., Scourse, J. D. & Uehara, K., 16 Awst 2009, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 36, 15Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Tidal conversion and mixing poleward of the critical latitude (an Arctic case study)
Rippeth, T., Vlasenko, V., Stashchuk, N., Scannell, B., Green, M., Lincoln, B. & Bacon, S., 28 Rhag 2017, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 24, t. 12349-12357Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. L05602Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The vertical structure of turbulent dissipation in shelf seas
Simpson, J., Crawford, B., Rippeth, T., Campbell, A. & Cheok, J., 1 Awst 1996, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 26, 8, t. 1579-1590Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The structure of dissipation in the western Irish Sea front.
Simpson, J. H., Green, M., Rippeth, T. P., Osborn, T. R. & Nimmo-Smith, W. A., 1 Meh 2009, Yn: Journal of Marine Systems. 77, 4, t. 428-440Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The semi-diurnal cycle of dissipation in a ROFI: model-measurement comparisons.
Simpson, J., Burchard, H., Fisher, N. R. & Rippeth, T., 1 Gorff 2002, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 22, 11-13, t. 1615-1628Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The seasonal cycle of stratification in a Scottish fjord
Rippeth, T., Midgley, R. & Simpson, J., 1995, Mare Nor Symposium on the Ecology of Fjords and Coastal Waters. t. 85-92Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The seasonal cycle of nitrate in the Clyde Sea
Rippeth, T. & Jones, K., 1 Awst 1997, Yn: Journal of Marine Systems. t. 299-310Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The roles of hydrographic and biogeochemical processes in the distribution of dissolved inorganic nutrients in a Scottish sea-loch: Consequences for the spring phytoplankton bloom
Watts, L., Rippeth, T. & Edwards, A., 1 Ion 1998, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. t. 39-50Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The phase lag of turbulent dissipation in tidal flow.
Simpson, J. H., Rippeth, T. P., Campbell, A. R. & Yanagi, T. (Golygydd), 1 Ion 2000, Interactions between Estuaries: Coastal Seas and Shelf Seas. 2000 gol. Terra Scientific Publishing, t. 57-67Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod
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The maintenance of the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in the stratified western Irish Sea
Williams, C., Sharples, J., Green, M., Mahaffey, C. & Rippeth, T., 2013, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography - Fluids and Environment. 3, 1, t. 61-73Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The frequency and duration of episodes of complete vertical mixing in the Clyde Sea
Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1 Meh 1996, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 16, 7, t. 933-947Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 1580-1587Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The deepwater oxygen deficit in stratified shallow seas is mediated by diapycnal mixing
Rippeth, T., Shen, S., Lincoln, B., Scannell, B., Meng, X., Hopkins, J. & Sharples, J., 11 Ebr 2024, Yn: Nature Communications. 15, 3136, 1 t., 15:3136.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 2458-2471Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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The contribution of surface and submesoscale processes to turbulence in the open ocean surface boundary layer
Buckingham, C. E., Lucas, N., Belcher, S. E., Rippeth, T., Grant, A. L. M., Le Sommer, J., Ajayi , A. O. & Naveria Garabato, A. C., Rhag 2019, Yn: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11, 12, t. 4066-4094Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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, OMAE2019-96621Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Cyfraniad i Gynhadledd › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Temporal variation of suspended particulate matter and turbulence in a high energy, tide-stirred, coastal sea: relative contributions of resuspension and disaggregation.
Jago, C., Jones, S. E., Sykes, P. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Tach 2006, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 26, 17-18, t. 2019-2028Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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TIDAL FRICTION IN A SEA WITH 2 EQUAL SEMIDIURNAL TIDAL CONSTITUENTS
Bowers, D., Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1 Chwef 1991, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 11, 2, t. 203-209Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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THE CLYDE SEA - A MODEL OF THE SEASONAL CYCLE OF STRATIFICATION AND MIXING
Simpson, J. & Rippeth, T., 1 Awst 1993, Yn: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 37, 129-144, t. 129-144Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Surface mixed layer deepening through wind shear alignment in a seasonally stratified shallow sea
Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., Awst 2016, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 121, 8, t. 6021-6034Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Spring-neap modulation of internal tide mixing and vertical nitrate fluxes at a shelf edge in summer
Sharples, J., Tweddle, J. F., Green, M., Palmer, M. R., Kim, Y.-N., Hickman, A. E., Holligan, P. M., Moore, C. M., Rippeth, T., Simpson, J. H. & Krivtsov, V., 27 Medi 2007, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 52, 5, t. 1735-1747Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Spatial variability of diapycnal mixing and turbulent dissipation rates in a stagnant fjord basin.
