Andrew Meijers

Science Leader - Polar Oceans

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Andrew Meijers

Science Leader - Polar Oceans

Biography

Raised in Hobart, Australia, I first became involved with oceanography and the Southern Ocean in particular in my honours year at the University of Tasmania, Australia in 2004. My work there with high resolution models led me into my PhD, also at UTas, supervised by Nathan Bindoff (UTas) and Steve Rintoul (CSIRO). My PhD focussed on using a novel combination of altimetry and insitu hydrography to examine the full time evolving 3D structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This technique allows the removal of the dynamically less interesting meandering and eddying of the current, which dominates its variability, to examine more climatically critical trends. During this time I also had an opportunity to participate in two Antarctic research voyages on the Aurora Australis (BROKE-West, 2006) and SIPEX (2007), spending a total of 18 weeks at sea. These voyages definitely contributed to my fascination with the region and a determination to become an observational oceanographer.

Following my PhD, I took a short postdoc with Steve Rintoul at CSIRO looking at water mass export from the Antarctic continental shelf, followed by taking a Office of the Chief Executive post at CSIRO (Hobart) with Trevor McDougall. Here I used inverse techniques to examine mixing within a tracer contour/neutral density framework.

In 2012 I was offered at post at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK and gladly took it up. Moving my family and life from Tasmania where I had grown up and worked all my life was hard, but ultimately worthwhile. Since being at BAS I have taken part in four voyages in the Southern Ocean, leading three, and assumed leadership of the Open Oceans team within the Polar Ocean group. My work has expanded to include the examination of coupled climate models, focussing on the Southern Ocean, ocean thermodynamics, mixed layer and subduction processes and shelf export.

I now act as Deputy Science Leader for the Polar Oceans programme and as the PI of the large multi-centre research programme ORCHESTRA.

Research interests

Southern Ocean dynamics, particularly ACC overturning and property trends. In particular I make use of property following techniques such as Gravest Empirical Modes to reduce aliasing. This technique takes advantage of the equivalent barotropic nature of the ocean and allowed me to separate the observed trends over the last few decades into adiabatic (due to water mass movement) and diabatic (actual changes in water mass properties) components.

Coupled Climate model analysis. Particularly understanding trends in the Southern Ocean. Coupled climate models do a fairly poor job of representing the Southern Ocean dynamics, particularly the overturning circulation. By understanding the reasons for this, I hope to improve both our estimation of uncertainty in overall climate variability and also improve the representation of key processes within the Southern Ocean. In particular I am interested in the potential that machine learning holds for identifying non-linear or unexpected relationships between variables within coupled climate models, and therefore helping us understand how the complex dynamics of these models relates one system to another.

Export of dense shelf water and Antarctic Bottom Water from Antarctic, particularly the Weddell and Scotia Seas. This is a water mass that allows long term sequestration of atmospheric properties, such as heat and carbon, in the deep ocean interior. However, it is formed by very regional air-sea-ice processes in the presence of ice shelve, complex bathymetric considerations and is therefore susceptible to change in response to climate forcing. Understanding both how these water masses are formed and how they may change in the future, both via observations and modelling is of great interest to me.

Machine learning applications in oceanographic and geophyscial research. I am a member of the BAS AI-lab and am working with other members of the Polar Oceans team in exploring causal discovery methods in climate models as well as clustering methods for identifying water masses and fronts.

Collaborations

Ric Williams (University of Liverpool) Southern oceAn caRbon inDIces aNd mEtrics (SARDINE)

Jean-Baptiste Sallee (Sorbonne, Paris) Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate (SO-CHIC)

Ivana Cerovecki (Scripps, California). Variability of SAMW properties, diagnosed using Argo

Piers Forster (University of Leeds). Understanding the oceans role in global surface temperature ‘hiatuses’.

Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge). Causal discovery in coupled climate models

Abrahamsen, P., Meijers, A., et al., (2019). Stabilization of dense Antarctic water supply to the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Nature Climate Chage. 10.1038/s41558-019-0561-2

Southern Ocean physics section of the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere. (2019)

Meijers, A., et al, (2019): The Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Williams R. and Meijers A., (2019), Ocean Subduction [in “Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Edition III”]. Eds. Kirk Cochran, Henry Bokuniewicz and Patricia Yager.

