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Dr Jeff Polton

Job Title
Group Head of Ocean-Shelf Processes
Site
Liverpool

Biography

  • since 2025: Long-Term Visiting Scientist at Climate Centre Research Singapore (Apr 25 - May 28)
  • since 2007: National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK.
  • 2004 – 2007: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
  • 2002 – 2004: Research Fellow, University of Reading Met. Dept.
  • 1998 – 2002: PhD, University of Reading Met. Dept., (Advisor: Prof. Marshall).
  • 1995 – 1998: University of Cambridge, MA, Mathematics.

Research Themes include:

High Resolution Regional Modelling: Advances in simulation of macrotidal shelf seas for operational models.
Wave processes and turbulence: Turbulence modelling, observation and parameterisation development to improve simulation of the ocean.
Shelf Sea response to changing seas: Impact of changing climate on shelf seas.
Dynamical Ecology: Using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models to investigate the dispersal of commercially or ecologically significant.

Research Interest Keywords include:

Tides; internal tides; ocean dynamics; shelf sea dynamics; tidal boundary layer;Wave induced mixing; Langmuir processes; Large Eddy Simulation techniques;
Regional modelling; regional model configuration; regional model assessment 

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Committee Memberships

External Committees

Active
  • Copernicus Marine: Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee member (since Dec 2024)
  • NEMO Community Engagement Working Group - since Oct 2021
  • Member of Tides Working Group in NEMO consortium (since July 2021)
  • Joint Marine Modelling Programme (JMMP, a Met Office / NERC partnership): Management group member since Dec 13 and NOC project lead Dec 14-Aug17 (as JCOMP). Since Aug 17 JMMP coastal lead.
Previously
  • Exec board member for Oceans Pillar of NOC, Liverpool, Manchester Doctoral Training Partnership, and formerly NOC-Liverpool postgraduate admissions and affairs tutor (since Nov 13 and Jun 10, respectively - Jun 18).
  • Working group management board between the School of Earth Science, University Liverpool & NOC (Mar 16 - Feb 20).
 

Projects

Links to UKRI projects

Active projects

CANARI. (Climate Change in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK).
SEA-COAST. (Understanding and Prediction of Compound Ocean-Atmosphere Storms in the Tropics). WCSSP-Southeast Asia
  • 1 May 2025 - 31 Mar 2028
MISSING LINK. NERC Pushing the Frontiers.
  • 3 Apr 2023 - 2 Apr 2026
Huracan. (HUrricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural disasters).
Surge model maintenance.
  • 1 Apr 2023 - 31 Mar 2027
 

As Principal Investigator (Highlights from last ~5 years):

  • 2024 - 2026: Development of Arctic regional ocean-sea ice model configurations (multiple projects with Met Office): PI: £336k
  • 2023: NOC contribution to UK Marine and Climate Advisory Service (UKMCAS). PI: £360k
  • 2022: PISCES. (Processes drIving Submarine Canyon fluxES). NE/W00528X/1. NOC PI: £191k
  • 2021: NOWMAPSIII. Delivery partner for NorthWest Shelf element of the Copernicus Marine Service (Subcontract to the Met Office). PI: £181k
  • 2020: Diagnostic and Assessment toolbox for kilometric scale regional models. Newton Fund: WCSSP-India. PI: £200k

As Co-Investigator (Highlights from last ~5 years):

  • 2024: Marine Autonomous Systems Digital Twin (MAS-DT) - A Digital Twin to maximise the value of ocean glider observations. NERC/Met Office: Twinning Capability for the Natural Environment (TWINE) call. co-I: £600k
  • 2024: WCSSP IND24 NOC 1.9 Relocatable Regional Ocean Model Support. co-I: £50k
  • 2023: MISSING LINK. NERC Pushing the Frontiers. NE/X014975/1. co-I: £880k

Historic projects include:

