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Simon A. Josey is a researcher affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences with particular emphasis on Environmental Science. A significant portion of their research delves into oceanography and its intersection with global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The primary areas of their scholarly pursuit can be summarized as follows:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Simon A. Josey's recent publications contribute to the understanding of oceanic and climatic processes. Selected papers include:

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Atlantic Deep Water Formation Occurs Primarily in the Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea by Local Buoyancy Forcing (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Intensification of the global water cycle and evidence from ocean salinity: a synthesis review (2020), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Satellite-Based Sea Surface Salinity Designed for Ocean and Climate Studies (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Role of air-sea fluxes and ocean surface density in the production of deep waters in the eastern subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic (2021), published in Ocean Science

The venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ocean Science
  • Journal of Climate
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Collaboration is an integral part of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bablu Sinha
  • Jeremy P. Grist
  • Daniel C. Jones
  • Robert Marsh
  • Marilena Oltmanns

The breadth of Simon A. Josey's work involves investigating physical oceanographic phenomena, including ocean circulation, salinity patterns, deep water formation, and air-sea interactions. Their contributions extend into improved understanding of oceanic influences on climate variability, ice dynamics, and environmental processes affecting marine and coastal ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;Shogo Urakawa;Hideyuki Nakano;R. Justin Small

  • New Insights into the Ocean Heat Budget Closure Problem from Analysis of the SOC Air–Sea Flux Climatology

    Simon A. Josey;Elizabeth C. Kent;Peter K. Taylor

  • An imperative to monitor Earth's energy imbalance

    K. von Schuckmann;M. D. Palmer;K. E. Trenberth;A. Cazenave;A. Cazenave

  • The North Atlantic Ocean Is in a State of Reduced Overturning

    David A. Smeed;S.A. Josey;Claudie Beaulieu;W.E. Johns

  • Chapter 4 Changes in the oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea and their link to climate variability

    Michael N. Tsimplis;Michael N. Tsimplis;Vassilis Zervakis;Vassilis Zervakis;Simon A. Josey;Simon A. Josey;Elissaveta L. Peneva;Elissaveta L. Peneva

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

    N. Penny Holliday;Manfred Bersch;Barbara Berx;Leon Chafik

  • Atmospheric forcing in the Arabian Sea during 1994–1995: observations and comparisons with climatology and models

    R.A. Weller;M.F. Baumgartner;Simon A. Josey;A.S. Fischer

  • Salinity changes in the World Ocean since 1950 in relation to changing surface freshwater fluxes

    Nikolaos Skliris;Robert Marsh;Simon A. Josey;Simon A. Good

  • Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 European heat wave

    Aurélie Duchez;Eleanor Frajka-Williams;Simon A. Josey;Dafydd Gwyn Evans

  • The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas

    S.A. Josey;E.C. Kent;P.K. Taylor

  • Observations of seasonal exchange through the Straits of Hormuz and the inferred heat and freshwater budgets of the Persian Gulf

    W. E. Johns;F. Yao;D. B. Olson;S. A. Josey

  • Forcing of the Mediterranean Sea by atmospheric oscillations over the North Atlantic

    Michael N. Tsimplis;Simon A. Josey

  • Estimating air‐sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum through global ocean data assimilation

    D. Stammer;K. Ueyoshi;A. Köhl;W. G. Large

  • Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

    Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

  • Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors.

    Patrick Hyder;John M. Edwards;Richard P. Allan;Helene T. Hewitt

  • Inverse Analysis Adjustment of the SOC Air-Sea Flux Climatology Using Ocean Heat Transport Constraints

    Jeremy P. Grist;Simon A. Josey

  • Global water cycle amplifying at less than the Clausius-Clapeyron rate.

    Nikolaos Skliris;Jan D. Zika;George Nurser;Simon A. Josey

  • A comparison of ECMWF, NCEP-NCAR, and SOC surface heat fluxes with moored buoy measurements in the subduction region of the Northeast Atlantic

    S.A. Josey

  • Impacts of atmospheric modes of variability on Mediterranean Sea surface heat exchange

    Simon A. Josey;Samuel Somot;Mikis Tsimplis

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Changes in the heat and freshwater forcing of the eastern Mediterranean and their influence on deep water formation

    Simon A. Josey

Frequent Co-Authors

Bablu Sinha
Bablu Sinha National Oceanography Centre
Robert Marsh
Robert Marsh University of Southampton
Elizabeth C. Kent
Elizabeth C. Kent National Oceanography Centre
David A. Smeed
David A. Smeed National Oceanography Centre
Adrian L. New
Adrian L. New National Oceanography Centre
Andrew C. Coward
Andrew C. Coward National Oceanography Centre
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Michael N. Tsimplis
Michael N. Tsimplis City University of Hong Kong
Sarah T. Gille
Sarah T. Gille University of California, San Diego
Lisan Yu
Lisan Yu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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