Jones, D. C., Holt, H. J., Meijers, A. J., & Shuckburgh, E. F. (2019). Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Cerovečki, I., Meijers, A., et al., (2019). The effects of enhanced sea ice export from the Ross Sea on recent cooling and freshening of the Southeast Pacific. Journal of Climate, (2019).

Meijers, A., et al., (2019). The role of ocean dynamics in king penguin range estimation. Nature Climate Change, 9(2), 120.

Hyder, P., …Meijers, A. et al., (2018). Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors. Nature communications, 9.

Jones, D. C., …, Meijers, A. et al., (2018). Local and remote influences on the heat content of the Labrador Sea: an adjoint sensitivity study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(4),
2646-2667.

Griffiths, H., Meijers, A., Bracegirdle, T., (2017) More losers than winners in a century of future Southern Ocean seafloor warming. Nature Climate Change

Naveira Garabato, A.C., … Meijers, A. et al., (2017) High-latitude ocean ventilation and its role in Earth’s climate transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

A. Meijers, et al., (2016) Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water. J. Geophy. Res. Ocns.

Jones, D.C., Meijers, A. et al., (2016) How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics? J. of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Meredith, M. P., Meijers, A., Naveira Garabato, A.C., et al,. (2015). Circulation, retention, and mixing of waters within the Weddell‐Scotia Confluence, Southern Ocean: The role of stratified
Taylor columns. JGR.

A. Meijers, The Southern Ocean in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5. (2014) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. (Invited).

Post, A.L., Meijers A., et al. (2014) Book chapter: Environmental Setting. In: De Broyer C. & Koubbi P., (chief editors). Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research; 1st edition

Sallee, J. B., … Meijers, A. ., et al., (2013). Assessment of Southern Ocean mixed layer depths in CMIP5 models: historical bias and forcing response. JGR

Salle, J. B., … Meijers, A., et al., (2013). Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: historical bias and forcing response. JGR.

A. Meijers, Shuckburgh, E., Bruneau, N., Sallee, J. B., Bracegirdle, T. J., & Wang, Z. (2012). Representation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the CMIP5 climate models and future
changes under warming scenarios. JGR

A. Meijers, N.L. Bindoff, S.R. Rintoul, (2011) ‘Frontal movements and property fluxes; contributions to heat and freshwater trends in the Southern Ocean’, JGR A. Meijers, N.L. Bindoff, S.R. Rintoul, (2011) ‘Estimating the 4-dimensional structure of the southern Ocean using satellite altimetry’, JOAT

A. Meijers, A. Klocker, N.L. Bindoff, G.D. Williams, S.J. Marsland, (2010) ‘The circulation and water masses of the Antarctic shelf and continental slope between 30 and 80E°, (2010) DSRII
A. Meijers, N. L. Bindoff, J. L. Roberts, (2007) ‘On the total, mean and eddy heat and freshwater transport in the Southern Hemisphere of a 1/8° x 1/8° global ocean model’, JPO

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2024

Josey, Simon A. , Meijers, Andrew J. S. , Blaker, Adam T. , Grist, Jeremy P. , Mecking, Jenny , Ayres, Holly C. . (2024) Record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2023 increased ocean heat loss and storms. Nature, 636 (). 5 pp. 10.1038/s41586-024-08368-y

Brearley, J. Alexander , Girton, James B., Lucas, Natasha S. , Thurnherr, Andreas M., Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Meredith, Michael P. , Meijers, Andrew S. , Venables, Hugh J. . (2024) Mixing and Water Mass Transformation Over Discovery Bank, in the Weddell-Scotia Confluence of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129 (). 24 pp. 10.1029/2023JC020610

Williams, Richard G., Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Roussenov, Vassil M., Katavouta, Anna , Ceppi, Paulo, Rosser, Jonathan P. , Salvi, Pietro. (2024) Asymmetries in the Southern Ocean contribution to global heat and carbon uptake. Nature Climate Change, (). 13 pp. 10.1038/s41558-024-02066-3

Mottram, Ruth, van den Broeke, Michiel, Meijers, Andrew , Rodehacke, Christian, Dell, Rebecca L., Hogg, Anna E., Davison, Benjamin J., Lhermitte, Stef, Hansen, Nicolaj, Torres Alavez, Jose Abraham, Olesen, Martin. (2024) Determining the Freshwater Fluxes from Antarctica with Earth Observation Data, Models, and In Situ Measurements: Uncertainties, Knowledge Gaps, and Prospects for New Advances [Meeting Summary]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (). pp. 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0002.1

