Jacob Opher
PhD Student
Biography
I’m a NERC EnvEast PhD student, working with Dr Alex Brearley in the polar oceans team. My research is about the sources of overturning water in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans and how they vary. This water feeds the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, an important climate system that transports heat to high latitudes. I am using measurements (moorings and CTDs) to investigate the variability of the boundary currents that flow parallel to Greenland – the nature of their variability and the processes that drive it.
Research interests
- The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- Atmosphere-ocean interaction
- Turbulent mixing processes
- Arctic Ocean freshwater export
- The sub-polar gyre
- Multi-decadal salinity variability of the North Atlantic
Collaborations
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2022
Opher, J.G. ORCID record for J.G. Opher, Brearley, J.A. ORCID record for J.A. Brearley, Dye, S.R., Pickart, R.S., Renfrew, I.A., Harden, B.E., Meredith, M.P. ORCID record for M.P. Meredith. (2022) The annual salinity cycle of the Denmark Strait Overflow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127 (). 23 pp. 10.1029/2021JC018139
2021
Hendry, Katharine R., Briggs, Nathan ORCID record for Nathan Briggs, Henson, Stephanie ORCID record for Stephanie Henson, Opher, Jacob ORCID record for Jacob Opher, Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Meredith, Michael P. ORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Leng, Melanie J. ORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Meire, Lorenz. (2021) Tracing glacial meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet to the ocean using gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126 (). 17 pp. 10.1029/2021JC017274
2020
Dye, S., Berx, B., Opher, Jacob ORCID record for Jacob Opher, Tinker, J.P., Renshaw, R.. (2020) Climate change and salinity of the coastal and marine environment around the UK.. , Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership, 27 pp. (.) 10.14465/2020.arc04.sal
2019
Hendry, Katharine R., Huvenne, Veerle A.I. ORCID record for Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Robinson, Laura F., Annett, Amber, Badger, Marcus, Jacobel, Allison W., Ng, Hong Chin, Opher, Jacob ORCID record for Jacob Opher, Pickering, Rebecca A., Taylor, Michelle L., Bates, Stephanie L., Cooper, Adam, Cushman, Grace G., Goodwin, Claire, Hoy, Shannon, Rowland, George, Samperiz, Ana, Williams, James A., Achterberg, Eric P., Arrowsmith, Carol, Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Henley, Sian F., Krause, Jeffrey W., Leng, Melanie J. ORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Li, Tao, McManus, Jerry F., Meredith, Michael P. ORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Perkins, Rupert, Woodward, E. Malcolm S.. (2019) The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland. Progress in Oceanography, 176 (). pp. 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102126