Professor Mattias Green

Professor in Physical Oceanography

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Room: 202 Craig Mair
Phone: 01248 382893
E-mail: m.green@bangor.ac.uk
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I graduated in Physical Oceanography from Gothenburg University in 1999 and undertook my PhD in physical oceanography at the same university between 2008-2004. I stayed in Gothenburg as a research associate for a further year before moving to Bangor to start as a post-doctoral researcher on the structure of turbulence in shelf seas.  In 2008 I was awarded a NERC Advanced Fellowship investigating the effects of sea-level change on the dissipation of tidal energy in the past, present and future and how that may impact on climate. In 2013 Bangor offered me position as Senior Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, in 2016 I was promoted to Reader, and in 2019 I was awarded a Person Chair in physical oceanography.

I am a physical oceanographer using models and observations to explore how the tides interact with other components of the Earth system and how these interactions change over long timescales. I especially focus on how tidally driven mixing influence large-scale ocean circulation and climate; effects of sea-level change (on short time scales) and continental drift (on geological time scales) on the tides; ice-ocean-climate interactions and how melting ice-sheets will affect the earth system; the influence of the tides to allow the ocean to evolve and host life, including tidal dynamics during extinction events. 

 

 

  1. 2010
  2. Published

    Ocean tides and resonance

    Green, M., Oct 2010, In: Ocean Dynamics. 60, 5, p. 1243-1253

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    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 Feb 2010, In: Continental Shelf Research. 30, 2, p. 214-225

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. 2009
  5. Published

    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 Aug 2009, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 36, 15

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    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 Jun 2009, In: Journal of Marine Systems. 77, 4, p. 428-440

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. 2008
  8. Published

    Boils and turbulence in a weakly stratified shallow tidal sea.

    Thorpe, S. A., Green, J. A., Simpson, J. H., Osborn, T. R. & Nimmo-Smith, W. A., 1 Aug 2008, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 38, 8, p. 1711-1730

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Internal waves, baroclinic energy fluxes and mixing at the European shelf edge.

    Green, J. A., Simpson, J. H., Legg, S. & Palmer, M. R., 30 Apr 2008, In: Continental Shelf Research. 28, 7, p. 937-950

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 2007
  11. Published

    Baroclinic wave drag from two closely spaced sills in a narrow fjord as inferred from basin water mixing.

    Johnsson, M., Green, J. A. & Stigebrandt, A., 3 Nov 2007, In: Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. 112, C11, p. C11002

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    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 Sept 2007, In: Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 52, 5, p. 1735-1747

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published
  14. 2006
  15. Published

    Physical oceanography and water exchange in the Northern Kvark Strait.

    Green, J. A., Liljebladh, B. & Omstedt, A., 1 Apr 2006, In: Continental Shelf Research. 26, 6, p. 721-732

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review