Pimm, Ciara, Williams, Richard G., Jones, Dani , Meijers, Andrew J.S. . (2024) Surface Heat Fluxes Drive a Two‐Phase Response in Southern Ocean Mode Water Stratification. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129 (). 17 pp. 10.1029/2023JC020795

2023

Silvano, Alessandro, Purkey, Sarah, Gordon, Arnold L., Castagno, Pasquale, Stewart, Andrew L., Rintoul, Stephen R., Foppert, Annie, Gunn, Kathryn L., Herraiz-Borreguero, Laura, Aoki, Shigeru, Nakayama, Yoshihiro, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Spingys, Carl, Akhoudas, Camille Hayatte, Sallée, Jean Baptiste, de Lavergne, Casimir, Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Meredith, Michael P. , Zhou, Shenjie , Tamura, Takeshi, Yamazaki, Kaihe, Ohshima, Kay I., Falco, Pierpaolo, Budillon, Giorgio, Hattermann, Tore, Janout, Markus A., Llanillo, Pedro, Bowen, Melissa M., Darelius, Elin, Østerhus, Svein, Nicholls, Keith W. , Stevens, Craig, Fernandez, Denise, Cimoli, Laura, Jacobs, Stanley S., Morrison, Adele K., Hogg, Andrew McC., Haumann, F. Alexander, Mashayek, Ali, Wang, Zhaomin, Kerr, Rodrigo, Williams, Guy D., Lee, Won Sang. (2023) Observing Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10 (). 30 pp. 10.3389/fmars.2023.1221701

Sanders, R.N.C. , Meijers, A.J.S. , Holland, P.R. , Naveira Garabato, A.C.. (2023) Sea Ice‐Driven Variability in the Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water Formation Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (). 22 pp. 10.1029/2023JC020006

Trueman, Clive N., Artetxe-Arrate, Iraide, Kerr, Lisa A., Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Rooker, Jay R., Sivankutty, Rahul, Arrizabalaga, Haritz, Belmonte, Antonio, Deguara, Simeon, Goñi, Nicolas, Rodriguez-Marin, Enrique, Dettman, David L., Santos, Miguel Neves, Saadet Karakulak, F., Tinti, Fausto, Tsukahara, Yohei, Fraile, Igaratza. (2023) Thermal sensitivity of field metabolic rate predicts differential futures for bluefin tuna juveniles across the Atlantic Ocean. Nature Communications, 14 (). 12 pp. 10.1038/s41467-023-41930-2

Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Le Quéré, Corinne, Monteiro, Pedro M.S., Sallée, Jean-Baptiste. (2023) Heat and carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean: the state of the art and future priorities [Introduction]. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 381 (). 5 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0071

Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Meredith, Michael P. , Shuckburgh, Emily F., Kent, Elizabeth C. , Munday, David R. , Firing, Yvonne L. , King, Brian , Smyth, Timothy J., Leng, Melanie J. , Nurser, A.J. George, Hewitt, Helene T., Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Weiss, Alexandra, Yang, Mingxi, Bell, Thomas G., Brearley, J. Alexander , Boland, Emma J.D. , Jones, Daniel C. , Josey, Simon A. , Owen, Robyn P., Grist, Jeremy P. , Blaker, Adam T. , Biri, Stavroula , Yelland, Margaret J. , Pimm, Ciara, Zhou, Shenjie , Harle, James, Cornes, Richard C. . (2023) Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381 (). 25 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0070

Meredith, Michael P. , Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Haumann, F. Alexander , Leng, Melanie J. , Arrowsmith, Carol, Barham, Mark , Firing, Yvonne L. , King, Brian A. , Brown, Peter , Brearley, J. Alexander , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Akhoudas, Camille, Tarling, Geraint A. . (2023) Tracing the impacts of recent rapid sea ice changes and the A68 megaberg on the surface freshwater balance of the Weddell and Scotia Seas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 381 (). 21 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0162

