Search Results - "STEVENS, Craig L"
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Forecasting extreme marine heat events in key aquaculture regions around New Zealand
Published in Journal of Southern Hemisphere earth systems science (01-01-2022)“…The Tasman Sea has been identified as a climate hotspot and has experienced several marine heatwaves (MHWs) in recent years. These events have impacted coastal…”
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The seasonal appearance of ice shelf water in coastal Antarctica and its effect on sea ice growth
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (01-11-2011)“…In this paper we report measurements from the first year‐round mooring underneath sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, which we combine with full‐depth ocean…”
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Observations of submesoscale eddy-driven heat transport at an ice shelf calving front
Published in Communications earth & environment (01-12-2022)“…Abstract Antarctica’s ice shelves buttress the continent’s terrestrial ice, helping slow the loss of grounded ice into the ocean and limiting sea level rise…”
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Drivers of Last Millennium Antarctic Climate Evolution in an Ensemble of Community Earth System Model Simulations
Published in Geosciences (Basel) (01-08-2022)“…Improved understanding of the drivers of climate variability, particularly over the last millennium, and its influence on Antarctic ice melt have important…”
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Spatial Structure of Low Salinity Submesoscale Features and Their Interactions With a Coastal Current
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (28-10-2020)“…Submesoscale features, characterised by a low salinity layer originating from river discharges, enhance water column stability in a New Zealand shelf sea - the…”
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Turbulent diapycnal fluxes as a pilot Essential Ocean Variable
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (28-11-2023)“…We contend that ocean turbulent fluxes should be included in the list of Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) created by the Global Ocean Observing System. This…”
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Horizon Scan on the Benefits of Ocean Seasonal Forecasting in a Future of Increasing Marine Heatwaves for Aotearoa New Zealand
Published in Frontiers in climate (27-06-2022)“…With climate heating, Aotearoa New Zealand is expected to experience more marine heatwaves (MHW) in the coming decades. These extreme events are already…”
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Evaluating the Surface Response of Discharge Events in a New Zealand Gulf-ROFI
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (26-07-2017)“…Using moorings with a surface expression, responses of buoyant river outflows were examined in the Firth-Hauraki Gulf system, New Zealand. The Firth region of…”
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Physical oceanography of New Zealand/Aotearoa shelf seas - a review
Published in New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research (02-01-2021)“…The shelf seas surrounding New Zealand/Aotearoa, a region nominally extending out to the 250 m depth contour, are complex and varied as they sit above the…”
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Numerical modelling of the effect of turbines on currents in a tidal channel – Tory Channel, New Zealand
Published in Renewable energy (01-09-2013)“…Numerical modelling is used to assess the effect of a turbine array on tidal currents in the Tory Channel, New Zealand. The Tory Channel is the smaller of two…”
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A modelling synthesis of the volume flux through Cook Strait
Published in New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research (02-01-2021)“…We present hindcasts of currents in Cook Strait from a baroclinic, tide-resolving ocean model. Three hindcasts are run, forced respectively at the lateral…”
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Turbulent length scales in a fast-flowing, weakly stratified, strait: Cook Strait, New Zealand
Published in Ocean science (22-08-2018)“…There remains much to be learned about the full range of turbulent motions in the ocean. Here we consider turbulence and overturn scales in the relatively…”
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Turbulence in an estuarine embayment: Observations from Beatrix Bay, New Zealand
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (01-02-2003)“…This study characterizes turbulence in a stratified estuarine embayment using measurements of temperature gradient microstructure. The water column was…”
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Closing the Loops on Southern Ocean Dynamics: From the Circumpolar Current to Ice Shelves and From Bottom Mixing to Surface Waves
Published in Reviews of geophysics (1985) (01-09-2024)“…A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it…”
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Circulation in Tasman-Golden bays and Greater Cook Strait, New Zealand
Published in New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research (02-01-2021)“…Analyses are presented of model simulations and Lagrangian drifter experiments designed to quantify circulation and dispersal in Tasman and Golden Bays, and…”
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The physics of New Zealand's shelf seas: introduction to the special issue
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Pūtahitanga: the intersection of western science and mātauranga Māori in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand's physical oceanography
Published in New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research (02-01-2021)“…Aotearoa New Zealand is a land and cultures surrounded by one of the planet's larger marine exclusive economic zones per capita. Understanding, living within…”
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High-resolution X-Band radar measurements of currents, bathymetry and sea state in highly inhomogeneous coastal areas
Published in Ocean dynamics (01-07-2014)“…In this paper, high-resolution wave, current and water depth fields derived by marine X-Band radar are presented for a coastal region of extreme tidal currents…”
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Direct observations of melting, freezing, and ocean circulation in an ice shelf basal crevasse
Published in Science advances (27-10-2023)“…Ocean conditions near the grounding zones of Antarctica’s ice shelves play a key role in controlling the outflow and mass balance of the ice sheet. However,…”
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The role of turbulence and internal waves in the structure and evolution of a near-field river plume
Published in Ocean science (13-07-2020)“…An along-channel momentum budget is quantified in the near-field plume region of a controlled river flow entering Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Observations…”
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