  • 2018: BoBEAS (Bay of Bengal and East Arabian Sea). Newton Fund: WCSSP-India. PI: £73k
  • 2018: anyTide-global. Commonwealth Marine Economy NOC subproject. PI: £38k
  • 2018: Machine Learning for Marine Energy Resource Assessment. NERC Pathfinder (NE/S005811/1). PI: £10.9k
  • 2017: ACCORD (Addressing Challenges of Coastal Communities through Ocean Research for Developing Economies). NERC directed RP: NC ODA. (NE/R000123/1). co-I £3.6M
  • 2017: CAMPUS (Combining Autonomous observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding Shelf seas). NERC directed RP: Autonomous Observing. (NE/R006822/1). co-I £371k(£501k)
  • 2017: C-RISC. (Madagascar storm surge modelling). NE/R009406/1: co-I: £101k
  • 2017: anyTide for Solomon Islands. Commonwealth Marine Economy NOC subproject. £81.7k
  • ORCHESTRA (Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports) Directed RP (NE/N018095/1). £2.6M(£7.1M).
  • anyTide: Tidal predictions anywhere along the UK coast that can also be used offline via the use of bookmarks (formerly available via the App Store)
  • North Sea Interactive: A decision-support tool to guide environmental monitoring by the oil and gas industry
  • OSMOSIS: Ocean Surface Mixing, Ocean Submesoscale Interaction Study
  • FASTNEt: Fluxes Across Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic. Consortium funded from the NERC Ocean Shelf Edge Exchange Research Programme.
  • PycnMix: Pycnocline Mixing in Shelf Seas
  • QICS: Quantifying and Monitoring Potential Ecosystem Impacts of Geological Carbon Storage
  • SSB: Shelf Sea Biogeochemistry

Roles Provided

  • Group Head of Ocean-Shelf Processes at the National Oceanography Centre
  • Coastal Ocean theme Lead for the UK Joint Marine Modelling Programme (JMMP), a collaboration between the Met Office, British Antarctic Survey, National Oceanography Centre and Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling.
  • Long-Term Visiting Scientist at Climate Centre Research Singapore (Apr 25 - May 28)
  • National Tidal and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF) - co-chair since Mar 2021
  • Honorary Sen. Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool.
  • Visiting Academic at University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences (2025 – Sept 2030)
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Publications

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Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Katavouta, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Hopkins, Joanne; Amoudry, Laurent O.; Appendini, Christian M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6044-3351; Arneborg, Lars ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-8110; Arnold, Alex; Artioli, Yuri; Aucan, Jerome ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9883-0082; Berx, Barbara; Cagigal, Laura; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Denamiel, Cléa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5099-1143; Galli, Giovanni; Graham, Jennifer A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1950-5266; Jacobs, Zoe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-0699; Jevrejeva, Svetlana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-4665; Kamranzad, Bahareh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-6007; Langlais, Clothilde ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-7678; Larsen, Morten Andreas Dahl; Lira-Loarca, Andrea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-6684; Lyddon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4254-3049; Mathis, Moritz; Melet, Angélique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-8159; Méndez, Fernando; Muis, Sanne; Myers, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4514-2654; O’Donovan, Mairéad; Olbert, Agnieszka Indiana; Palmer, Matthew D.; Phillips, Lachlan; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Buil, Mercedes Pozo; Robins, Peter; Ruju, Andrea; Schlaefer, Jodie A.; Senatore, Alfonso ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9716-3532; Siedlecki, Samantha; Tinker, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3160-7000; Verri, Giorgia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7561-618X; Vilibić, Ivica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0753-5775; Wei, Xiaoyan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8407-6958; Pinardi, Nadia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4765-0775. 2025 Future climate projections in the global coastal ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 235, 103497. 1, pp. 10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103497

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2025

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Buck, Justin J.H.; Lopez, Alvaro Lorenzo; Hawes, Nick; Allsup, Benjamin; Dobra, Tom; Ferreira, Tobias; Kokkinaki, Alexandra; Morris, Ashley; Lacerda, Bruno; Patmore, Ryan; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Williams, Charlotte; Woodward, Stephen. 2024 A Marine Autonomous Systems Digital Twin; Bringing value to researchers, data users and vehicle operations. In: OCEANS 2024 - Halifax, Halifax, NS, Canada, 23 - 26 September 2024. IEEE, 1-4.

