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Stuart A. Cunningham is affiliated with the Scottish Association For Marine Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 37 publications, and Environmental Science, contributing 23 works. Within these fields, Cunningham has specialized in subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science, supported by additional research in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of study cover a spectrum of oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems. Further topics addressed include geology and paleoclimatology research, marine and fisheries research, as well as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Notable recent papers authored by Cunningham include:

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Atlantic Deep Water Formation Occurs Primarily in the Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea by Local Buoyancy Forcing (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary density anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Larval behaviour, dispersal and population connectivity in the deep sea (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic (2023, Communications Earth & Environment)

Cunningham frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Neil Fraser, N. Penny Holliday, Clare Johnson, Alan Fox, and William E. Johns.

Publication venues regularly featuring Cunningham's work include Geophysical Research Letters, Ocean Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Nature Communications, and Communications Earth & Environment.

In addition to research articles, Cunningham has contributed to book publications such as Effects of climate change on the Atlantic Heat Conveyor relevant to the UK, published by the University of East Anglia in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Stuart A. Cunningham;Torsten Kanzow;Darren Rayner;Molly O. Baringer

  • Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25° N

    Harry L. Bryden;Hannah R. Longworth;Stuart A. Cunningham

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

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

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

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

  • Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N

    William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer;Lisa M. Beal;S. A. Cunningham

  • Observed decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation 2004–2012

    David A. Smeed;Gerard D. McCarthy;Stuart A. Cunningham;Eleanor Frajka-Williams

  • Seasonal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;S. A. Cunningham;W. E. Johns;J. J-M. Hirschi

  • Observed interannual variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5 N

    Gerard McCarthy;Eleanor Frajka‐Williams;William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer

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

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

  • Vivaldi 1991-A study of the formation, circulation and ventilation of Eastern North Atlantic Central Water

    R.T. Pollard;M.J. Grifftths;S.A. Cunningham;J.F. Read

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed Transport and Variability

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

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

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

  • Past, Present, and Future Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

    Meric Srokosz;M. Baringer;H. Bryden;Stuart Cunningham

  • Observed Flow Compensation Associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic

    Torsten Kanzow;Stuart A. Cunningham;Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi

  • The North Atlantic subpolar circulation in an eddy-resolving global ocean model

    Alice Marzocchi;Joël J.-M. Hirschi;N. Penny Holliday;Stuart A. Cunningham;Stuart A. Cunningham

  • Monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi;Torsten Kanzow;William E. Johns

  • A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    J Hirschi;J Baehr;Jochem Marotzke;J Stark

  • Atlantic Deep Water Formation Occurs Primarily in the Iceland Basin and Irminger Sea by Local Buoyancy Forcing

    Tillys Petit;M. Susan Lozier;Simon A. Josey;Stuart A. Cunningham

  • Arctic Mediterranean exchanges: a consistent volume budget and trends in transports from two decades of observations

    Svein Østerhus;Rebecca Woodgate;Hedinn Valdimarsson;Bill Turrell

  • Basinwide Integrated Volume Transports in an Eddy-Filled Ocean

    Torsten Kanzow;H.L. Johnson;D.P. Marshall;S.A. Cunningham

  • Variability of shallow and deep western boundary currents off the Bahamas during 2004–05: results from the 26°N RAPID–MOC Array

    W. E. Johns;L. M. Beal;M. O. Baringer;J. R. Molina

  • Meridional overturning circulation observations in the Subtropical North Atlantic

    O. M. Baringer;T. O. Kanzow;C. S. Meinen;S. A. Cunningham

Frequent Co-Authors

William E. Johns
William E. Johns University of Miami
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Harry L. Bryden
Harry L. Bryden University of Southampton
Christopher S. Meinen
Christopher S. Meinen Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society
David A. Smeed
David A. Smeed National Oceanography Centre
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science
Lisa M. Beal
Lisa M. Beal University of Miami
Molly O. Baringer
Molly O. Baringer Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Uwe Send
Uwe Send University of California, San Diego

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