Professor Tom Rippeth

Professor of Physical Oceanography

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

Turbulence and Mixing

High Latitude Physical Oceanography

Ocean Circulation and Climate

 

  1. Published

    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 Jan 2002, In: Continental Shelf Research. 22, 2, p. 247-265

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas: a shifting paradigm.

    Rippeth, T. P., 1 Dec 2005, In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 363, 1837, p. 2837-2854

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    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 Jun 2007, In: Science. 313, 5794

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterpeer-review

  4. Published

    Internal Waves ...... or something completely different

    Rippeth, T. P., 1 Jan 2000, In: Ocean Challenge. 9, 3, p. 32-36

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    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 Dec 2008, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 35, 24, p. L24604

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Thermocline mixing in summer stratified continental shelf seas.

    Rippeth, T., Palmer, M., Simpson, J. H., Fisher, N. & Sharples, J., 1 Mar 2005, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 32, 5, p. L05602

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Vertical mixing in seasonally stratified continental shelf seas

    Rippeth, T. P., 1 Jan 2005, p. 25-30.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. 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 publicationArticle

  9. Published

    Turbulent mixing in a changing Arctic Ocean

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

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  11. Published

    The cycle of turbulent dissipation in the presence of tidal straining.

    Rippeth, T. P., Fisher, N. R. & Simpson, J. H., 1 Aug 2001, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 31, 8, p. 2458-2471

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Density and flow structure in the Clyde Sea front

    Rippeth, T., Kasai, A. & Simpson, J., 1 Nov 1999, In: Continental Shelf Research. 19, 4, p. 1833-1848

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Diurnal signals in vertical motions on the Hebridean Shelf

    Rippeth, T. & Simpson, J., 1 Nov 1998, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 43, 7, p. 1690-1696

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Dissipation of Tidal Energy and Associated Mixing in a Wide Fjord

    Rippeth, T. & Inall, M. E., 1 Sept 2002, In: Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2, 3, p. 219-240

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. 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 proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

  16. Published

    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 Sept 2003, In: Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33, 9, p. 1889-1901

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  18. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  19. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    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 May 2001, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 46, 3, p. 486-496

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    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 Jan 2001, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 46, 3, p. 486-496

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. 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

  23. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  24. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  25. 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 journalArticlepeer-review