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Overview

Brian A. King is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

The main subfields of study include Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. King's work also spans Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry, illustrating interdisciplinary engagement.

King's research covers a variety of topics, such as:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Frequent collaborators in King's work include:

  • Dean Roemmich
  • Gregory C. Johnson
  • Susan Wijffels
  • Nathalie Zilberman
  • Sarah G. Purkey

King has published extensively in several peer-reviewed venues. These include Frontiers in Marine Science, Earth system science data, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, British Journal of Pharmacology, and Ocean Science.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian A. King include:

  • "Argo Data 1999-2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?" 2020, Earth system science data
  • "THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Ion channels," 2021, British Journal of Pharmacology
  • "Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?" 2023, Earth system science data
  • "The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2023/24: Ion channels," 2023, British Journal of Pharmacology

Best Publications

  • Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array

    Stephen C. Riser;Howard J. Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels

  • Transport and variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage

    Stuart A. Cunningham;Steven G. Alderson;Brian A. King;Mark Brandon;Mark Brandon

  • Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean

    Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Kurt L. Polzin;Brian A. King;Karen J. Heywood

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Annie P.S. Wong;Susan E. Wijffels;Stephen C. Riser;Sylvie Pouliquen

  • Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go?

    Karina von Schuckmann;Lijing Cheng;Matthew D. Palmer;James Hansen

  • Argo profiling floats bring new era of in situ ocean observations

    John Gould;Dean Roemmich;Susan Wijffels;Howard Freeland

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Argo: The Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Dean Roemmich;Olaf Boebel;Yves Desaubies;Howard Freeland

  • SUSTAINED MONITORING OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN AT DRAKE PASSAGE: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PRIORITIES

    Michael P. Meredith;Philip L. Woodworth;Teresa K. Chereskin;David P. Marshall

  • Deep and abyssal ocean warming from 35 years of repeat hydrography

    Damien G. Desbruyères;Sarah G. Purkey;Sarah G. Purkey;Elaine L. McDonagh;Gregory C. Johnson

  • Variability of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water in the Drake Passage during the Late-Twentieth and Early-Twenty-First Centuries

    Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Loïc Jullion;David P. Stevens;Karen J. Heywood

  • Oceanic Fluxes on the WOCE A11 Section

    Peter M. Saunders;Brian A. King

  • Bottom Currents Derived from a Shipborne ADCP on WOCE Cruise A11 in the South Atlantic

    Peter M. Saunders;Brian A. King

  • Global and Full-Depth Ocean Temperature Trends during the Early Twenty-First Century from Argo and Repeat Hydrography

    Damien Desbruyeres;Elaine L. McDonagh;Brian A. King;Virginie Thierry

  • Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends?

    Harry L. Bryden;Elaine L. McDonagh;Brian A. King

  • Argo: The challenge of continuing 10 years of progress

    D Roemmich;M Belboch;H Freeland;SL Garzoli

  • Transport and Water Masses of the Antarctic Slope Front System in The Eastern Weddell Sea

    Karen J. Heywood;Ricardo A. Locarnini;Russell D. Frew;Paul F. Dennis

  • On the Sources of Weddell Gyre Antarctic Bottom Water

    Michael P. Meredith;Ricardo A. Locarnini;Kim A. Van Scoy;Andrew J. Watson

  • Decadal changes of the θ−S relationship of the Eastern North Atlantic Central Water

    Fiz F. Pérez;Aida F. Ríos;Brian A. King;Raymond T. Pollard

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Harry L. Bryden
Harry L. Bryden University of Southampton
Dean Roemmich
Dean Roemmich University of California, San Diego
Karen J. Heywood
Karen J. Heywood University of East Anglia
Michael P. Meredith
Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Andrew J. Watson
Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato University of Southampton
Stuart A. Cunningham
Stuart A. Cunningham Scottish Association For Marine Science
Gregory C. Johnson
Gregory C. Johnson Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Howard J. Freeland
Howard J. Freeland Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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