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2024

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Jevrejeva, Svetlana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-4665; Calafat, Francisco M.; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Hirschi, Joël J.‐M.; Mecking, Jennifer V.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Sinha, Bablu; Wise, Anthony; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477. 2024 Challenges, advances and opportunities in regional sea level projections: The role of ocean‐shelf dynamics. Earth's Future, 12 (8). 10.1029/2024ef004886

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2024

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Bernier, Natacha B.; Hemer, Mark; Mori, Nobuhito; Appendini, Christian M.; Breivik, Oyvind; de Camargo, Ricardo; Casas-Prat, Mercè; Duong, Trang M.; Haigh, Ivan D.; Howard, Tom; Hernaman, Vanessa; Huizy, Oleksandr; Irish, Jennifer L.; Kirezci, Ebru; Kohno, Nadao; Lee, Jun-Whan; McInnes, Kathleen L.; Meyer, Elke M.I.; Marcos, Marta; Marsooli, Reza; Martin Oliva, Ariadna; Menendez, Melisa; Moghimi, Saeed; Muis, Sanne; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Pringle, William J.; Ranasinghe, Roshanka; Saillour, Thomas; Smith, Grant; Tadesse, Michael Getachew; Swail, Val; Tomoya, Shimura; Voukouvalas, Evangelos; Wahl, Thomas; Wang, Pengcheng; Weisse, Ralf; Westerink, Joannes J.; Young, Ian; Zhang, Y. Joseph. 2024 Storm surges and extreme sea levels: Review, establishment of model intercomparison and coordination of surge climate projection efforts (SurgeMIP). Weather and Climate Extremes, 45, 100689. 10.1016/j.wace.2024.100689

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2024

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2024

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2023

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2023

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Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Harle, James; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Katavouta, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Partridge, Dale; Jardine, Jenny; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Rulent, Julia; Wise, Anthony; Hutchinson, Katherine; Byrne, David; Bruciaferri, Diego; O'Dea, Enda; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Mathiot, Pierre; Coward, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9111-7700; Yool, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Palmieri, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5243; Lessin, Gennadi; Mayorga-Adame, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; Le Guennec, Valerie; Arnold, Alex; Rousset, Clement. 2023 Reproducible and relocatable regional ocean modelling: Fundamentals and practices. Geoscientific Model Development. 10.5194/gmd-2022-217

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2023

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McCarthy, G.D.; Burmeister, K.; Cunningham, S.A.; Düsterhus, A.; Frajka-Williams, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8773-7838; Graham, J.A.; Hodge, K.R.; Holliday, N.P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-8002; Inall, M.; Jackson, L.C.; Menary, M.B.; Moat, B.I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-7779; Moffa-Sanchez, P.; Oltmanns, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4938; Polton, J.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Rabe, B.; Robson, J.; Thornalley, D.J.R.. 2023 Climate change impacts on ocean circulation relevant to the UK and Ireland. Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership.

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2023

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Monograph

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2022

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Tinker, Jonathan; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Robins, Peter E.; Lewis, Matthew J.; O’Neill, Clare K.. 2022 The influence of tides on the North West European shelf winter residual circulation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 10.3389/fmars.2022.847138

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2022

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2022

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Castillo, Juan Manuel; Lewis, Huw W.; Mishra, Akhilesh; Mitra, Ashis; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Brereton, Ashley; Saulter, Andrew; Arnold, Alex; Berthou, Segolene; Clark, Douglas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1348-7922; Crook, Julia; Das, Ananda; Edwards, John; Feng, Xiangbo; Gupta, Ankur; Joseph, Sudheer; Klingaman, Nicholas; Momin, Imranali; Pequignet, Christine; Sanchez, Claudio; Saxby, Jennifer; Valdivieso da Costa, Maria. 2022 The Regional Coupled Suite (RCS-IND1): application of a flexible regional coupled modelling framework to the Indian region at kilometre scale. Geoscientific Model Development, 15 (10). 4193-4223. 10.5194/gmd-15-4193-2022

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2022

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Article

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Dorrell, Robert M.; Lloyd, Charlie J.; Lincoln, Ben J.; Rippeth, Tom P.; Taylor, John R.; Caulfield, Colm-cille P.; Sharples, Jonathan; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Scannell, Brian D.; Greaves, Deborah M.; Hall, Rob A.; Simpson, John H.. 2022 Anthropogenic mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas by offshore wind farm infrastructure. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. 10.3389/fmars.2022.830927

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2022

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Akpinar, Anıl; Palmer, Matthew; Inall, Mark; Berx, Barbara; Polton, Jeffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2022 Locally modified winds regulate circulation in a semi‐enclosed shelf sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (3). 10.1029/2021JC018248

