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Professor Tom Rippeth

Professor of Physical Oceanography

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ORCID: 0000-0002-9286-0176

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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

 

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  1. 2024
  2. Published

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

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

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  3. Published

    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 Apr 2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 3136, 1 p., 15:3136.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  4. Published

    A seminal paper on shelf-sea fronts: Insights that led to a new branch of physical oceanography

    Rippeth, T., 1 Jan 2024, Ocean Challenge, 27, 1, p. 12-16.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  5. Published

    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 Jan 2024, In: Progress in Oceanography. 220

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  6. 2023
  7. Published

    An ‘extreme’ heatwave has hit the seas around the UK and Ireland – here’s what’s going on

    Rippeth, T., 23 Jun 2023, The Conversation.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean

    Rippeth, T., 1 Sept 2022, Ocean Challenge, 26, 1, p. 17-21 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  10. Published

    Turbulence and Coherent Structure Characterisation in a Tidally Energetic Channel

    Lucas, N., Austin, M., Rippeth, T., Powell, B. & Wakonigg, P., Jul 2022, In: Renewable Energy. 194, p. 259-272

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  11. Published

    Turbulent mixing in a changing Arctic Ocean

    Rippeth, T. & Fine, E., Jun 2022, In: Oceanography. 35, 2, 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  12. Published

    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 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 830927.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  13. Published

    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 Mar 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 5, e2021GL096152.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  14. Published

    Wind turbines can breathe new life into our warming seas

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

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  15. Published

    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 Feb 2022, In: Ocean Science. 18, 1, p. 169–192

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  16. 2021
  17. Published

    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., Aug 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 126, 8, e2020JC016528.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  18. Published

    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 May 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. e2021GL092988.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  19. 2020
  20. Published

    Tides, the Moon and the Kaleidoscope of Ocean Mixing

    Rippeth, T. & Green, M., 16 Nov 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. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, Vol. 58. p. 319-350

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  21. Published

    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 Sept 2020, In: Journal of Climate. 33, 18, p. 8107-8123

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  22. Published

    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 Aug 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 16, e2020GL089469.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  23. Published

    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 Aug 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 16, 2020GL088083R.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  24. Published

    Celebrating 50 years of sea-going science on the RV Prince Madog

    Van Landeghem, K. & Rippeth, T., 1 Feb 2020, Ocean Challenge, 24, 1, p. 30-39.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  25. 2019
  26. Published

    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., Dec 2019, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11, 12, p. 4066-4094

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  27. Published

    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 Nov 2019, ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, OMAE2019-96621

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  28. Published

    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., Nov 2019, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 49, 11, p. 2961-2978

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  29. Published

    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 Aug 2019, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 6, p. 1-7 8 p., 457.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  30. 2017
  31. Published

    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 Dec 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 24, p. 12349-12357

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  32. Published

    Global tidal impacts of large-scale ice-sheet collapses

    Wilmes, S.-B., Green, M., Gomez, M., Lau, H. & Rippeth, T., Nov 2017, In: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 122, 11, p. 8354-8370

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  33. Published

    Correcting surface wave bias in structure function estimates of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate

    Scannell, B., Rippeth, T., Simpson, J., Polton, J. & Hopkins, J., Oct 2017, In: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 34, 10, p. 2257-2273

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  34. 2016
  35. Published

    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 Sept 2016, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 18, p. 9749-9756

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  36. Published

    Surface mixed layer deepening through wind shear alignment in a seasonally stratified shallow sea

    Lincoln, B., Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., Aug 2016, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 121, 8, p. 6021-6034

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  37. 2015
  38. Published

    Ocean nutrient pathways associated with passage of a storm

    Rumyantseva, A., Lucas, N., Rippeth, T. P., Henson, S., Martin, A. & Painter, S., 16 Jul 2015, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28, 8, p. 1179–1189

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  39. Published

    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., Mar 2015, In: Nature Geoscience. 8, 3, p. 191-194

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  40. 2014
  41. Published

    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 Nov 2014, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 41, 22, p. 7950-7956

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  42. Published

    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 Jun 2014, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 119, 6, p. 3868-3882

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  43. Published

    Measuring Turbulent Dissipation Using a Tethered ADCP

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

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  44. 2013
  45. Published

    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 Nov 2013, In: Ocean Science. 10, 6, p. 2141-2155

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  46. Published

    Wind-driven nutrient pulses to the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in seasonally stratified shelf seas

    Williams, C., Sharples, J., Mahaffey, C. & Rippeth, T., 28 Oct 2013, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 40, 20, p. 5467-5472 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  47. Published

    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 Aug 2013, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 43, 8, p. 1798-1810

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  48. Published

    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 Jan 2013, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 40, 1, p. 161-166

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  49. Published

    The maintenance of the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in the stratified western Irish Sea

    Williams, C., Sharples, J., Green, M., Mahaffey, C. & Rippeth, T., 2013, In: Limnology and Oceanography - Fluids and Environment. 3, 1, p. 61-73

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  50. 2011
  51. Published

    Processes contributing to the evolution and destruction of stratification in the Liverpool Bay ROFI

    Howlett, E., Rippeth, T. & Howarth, M. J., 20 May 2011, In: Ocean Dynamics. 61, p. 1403–1419

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  52. Published

    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 Mar 2011, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 41, 3, p. 531-547

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  53. Published

    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, Vol. 2. p. 9-35

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  54. 2010
  55. Published

    Semi-diurnal tidal ellipse variability in a region of freshwater influence

    Verspecht, F., Simpson, J. H. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Sept 2010, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 37, 18, p. 1-4

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  56. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  57. 2009
  58. Published

    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 Nov 2009, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 114, p. C11022

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  59. Published

    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 Nov 2009, In: Ocean Dynamics. 59, 5, p. 765-779

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  60. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  61. Published

    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 Jun 2009, In: Continental Shelf Research. 29, 13, p. 1580-1587

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  62. Published

    Do observations adequately resolve the natural variability of oceanic turbulence?

    Moum, J. N. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Jun 2009, In: Journal of Marine Systems. 77, 4, p. 409-417

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  63. 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 journal › Article › peer-review

  64. Published

    Generation of bulk shear spikes in shallow stratified tidal seas.

    Burchard, H. & Rippeth, T. P., 1 Apr 2009, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39, 4, p. 969-985

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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