The SO-CHIC Consortium, , Sallée, J.B., Abrahamsen, E.P. , Allaigre, C., Auger, M., Ayres, H., Badhe, R., Boutin, J., Brearley, J.A. , de Lavergne, C., ten Doeschate, A.M.M., Droste, E.S., du Plessis, M.D., Ferreira, D., Giddy, I.S., Gülk, B., Gruber, N., Hague, M., Hoppema, M., Josey, S.A. , Kanzow, T., Kimmritz, M., Lindeman, M.R., Llanillo, P.J., Lucas, N.S. , Madec, G., Marshall, D.P., Meijers, A.J.S , Meredith, M.P. , Mohrmann, M., Monteiro, P.M.S., Mosneron Dupin, C., Naeck, K., Narayanan, A., Naveira Garabato, A.C., Nicholson, S.-A., Novellino, A., Ödalen, M., Østerhus, S., Park, W., Patmore, R.D., Piedagnel, E., Roquet, F., Rosenthal, H.S., Roy, T., Saurabh, R., Silvy, Y., Spira, T., Steiger, N., Styles, A.F., Swart, S., Vogt, L., Ward, B., Zhou, S. . (2023) Southern ocean carbon and heat impact on climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 381 (). 18 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0056

Williams, Richard G., Ceppi, Paulo, Roussenov, Vassil, Katavouta, Anna , Meijers, Andrew J.S. . (2023) The role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate response to carbon emissions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 381 (). 35 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0062

Jones, Dani C. , Sonnewald, Maike, Zhou, Shenjie , Hausmann, Ute, Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Rosso, Isabella, Boehme, Lars, Meredith, Michael P. , Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.. (2023) Unsupervised classification identifies coherent thermohaline structures in the Weddell Gyre region. Ocean Science, 19 (). pp. 10.5194/os-19-857-2023

Zhou, Shenjie , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Meredith, Michael P. , Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Holland, Paul R. , Silvano, Alessandro, Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Østerhus, Svein. (2023) Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea ice changes. Nature Climate Change, 13 (). pp. 10.1038/s41558-023-01695-4

2021

Cerovečki, Ivana, Meijers, Andrew J.S. . (2021) Strong quasi-stationary wintertime atmospheric surface pressure anomalies drive a dipole pattern in the Subantarctic Mode Water formation. Journal of Climate, 34 (). 16 pp. 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0593.1

Boland, Emma J.D. , Jones, Daniel C. , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A. . (2021) Local and remote influences on the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126 (). 25 pp. 10.1029/2020JC016585

2020

Zika, Jan D., Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Naveira-Garabato, Alberto C., Watson, Andrew J., Messias, Marie-Jose, King, Brian A. . (2020) Tracking the spread of a passive tracer through Southern Ocean water masses. Ocean Science, 16 (). pp. 10.5194/os-16-323-2020

Jones, Daniel C. , Boland, Emma , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2020) The sensitivity of Southeast Pacific heat distribution to local and remote changes in ocean properties. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50 (). 18 pp. 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0155.1

2019

Meijers, A.J.S. , Cerovečki, I., King, B.A. , Tamsitt, V.M.. (2019) A see-saw in Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water formation driven by atmospheric modes. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (). pp. 10.1029/2019GL085280

Jones, Daniel C. , Boland, Emma , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A. , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily . (2019) Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (). pp. 10.1029/2019JC015460

Abrahamsen, E. Povl , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Polzin, Kurt L., Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., King, Brian A. , Firing, Yvonne L. , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Sheen, Katy L., Gordon, Arnold L., Huber, Bruce A., Meredith, Michael P. . (2019) Stabilization of dense Antarctic water supply to the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Nature Climate Change, 9 (). pp. 10.1038/s41558-019-0561-2

Meijers, Andrew , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Grey, A., Johnson, K., Arrigo, K., Swart, M., King, B. , Meredith, Michael , Mazloff, M.. (2019) Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (). pp. 10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Newman, Louise, Heil, Petra, Trebilco, Rowan, Katsumata, Katsuro, Constable, Andrew J., van Wijk, Esmee, Assmann, Karen, Beja, Joana, Bricher, Phillippa, Coleman, Richard, Costa, Daniel, Diggs, Steve, Farneti, Riccardo, Fawcett, Sarah, Gille, Sarah T., Hendry, Katharine R., Henley, Sian F., Hofmann, Eileen, Maksym, Ted, Mazloff, Matthew, Meijers, Andrew J. , Meredith, Michael P. , Moreau, Sebastien, Ozsoy, Burcu, Robertson, Robin, Schloss, Irene R., Schofield, Oscar, Shi, Jiuxin, Sikes, Elizabeth L., Smith, Inga J., Swart, Sebastiaan, Wahlin, Anna, Williams, Guy, Williams, Michael J., Herraiz-Borreguero, Laura, Kern, Stefan, Lieser, Jan, Massom, Rob, Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica, Miloslavich, Patricia, Spreen, Gunnar. (2019) Delivering sustained, coordinated and integrated observations of the Southern Ocean for global impact. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6 (). pp. 10.3389/fmars.2019.00433