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2022

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2022

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Huthnance, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-2896; Hopkins, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-3671; Berx, Bee; Dale, Andy; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Hosegood, Philip; Inall, Mark; Jones, Sam; Loveday, Benjamin R.; Miller, Peter I.; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Porter, Marie; Spingys, Carl. 2022 Ocean shelf exchange, NW European shelf seas: Measurements, estimates and comparisons. Progress in Oceanography, 202, 102760. 10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102760

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2022

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Wise, Anthony; Harle, James; Bruciaferri, Diego; O’Dea, Enda; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2021 The effect of vertical coordinates on the accuracy of a shelf sea model. Ocean Modelling, 170. 101935. 10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101935

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2021

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Trevail, Alice M.; Green, Jonathan A.; Bolton, Mark; Daunt, Francis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-3388; Harris, Stephanie M.; Miller, Peter I.; Newton, Stephen; Owen, Ellie; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Robertson, Gail; Sharples, Jonathan; Patrick, Samantha C.. 2021 Environmental heterogeneity promotes individual specialisation in habitat selection in a widely distributed seabird. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90 (12). 2875-2887. 10.1111/1365-2656.13588

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2021

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2021

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Inall, Mark E.; Toberman, Matthew; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Palmer, Matthew R.; Green, J. A. Mattias; Rippeth, Tom P.. 2021 Shelf seas baroclinic energy loss: pycnocline mixing and bottom boundary layer dissipation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126 (8). 10.1029/2020JC016528

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2021

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Bruciaferri, Diego; Harle, James; Wise, Anthony; O'Dea, Enda; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2021 The impact of the vertical discretization scheme on the accuracy of a model of the European north-west shelf. In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.

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2021

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2021

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2020

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Article

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2020

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Lucas, Natasha Sarah; Grant, Alan Laurence Michael; Rippeth, Tom; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Palmer, Matthew; Brannigan, Liam; Belcher, Stephen E.. 2019 Evolution of oceanic near surface stratification in response to an autumn storm. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49 (11). 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0007.1

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2019

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Article

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Pearson, Brodie C.; Grant, Alan L. M.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2019 Pressure–strain terms in Langmuir turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 880. 5-31. 10.1017/jfm.2019.701

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2019

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Article

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Luneva, Maria V.; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Holt, Jason T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Inall, Mark E.; Kozlov, Igor E.; Palmer, Matthew R.; Toberman, Matthew; Zubkova, Evgenia V.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2019 Challenging vertical turbulence mixing schemes in a tidally energetic environment: 1. 3‐D shelf‐sea model assessment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (8). 6360-6387. 10.1029/2018JC014307

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2019

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Article

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Tonani, Marina; Sykes, Peter; King, Robert R.; McConnell, Niall; Péquignet, Anne-Christine; O'Dea, Enda; Graham, Jennifer A.; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Siddorn, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8868. 2019 The impact of a new high-resolution ocean model on the Met Office North-West European Shelf forecasting system. Ocean Science, 15 (4). 1133-1158. 10.5194/os-15-1133-2019

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2019

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Article

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Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; Chapron, Bertrand; Hogg, Andy; Buckingham, Christian; Fox-Kemper, Baylor; Eriksson, Leif; Soulat, Francois; Ubelmann, Clément; Ocampo-Torres, Francisco; Nardelli, Bruno Buongiorno; Griffin, David; Lopez-Dekker, Paco; Knudsen, Per; Andersen, Ole; Stenseng, Lars; Stapleton, Neil; Perrie, William; Violante-Carvalho, Nelson; Schulz-Stellenfleth, Johannes; Woolf, David; Isern-Fontanet, Jordi; Ardhuin, Fabrice; Klein, Patrice; Mouche, Alexis; Pascual, Ananda; Capet, Xavier; Hauser, Daniele; Stoffelen, Ad; Morrow, Rosemary; Aouf, Lotfi; Breivik, Øyvind; Fu, Lee-Lueng; Johannessen, Johnny A.; Aksenov, Yevgeny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-3434; Bricheno, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Hirschi, Joel; Martin, Adrien C. H.; Martin, Adrian P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612; Nurser, George; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Wolf, Judith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8221; Johnsen, Harald; Soloviev, Alexander; Jacobs, Gregg A.; Collard, Fabrice; Groom, Steve; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Wilkin, John; Navarro, Victor; Babanin, Alex; Martin, Matthew; Siddorn, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8868; Saulter, Andrew; Rippeth, Tom; Emery, Bill; Maximenko, Nikolai; Romeiser, Roland; Graber, Hans; Azcarate, Aida Alvera; Hughes, Chris W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9355-0233; Vandemark, Doug; Silva, Jose da; Leeuwen, Peter Jan Van; Naveira-Garabato, Alberto; Gemmrich, Johannes; Mahadevan, Amala; Marquez, Jose; Munro, Yvonne; Doody, Sam; Burbidge, Geoff. 2019 SEASTAR: A mission to study ocean submesoscale dynamics and small-scale atmosphere-ocean processes in coastal, shelf and polar seas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00457

