Professor Yueng-Djern Lenn

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311 Craig Mair 
School of Ocean Sciences
Bangor University, Wales
Menai Bridge LL59 5AB
UK
 
tel:+44 1248388658
e-mail:y.lenn AT bangor.ac.uk
 
I am a polar physical oceanographer and my interests lie in understanding the physical processes integral to ocean overturning that impact climate in the polar oceans. My Southern Ocean research has focused on Drake Passage eddy heat and momentum fluxes, the surface Ekman layer that constitute the upper limb of the overturning circulation, and diapycnal mixing driving water mass transformation in the thermocline at the Antarctic continental slope. My Arctic research focuses on water mass transformations occurring in the continental shelf seas and along the Arctic continental slope that link the Arctic to the global overturning circulation, most recently investigating the role of different mixing mechanisms (i.e. double diffusion and turbulent mixing drive by tides or winds) in fluxing heat and other properties from the warm Atlantic Water into overlying Arctic halocline and mixed layer.   
 
I am also the schools liason for the School of Ocean Sciences, co-ordinating most school visits to Ocean Sciences by schools as well as providing support for colleagues who visit schools.  Other outreach events I support include school STEM Careers Fairs and other Science Fairs.  These activities include events organised in partnership with STEMCymru and other similar organisations seeking to promote STEM in Wales and beyond. 
 
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  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    30-Second Oceans

    Lenn, Y-D. (gol.) & Green, M. (gol.), 21 Maw 2021, The Ivy Press. 160 t. (30-Second....)

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    A warm Jet in a cold ocean

    MacKinnon, J., Lenn, Y-D., Simmons, H. L., Hargrove, J., Thomson, J., Peacock, T., Alford, M. H., Barton, B. I., Boury, S., Brenner, S. D., Couto, N., Danielson, S. L., Fine, E. C., Graber, H. C., Guthrie, J., Hopkins, J. E., Jayne, S. R., Jeon, C., Klenz, T., Lee, C. M., Lucas, A. J., Lund, B., Mahaffey, C., Norman, L., Rainville, L., Smith, M. M., Thomas, L. N., Torres-Valdes, S. & Wood, K. R., 23 Ebr 2021, Yn: Nature Communications. 12, 1, t. 2418

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    An Ice-Ocean Model Study of the Mid-2000s Regime Change in the Barents Sea

    Barton, B., Lique, C., Lenn, Y-D. & Talandier, C., 3 Tach 2022, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 127, 11, e2021JC018280.

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    Can Drake Passage Observations Match Ekman's Classic Theory?

    Polton, J. A., Lenn, Y., Elipot, S., Chereskin, T. K. & Sprintall, J., 1 Awst 2013, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 43, 8, t. 1733-1740

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    Eastern Arctic Ocean diapycnal heat fluxes through large double-diffusive steps

    Polyakov, I. V., Padman, L., Lenn, Y-D., Pnyushkov, A., Rember, R. & Ivanov, V. V., 4 Ion 2019, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49, 1, t. 227-246

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    Eddies and the distribution of Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Arctic Ocean

    von Appen, W., Baumann, T. M., Janout, M., Koldunov, N., Lenn, Y-D., Pickart, R., Scott, R. & Wang, Q., 27 Ebr 2022, Yn: Oceanography. 35, 2

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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. 169–192

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    Improving estimates of the Antarctic circumpolar current streamlines in Drake Passage.

    Lenn, Y. D., Chereskin, T. K. & Sprintall, J., 1 Mai 2008, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38, 5, t. 1000-1010

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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.

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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. 531-547

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    Introducing the Oceans

    Lenn, Y-D., Nehama, F. & Mavume, A., 13 Medi 2022, Journey Through Tides. Green, M. & Duarte, J. (gol.). Elsevier

    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion CynhadleddPennod

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    Kara Sea freshwater transport through Vilkitsky Strait: Variability, forcing, and further pathways toward the western Arctic Ocean from a model and observations

    Janout, M. A., Aksenov, Y., Holemann, J. A., Rabe, B., Schauer, U., Polyakov, I. V., Bacon, S., Coward, A. C., Karcher, M., Lenn, Y., Kassens, H. & Timokhov, L., 18 Gorff 2015, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 120, 7, t. 4925-4944

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    Mean Jets, mesoscale variability and eddy momentum fluxes in the surface layer of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage

    Lenn, Y-D., Chereskin, T., Sprintall, J. & Firing, E., 1 Ion 2007, Yn: Journal of Marine Research. 65, 1, t. 27 58 t.