Jones, Dan , Holt, Harry, Meijers, Andrew , Shuckburgh, Emily . (2019) Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (). pp. 10.1029/2018JC014629

Cerovečki, Ivana, Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Mazloff, Matthew R., Gille, Sarah T., Tamsitt, Veronica M., Holland, Paul R. . (2019) The effects of enhanced sea ice export from the Ross Sea on recent cooling and freshening of the Southeast Pacific. Journal of Climate, 32 (). pp. 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0205.1

Williams, Richard G., Meijers, Andrew . (2019) Ocean Subduction. In: Cochran, J. Kirk, Bokuniewicz, Henry J., Yager, Patricia L. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Third Edition), , Academic Press, pp. 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11297-7

Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Meredith, Michael P. , Murphy, Eugene J. , Chambers, D. P., Belchier, Mark, Young, Emma F. . (2019) The role of ocean dynamics in king penguin range estimation. Nature Climate Change, 9 (). pp. 10.1038/s41558-018-0388-2

2018

Hyder, Patrick, Edwards, John M., Allan, Richard P., Hewitt, Helene T., Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Gregory, Jonathan M., Wood, Richard A., Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Mulcahy, Jane, Field, Paul, Furtado, Kalli, Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro, Williams, Keith D., Copsey, Dan, Josey, Simon A. , Liu, Chunlei, Roberts, Chris D., Sanchez, Claudio, Ridley, Jeff, Thorpe, Livia, Hardiman, Steven C., Mayar, Michael, Berry, David I., Belcher, Stephen E.. (2018) Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors. Nature Communications, 9 (). pp. 10.1038/s41467-018-05634-2

Swart, S., Johnson, K., Mazloff, M.R., Meijers, Andrew , Meredith, Michael P. , Newman, L., Sallée, J.-B.. (2018) Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (). pp.

. Cochran, J. Kirk, Bokuniewicz, Henry J., Yager, Patricia L. (eds.). (2018) The State of the Polar Oceans 2018. , , pp. (.)

Meredith, Michael , Sundfjord, Arild, Henson, Stephanie, Meijers, Andrew , Murphy, Eugene , Bellerby, Richard, Daase, Malin, Cottier, Finlo, Belchier, Mark, Chierici, Melissa, Ellingsen, Ingrid, Falk-Petersen, Stig, Hill, Simeon , Holland, Paul , Tarling, Geraint , Trathan, Phil , Turner, John , Wilkinson, Jeremy , Batchellier, Layla, Capper, Linda, Oliver, Jamie. Cochran, J. Kirk, Bokuniewicz, Henry J., Yager, Patricia L. (eds.). (2018) The state of the polar oceans 2018: making sense of our changing world. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey, 14 pp. (.)

Jones, Daniel C. , Forget, Gael, Sinha, Bablu, Josey, Simon A. , Boland, Emma J.D. , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Shuckburgh, Emily . (2018) Local and remote influences on the heat content of the Labrador Sea: an adjoint sensitivity study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (). pp. 10.1002/2018JC013774

Mackay, Neill, Ledwell, James R., Messias, Marie-José, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Brearley, J. Alexander , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Jones, Daniel C. , Watson, Andrew J.. (2018) Diapycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean diagnosed using the DIMES tracer and realistic velocity fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (). pp. 10.1002/2017JC013536

2017

Griffiths, Huw J. , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Bracegirdle, Thomas J. . (2017) More losers than winners in a century of future Southern Ocean seafloor warming. Nature Climate Change, 7 (). pp. 10.1038/nclimate3377

Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., MacGilchrist, Graeme A., Brown, Peter J. , Evans, Dafydd Gwyn , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Zika, Jan D.. (2017) High-latitude ocean ventilation and its role in Earth’s climate transitions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375 (). pp. 10.1098/rsta.2016.0324

2016

Meijers, A.J.S. , Meredith, M.P. , Abrahamsen, E.P. , Maqueda, M.A.M., Jones, D.C. , Naveira Garabato, A.C.. (2016) Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121 (). pp. doi:10.1002/2016JC011757