Arneborg, L., Janzen, C., Liljebladh, B., Rippeth, T., Simpson, J. H. & Stigebrandt, A., 1 Gorff 2004, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 34, 7, t. 1679-1691Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Sill dynamics and energy transformation in a jet fjord
Inall, M., Cottier, F., Griffiths, C. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Gorff 2004, Yn: Ocean Dynamics. 54, 3-4, t. 307-314Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Shelf Seas Baroclinic Energy Loss: Pycnocline Mixing and Bottom Boundary Layer Dissipation
Inall, M. E., Toberman, M., Polton, J., Palmer, M. R., Green, M. & Rippeth, T., Awst 2021, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 126, 8, e2020JC016528.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Shear at the Base of the Oceanic Mixed Layer Generated by Wind Shear Alignment
Brannigan, L., Lenn, Y. D., Rippeth, T. P., McDonough, E., Chereskin, T. K. & Sprintall, J., 1 Awst 2013, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 43, 8, t. 1798-1810Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Semi-diurnal tidal ellipse variability in a region of freshwater influence
Verspecht, F., Simpson, J. H. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Medi 2010, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 37, 18, t. 1-4Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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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. 813-823Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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SEASTAR: A Mission to Study Ocean Submesoscale Dynamics and Small-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Processes in Coastal, Shelf and Polar Seas
Gommenginger, C., Chapron, B., Hogg, A., Buckingham, C., Fox-Kemper, B., Eriksson, L., Soulat, F., Ubelmann, C., Ocampo-Torres, F., Nardelli, B. B., Griffin, D., Lopez-Dekker, P., Knudsen, P., Andersen, O., Stenseng, L., Stapleton, N., Perrie, W., Violante-Carvalho, N., Schulz-Stellenfleth, J., Woolf, D., Isern-Fontanet, J., Ardhuin, F., Klein, P., Mouche, A., Pascual, A., Capet, X., Hauser, D., Stoffelen, A., Morrow, R., Aouf, L., Breivik, Ø., Fu, L.-L., Johannessen, J. A., Aksenov, Y., Bricheno, L., Hirschi, J., Martin, A. C. H., Martin, A. P., Nurser, G., Polton, J., Wolf, J., Johnsen, H., Soloviev, A., Jacobs, G. A., Collard, F., Groom, S., Kudryavtsev, V., Wilkin, J., Navarro, V., Babanin, A., Martin, M., Siddorn, J., Saulter, A., Rippeth, T., Emery, B., Maximenko, N., Romeiser, R., Graber, H., Azcarate, A. A., Hughes, C. W., Vandemark, D., Silva, J. D., Leeuwen, P. J. V., Naveira-Garabato, A., Gemmrich, J., Mahadevan, A., Marquez, J., Munro, Y., Doody, S. & Burbidge, G., 13 Awst 2019, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 6, t. 1-7 8 t., 457.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Reynolds stress and turbulent energy production in a tidal channel.
Rippeth, T., Williams, E. & Simpson, J. H., 1 Ebr 2002, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 32, 4, t. 1242-1251Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Residual circulation and stratification in the Liverpool Bay region of freshwater influence.
Verspecht, F., Rippeth, T. P., Simpson, J. H., Souza, A. J., Burchard, H. & Howarth, M. J., 1 Tach 2009, Yn: Ocean Dynamics. 59, 5, t. 765-779Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Processes impacting on stratification in a region of freshwater influence: Application to Liverpool Bay
Verspecht, F., Rippeth, T. P., Howarth, M. J., Souza, A. J., Simpson, J. H. & Burchard, H., 1 Tach 2009, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 114, t. C11022Allbwn 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
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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