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    Mixing in the Arctic Ocean

    Lenn, Y-D., Fer, I., Timmermans, M-L. & MacKinnon, J. A., 5 Hyd 2021, Ocean Mixing: Drivers, Mechanisms, Impacts. Meredith, M. & Garabato, A. (gol.). Elsevier, t. 275-299

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    Mooring-Based Observations of Double-Diffusive Staircases over the Laptev Sea Slope

    Polyakov, I. V., Pnyushkov, A. V., Rember, R., Ivanov, V. V., Lenn, Y. D., Padman, L. & Carmack, E. C., 1 Ion 2012, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 42, 1, t. 95-109

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    Near-Surface Eddy Heat and Momentum Fluxes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passag

    Lenn, Y-D., Chereskin, T., Sprintall, J. & McClean, J., 1 Gorff 2011, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41, 7, t. 1385-1407

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    Observations of Ekman currents in the southern ocean.

    Lenn, Y. D. & Chereskin, T. K., 1 Maw 2009, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39, 3, t. 768-779

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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. 7950-7956

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    Observed atlantification of the Barents Sea causes the Polar Front to limit the expansion of winter sea ice

    Barton, B., Lenn, Y-D. & Lique, C., 15 Awst 2018, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography.

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  20. Cyhoeddwyd

    On the Along-Slope Heat Loss of the Boundary Current in the Eastern Arctic Ocean

    Schulz, K., Janout, M. A., Lenn, Y-D., Castillo, E. R., Polyakov, I., Mohrholz, V., Tippenhauer, S., Reeve, K., Holemann, J., Rabe, B. & Vredenborg, M., Chwef 2021, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 126, 2, e2020JC016375.

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    On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Roemmich, D., Alford, M. H., Claustre, H., Johnson, K., King, B., Moum, J., Oke, P., Owens, W. B., Pouliquen, S., Purkey, S., Scanderbeg, M., Suga, T., Wijffels, S., Zilberman, N., Bakker, D., Baringer, M., Belbeoch, M., Bittig, H. C., Boss, E., Calil, P., Carse, F., Carval, T., Chai, F., Conchubhair, D. Ó., d’Ortenzio, F., Dall’Olmo, G., Desbruyeres, D., Fennel, K., Fer, I., Ferrari, R., Forget, G., Freeland, H., Fujiki, T., Gehlen, M., Greenan, B., Hallberg, R., Hibiya, T., Hosoda, S., Jayne, S., Jochum, M., Johnson, G. C., Kang, K., Kolodziejczyk, N., Körtzinger, A., Traon, P-Y. L., Lenn, Y-D., Maze, G., Mork, K. A., Morris, T., Nagai, T., Nash, J., Garabato, A. N., Olsen, A., Pattabhi, R. R., Prakash, S., Riser, S., Schmechtig, C., Schmid, C., Shroyer, E., Sterl, A., Sutton, P., Talley, L., Tanhua, T., Thierry, V., Thomalla, S., Toole, J., Troisi, A., Trull, T. W., Turton, J., Velez-Belchi, P. J., Walczowski, W., Wang, H., Wanninkhof, R., Waterhouse, A. F., Waterman, S., Watson, A., Wilson, C., Wong, A. P. S., Xu, J. & Yasuda, I., 2 Awst 2019, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 6, 439

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    Semidiurnal Tides on the Laptev Sea Shelf with Implications for Shear and Vertical Mixing

    Janout, M. A. & Lenn, Y. D., 8 Ion 2014, Yn: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 44, 1, t. 202-219

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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. 1798-1810

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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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  25. Cyhoeddwyd

    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. 191-194

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  26. Cyhoeddwyd

    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. L05601

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  27. Cyhoeddwyd

    Water mass properties derived from satellite observations in the Barents Sea

    Barton, B., Lique, C. & Lenn, Y-D., Awst 2020, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 8, e2019JC015449.

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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. 9749-9756

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