Jones, Daniel C. , Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Shuckburgh, Emily , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Haynes, Peter, McAufield, Ewa K., Mazloff, Matthew R.. (2016) How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121 (). pp. 10.1002/2016JC011680

Hutchinson, K., Swart, S., Meijers, A. , Ansorge, I., Speich, S.. (2016) Decadal-scale thermohaline variability in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121 (). pp. doi:10.1002/2015JC011491

2015

Meredith, Michael , Meijers, Andrew , Naveira Garabato, Alberto, Brown, Peter , Venables, Hugh , Abrahamsen, Povl , Jullion, Loic, Messias, Marie-Jose. (2015) Circulation, retention and mixing of waters within the Weddell-Scotia Confluence, Southern Ocean: the role of stratified Taylor columns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120 (). pp. 10.1002/2014JC010462

2014

Post, Alexandra L., Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Fraser, Alexander D., Meiners, Klaus M., Ayers, Jennifer, Bindoff, Nathan L., Griffiths, Huw J. , Van de Putte, Anton, O'Brien, Philip E., Swadling, Kerrie M., Raymond, Ben. (2014) Environmental setting. In: De Broyer, Claude, Koubbi, Philippe, Griffiths, Huw , Raymond, Ben, d'Udekem d'Acoz, Cedric, Van de Putte, Anton, Danis, Bruno, David, Bruno, Grant, Susie , Gutt, Julian, Held, Christoph, Hosie, Graham, Huettmann, Falk, Post, Alexandra, Ropert-Coudert, Yan (eds.). Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean, Cambridge, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, pp.

Meijers, A. J. S. . (2014) The Southern Ocean in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, A, 372 (). 23 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2013.0296

2013

Cougnon, E. A., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Meijers, A. J. S. , Legrésy, B.. (2013) Modeling interannual dense shelf water export in the region of the Mertz Glacier Tongue (1992-2007). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118 (). pp. doi:10.1002/2013JC008790

Sallee, J.-B., Shuckburgh, E. , Bruneau, N., Meijers, AJ.S. , Bracegirdle, T.J. , Wang, Z., Roy, T.. (2013) Assessment of Southern Ocean water mass circulation and characteristics in CMIP5 models: Historical bias and forcing response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118 (). pp. doi:10.1002/jgrc.20135

Sallee, J.-B., Shuckburgh, E. , Bruneau, N., Meijers, A.J.S. , Bracegirdle, T.J. , Wang, Z.. (2013) Assessment of Southern Ocean mixed-layer depth in CMIP5 models: historical bias and forcing response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118 (). pp. 10.1002/jgrc.20157

Bracegirdle, Thomas J. , Shuckburgh, Emily , Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Wang, Zhaomin, Meijers, Andrew J.S. , Bruneau, Nicolas, Phillips, Tony , Wilcox, Laura J.. (2013) Assessment of surface winds over the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean sectors of the Southern Ocean in CMIP5 models: historical bias, forcing response, and state dependence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (). pp. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50153

2012

Meijers, A.J.S. , Shuckburgh, E. , Bruneau, N., Sallee, J.-B., Bracegirdle, T.J. , Wang, Z.. (2012) Representation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the CMIP5 climate models and future changes under warming scenarios. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117 (). 19 pp. 10.1029/2012JC008412

Cottin, Manuelle, Raymond, Ben, Kato, Akiko, Amélineau, Françoise, Le Maho, Yvon, Raclot, Thierry, Galton-Fenzi, Ben, Meijers, Andrew , Ropert-Coudert, Yan. (2012) Foraging strategies of male Adélie penguins during their first incubation trip in relation to environmental conditions. Marine Biology, 159 (). pp. 10.1007/s00227-012-1974-x

The separation of the trends over the last few decades into adiabatic and diabatic components. By doing this I showed that while geographic surveys have shown a warming over the Southern Ocean, this is largely caused by the adiabatic movement of watermasses southward. This trend largely masks the water mass change itself, which is actually towards cooler and fresher on average. For more details see here.

A Drop in the Southern Ocean: A great short film showcasing the DIMES experiment, and particularly the final voyage (led by myself) of that multinational experiment. https://vimeo.com/97260669

Credit to Katy Sheen and Siobhan Moran for putting together such a great piece of work!

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