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Sheldon Bacon is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the broad fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Within subfields, they have contributed to research in:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Sociology and Political Science

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Sheldon Bacon include the following:

  • Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary density anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010-2019, 2021, Ocean Science
  • Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay Freshwater Exports: New Estimates from Seven Decades of Hydrographic Surveys on the Labrador Shelf, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Control of the Oceanic Heat Content of the Getz-Dotson Trough, Antarctica, by the Amundsen Sea Low, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Irminger Sea Is the Center of Action for Subpolar AMOC Variability, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Ocean Science
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters

They have commonly collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • N. Penny Holliday
  • Yevgeny Aksenov
  • Isabela Le Bras
  • Marilena Oltmanns
  • Léon Chafik

Best Publications

  • A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic

    M. S. Lozier;F. Li;S. Bacon;F. Bahr

  • Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global oceans

    Edward C. Carmack;Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai;Thomas W. N. Haine;Sheldon Bacon

  • Arctic Ocean warming contributes to reduced polar ice cap

    Igor V. Polyakov;Leonid A. Timokhov;Vladimir A. Alexeev;Sheldon Bacon

  • Western Arctic Ocean freshwater storage increased by wind-driven spin-up of the Beaufort Gyre

    Katharine A. Giles;Seymour W. Laxon;Andy L. Ridout;Duncan J. Wingham

  • Reversal of the 1960s to 1990s freshening trend in the northeast North Atlantic and Nordic Seas

    N. Penny Holliday;S. L. Hughes;S. Bacon;A. Beszczynska-Möller

  • Labrador Sea Boundary Currents and the Fate of the Irminger Sea Water

    Jerome Cuny;Peter B. Rhines;Pearn P. Niiler;Sheldon Bacon

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed Transport and Variability

    Eleanor Frajka-Williams;Isabelle J. Ansorge;Johanna Baehr;Harry L. Bryden

  • Impact of Variable Atmospheric and Oceanic Form Drag on Simulations of Arctic Sea Ice

    Michel Tsamados;Daniel L. Feltham;David Schroeder;Daniela Flocco

  • Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing System

    M. Susan Lozier;Sheldon Bacon;Amy S. Bower;Stuart A. Cunningham

  • The Rossby radius in the Arctic Ocean

    A. J. G. Nurser;S. Bacon

  • A new concept for the paleoceanographic evolution of Heinrich event 1 in the North Atlantic

    J D Stanford;Eelco J. Rohling;S Bacon;Andrew Roberts;Andrew Roberts

  • The Arctic Circumpolar Boundary Current

    Yevgeny Aksenov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;Vladimir V. Ivanov;A. J. George Nurser;Sheldon Bacon

  • Arctic sea surface height variability and change from satellite radar altimetry and GRACE, 2003-2014

    Thomas W. K. Armitage;Sheldon Bacon;Andy L. Ridout;Sam F. Thomas

  • Export of nutrients from the Arctic Ocean

    Sinhué Torres-Valdés;Takamasa Tsubouchi;Sheldon Bacon;Alberto C. Naveira-Garabato

  • The Irminger Gyre: Circulation, convection, and interannual variability

    Kjetil Våge;Robert S. Pickart;Artem Sarafanov;Øyvind Knutsen

  • A freshwater jet on the east Greenland shelf

    Sheldon Bacon;Gilles Reverdin;Ignatius G. Rigor;Helen M. Snaith

  • Tide-mediated warming of Arctic halocline by Atlantic heat fluxes over rough topography

    Tom P. Rippeth;Ben J. Lincoln;Yueng-Djern Lenn;J. A. Mattias Green

  • Transports across the 2002 Greenland-Portugal Ovide section and comparison with 1997.

    Pascale Lherminier;Herle Mercier;Claire Gourcuff;M Alvarez

  • Arctic Ocean surface geostrophic circulation 2003–2014

    Thomas W. K. Armitage;Thomas W. K. Armitage;Sheldon Bacon;Andy L. Ridout;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • Decadal variability in the outflow from the Nordic seas to the deep Atlantic Ocean

    Sheldon Bacon

  • Discussion meeting issue 'Arctic sea ice reduction: the evidence, models and impacts (Part 2)'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, (373) 2052

    Daniel Feltham;Sheldon Bacon;Mark Brandon;Julian Hunt

  • Impact of variable atmospheric and oceanic form drag on simulations of Arctic sea ice

    Michel Tsamados;Daniel Feltham;David Schroeder;Daniela Flocco

Frequent Co-Authors

Yevgeny Aksenov
Yevgeny Aksenov National Oceanography Centre
Andrew C. Coward
Andrew C. Coward National Oceanography Centre
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
Alberto C. Naveira Garabato University of Southampton
Michael P. Meredith
Michael P. Meredith British Antarctic Survey
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Paul R. Holland
Paul R. Holland British Antarctic Survey
Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michel Tsamados
Michel Tsamados University College London
Stuart A. Cunningham
Stuart A. Cunningham Scottish Association For Marine Science

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