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2019

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Article

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Bayhaqi, Ahmad; Lenn, Yueng-Djern; Surinati, Dewi; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Nur, Muhamad; Corvianawatie, Corry; Purwandana, Adi. 2019 The variability of Indonesian throughflow in Sumba Strait and its linkage to the climate events. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 16 (4). 118-133. 10.3844/ajassp.2019.118.133

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2019

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James, M. K.; Polton, J. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Brereton, A. R.; Howell, K. L.; Nimmo-Smith, W. A. M.; Knights, A. M.. 2019 Reverse engineering field-derived vertical distribution profiles to infer larval swimming behaviors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (24). 11818-11823. 10.1073/pnas.1900238116

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2019

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Article

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Trevail, Alice M.; Green, Jonathan A.; Sharples, Jonathan; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Miller, Peter I.; Daunt, Francis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-3388; Owen, Ellie; Bolton, Mark; Colhoun, Kendrew; Newton, Stephen; Robertson, Gail; Patrick, Samantha C.. 2019 Environmental heterogeneity decreases reproductive success via effects on foraging behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1904), 20190795. 10, pp. 10.1098/rspb.2019.0795

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2019

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Article

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Brereton, Ashley; Tejada-Martínez, Andrés E.; Palmer, Matthew R.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250. 2019 The perturbation method - A novel large-eddy simulation technique to model realistic turbulence: Application to tidal flow. Ocean Modelling, 135. 31-39. 10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.01.007

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2019

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Fox, Alan D.; Corne, David W.; Mayorga Adame, Claudia Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Henry, Lea-Anne; Roberts, J. Murray. 2019 An efficient multi-objective optimization method for use in the design of marine protected area networks. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00017

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2019

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Graham, Jennifer A.; O'Dea, Enda; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Polton, Jeffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Hewitt, Helene T.; Furner, Rachel; Guihou, Karen; Brereton, Ashley; Arnold, Alex; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Castillo Sanchez, Juan Manuel; Mayorga Adame, Claudia Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385. 2018 AMM15: a new high-resolution NEMO configuration for operational simulation of the European north-west shelf. Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (2). 681-696. 10.5194/gmd-11-681-2018

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2018

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2018

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2018

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Article

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Van Sebille, Erik; Griffies, Stephen M.; Abernathey, Ryan; Adams, Thomas P.; Berloff, Pavel; Biastoch, Arne; Blanke, Bruno; Chassignet, Eric P.; Cheng, Yu; Cotter, Colin J.; Deleersnijder, Eric; Döös, Kristofer; Drake, Henri; Drijfhout, Sybren; Gary, Stefan F.; Heemink, Arnold W.; Kjellsson, Joakim; Koszalka, Inga Monika; Lange, Michael; Lique, Camille; MacGilchrist, Graeme A.; Marsh, Robert; Mayorga Adame, C. Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; McAdam, Ronan; Nencioli, Francesco; Paris, Claire B.; Piggott, Matthew D.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Rühs, Siren; Shah, Syed H.A.M.; Thomas, Matthew D.; Wang, Jinbo; Wolfram, Phillip J.; Zanna, Laure; Zika, Jan D.. 2018 Lagrangian ocean analysis: fundamentals and practices. Ocean Modelling, 121. 49-75. 10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.11.008

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2018

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Article

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Henry, Lea-Anne; Mayorga Adame, Claudia G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; Fox, Alan D.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Ferris, Joseph S.; McLellan, Faron; McCabe, Chris; Kutti, Tina; Roberts, J. Murray. 2018 Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species. Scientific Reports, 8 (1). 10.1038/s41598-018-29575-4

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2018

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2018

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2018

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2015

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2013

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2013

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