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John M. Huthnance is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily covers Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Oceanography and related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics including Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate variability and models, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

They have published in several scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Nature Communications
  • Ocean Modelling
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Ocean science

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by John M. Huthnance include:

  • Ocean shelf exchange, NW European shelf seas: Measurements, estimates and comparisons (2022, Progress In Oceanography)
  • Ocean internal tides suppress tropical cyclones in the South China Sea (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Idealised modelling of offshore-forced sea level hot spots and boundary waves along the North American East Coast (2020, Ocean Modelling)
  • Oceanic Density/Pressure Gradients and Slope Currents (2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography)
  • Preface: Developments in the science and history of tides (2021, Ocean science)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers such as Mark Inall, Jeff A. Polton, Philip Woodworth, Jo Hopkins, and Barbara Berx.

Best Publications

  • Circulation, exchange and water masses at the ocean margin: the role of physical processes at the shelf edge

    John M. Huthnance

  • On one mechanism forming linear sand banks

    John M. Huthnance

  • Cascades of dense water around the world ocean

    Vladimir Ivanov;G Shapiro;G Shapiro;JM Huthnance;Dmitry Aleynik

  • On Coastal Trapped Waves: Analysis and Numerical Calculation by Inverse Iteration

    John M. Huthnance

  • Forcing Factors Affecting Sea Level Changes at the Coast

    Philip L. Woodworth;Angélique Melet;Marta Marcos;Marta Marcos;Richard D. Ray

  • Slope Currents and “JEBAR”

    John M. Huthnance

  • Observed upper ocean response to typhoon Megi (2010) in the Northern South China Sea

    Shoude Guan;Wei Zhao;John M. Huthnance;Jiwei Tian

  • Tidal current asymmetries over the Norfolk Sandbanks

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  • The Rockall slope current and shelf-edge processes

    J. M. Huthnance

  • On trapped waves over a continental shelf

    John M. Huthnance

  • Quantifying future climate change

    Matthew Collins;Richard E. Chandler;Peter M. Cox;John M. Huthnance

  • Internal tides and waves near the continental shelf edge

    J. M. Huthnance

  • Dense water cascading off the continental shelf

    G. I. Shapiro;G. I. Shapiro;J. M. Huthnance;V. V. Ivanov

  • On the formation of sand banks of finite extent

    J.M. Huthnance

  • Ocean margin exchange—water flux estimates

    John M. Huthnance;Hendrik M. Van Aken;Martin White;E.Desmond Barton

  • Waves and currents near the continental shelf edge

    J.M. Huthnance

  • Deep ocean exchange with west-European shelf seas

    J. M. Huthnance;J. T. Holt;S. L. Wakelin

  • Physical oceanography of the North Sea

    J.M. Huthnance

  • Sea Level and the Role of Coastal Trapped Waves in Mediating the Influence of the Open Ocean on the Coast

    Chris W. Hughes;Chris W. Hughes;Ichiro Fukumori;Stephen M. Griffies;John M. Huthnance

  • Down-welling circulation of the northwest European continental shelf: A driving mechanism for the continental shelf carbon pump

    Jason Holt;Sarah Wakelin;John Huthnance

  • Coastal Trapped Waves

    J.M. Huthnance;L.A. Mysak;D.-P. Wang

  • Physical structures, advection and mixing in the region of Goban spur

    John M. Huthnance;Henrique Coelho;Colin R. Griffiths;Philip J. Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Holt
Jason Holt National Oceanography Centre
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science
Chris W. Hughes
Chris W. Hughes University of Liverpool
Richard Hobbs
Richard Hobbs Durham University
Neil C. Mitchell
Neil C. Mitchell University of Manchester
Robert Hall
Robert Hall Royal Holloway University of London
Richard G. Williams
Richard G. Williams University of Liverpool
Judith Wolf
Judith Wolf National Oceanography Centre
Jonathan Sharples
Jonathan Sharples University of Liverpool
Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov Lomonosov Moscow State University

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