Michael Haigh
Physical Scientist: Ice/Ocean Modeller
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Michael Haigh
Physical Scientist: Ice/Ocean Modeller
Biography
I am an Ice/Ocean Modeller in the Shelf Seas research group at BAS. My research considers ocean-driven melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with a particular focus on the effects of the Amundsen Sea circulation. Other interests include the role of mesoscale eddies in forcing large-scale ocean flows and in redistributing tracers about the ocean.
Research interests
Collaborations
M. Haigh & P.R. Holland, 2024: Decadal variability of ice-shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea driven by sea-ice freshwater fluxes. GRL, Submitted.
M. Haigh, P.R. Holland and A. Jenkins, 2023: The Influence of Bathymetry Over Heat Transport onto the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(5).
M. Haigh and P. Berloff, 2022: On the stability of tracer simulations with opposite-signed diffusivities. J. Fluid Mech., 937, R3.
M. Haigh and P. Berloff, 2021: On co-existing diffusive and anti-diffusive tracer transport by oceanic mesoscale eddies. Ocean Modelling, 168, 101909.
M. Haigh, L. Sun, J.C. McWilliams, and P. Berloff, 2021: On eddy transport in the ocean. Part II: The advection tensor. Ocean Modelling, 165, 101845.
M. Haigh, L. Sun, J.C. McWilliams, and P. Berloff, 2021: On eddy transport in the ocean. Part I: The diffusion tensor. Ocean Modelling, 164, 101831.
L. Sun, M. Haigh, I. Shevchenko, P. Berloff, and I. Kamenkovich, 2021: On non-uniqueness of the mesoscale eddy diffusivity. J. Fluid Mech., 920, A32
Kamenkovich, I., P. Berloff, M. Haigh, L. Sun, and Y. Lu, 2021: Complexity of mesoscale eddy diffusivity in the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL091719.
M. Haigh, L. Sun, I. Shevchenko, and P. Berloff, 2020: Tracer-based estimates of eddy-induced diffusivities. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 160, 103264.
M.C. Haigh and P.S. Berloff, 2020: Rossby waves and zonal momentum redistribution induced by localised forcing in the rotating shallow-water model. J. Fluid Mech., 885, A43.
M.C. Haigh and P.S. Berloff, 2018: Potential vorticity redistribution by localised transient forcing in the shallow-water model. J. Fluid Mech., 852, 199–225.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2024
Haigh, Michael ORCID record for Michael Haigh, Holland, Paul R. ORCID record for Paul R. Holland. (2024) Decadal variability of ice-shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea driven by sea-ice freshwater fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (). 10 pp. 10.1029/2024GL108406
2023
Haigh, Michael ORCID record for Michael Haigh, Holland, Paul R. ORCID record for Paul R. Holland, Jenkins, Adrian. (2023) The Influence of Bathymetry Over Heat Transport Onto the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (). 19 pp. 10.1029/2022JC019460