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Overview

Tom P. Rippeth is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, General Health Professions, and Geology.

Their research focuses extensively on topics related to Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Frequent co-authors in their scholarly outputs include Ben Lincoln, Brian Scannell, Markus Janout, Jonathan Sharples, and Ilker Fer.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean (2020), Journal of Climate
  • Tidally Forced Lee Waves Drive Turbulent Mixing Along the Arctic Ocean Margins (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Intensification of Near-Surface Currents and Shear in the Eastern Arctic Ocean (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure (2022), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Turbulent Mixing and the Formation of an Intermediate Nepheloid Layer Above the Siberian Continental Shelf Break (2021), Geophysical Research Letters

The most frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Oceanography
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • The Vertical Structure of Turbulent Dissipation in Shelf Seas

    John H. Simpson;William R. Crawford;Tom P. Rippeth;Andrew R. Campbell

  • Phytoplankton distribution and survival in the thermocline

    Jonanthan Sharples;C. Mark Moore;Tom P. Rippeth;Patrick M. Holligan

  • A novel technique for measuring the rate of turbulent dissipation in the marine environment.

    Philip J. Wiles;Tom P. Rippeth;John H. Simpson;Peter J. Hendricks

  • Comparing the performance of the Mellor‐Yamada and the κ‐ε two‐equation turbulence models

    Hans Burchard;Ole Petersen;Tom P. Rippeth

  • Spring‐neap modulation of internal tide mixing and vertical nitrate fluxes at a shelf edge in summer

    Jonathan Sharples;Jacqueline F. Tweddle;J. A. Mattias Green;Matthew R. Palmer

  • The Cycle of Turbulent Dissipation in the Presence of Tidal Straining

    Tom P. Rippeth;Neil R. Fisher;John H. Simpson

  • Reynolds Stress and Turbulent Energy Production in a Tidal Channel

    Tom P. Rippeth;Eirwen Williams;John H. Simpson

  • Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing

    Hans Burchard;Peter D. Craig;Johannes R. Gemmrich;Hans van Haren

  • Periodic stratification in the Rhine ROFI in the North Sea

    John H. Simpson;Wim G. Bos;Florian Schirmer;Alejandro J. Souza

  • 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

  • Measurement of the Rates of Production and Dissipation of Turbulent Kinetic Energy in an Energetic Tidal Flow: Red Wharf Bay Revisited

    Tom P. Rippeth;John H. Simpson;Eirwen Williams;Mark E. Inall

  • Weakening of cold halocline layer exposes sea ice to oceanic heat in the eastern Arctic Ocean

    Igor V. Polyakov;Igor V. Polyakov;Tom P. Rippeth;Ilker Fer;Matthew B. Alkire

  • Impact of nonlinear waves on the dissipation of internal tidal energy at a shelf break

    Mark E. Inall;Tom P. Rippeth;Toby J. Sherwin

  • Mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas: a shifting paradigm

    Tom P Rippeth

  • A prescriptive model of stratification induced by freshwater runoff

    John Simpson;Jonathan Sharples;Tom Rippeth

  • Physical controls on phytoplankton physiology and production at a shelf sea front: a fast repetition-rate fluorometer based field study

    C.M. Moore;D. Suggett;P.M. Holligan;J. Sharples

  • The semi-diurnal cycle of dissipation in a ROFI: model-measurement comparisons

    John H Simpson;Hans Burchard;Neil R Fisher;Tom P Rippeth

  • Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current.

    Y. D. Lenn;P. J. Wiles;S. Torres-Valdes;E. P. Abrahamsen

  • Intermittent Intense Turbulent Mixing under Ice in the Laptev Sea Continental Shelf

    Yueng-Djern Lenn;Tom P. Rippeth;Chris P. Old;Sheldon Bacon

  • The Contribution of Surface and Submesoscale Processes to Turbulence in the Open Ocean Surface Boundary Layer

    Christian E. Buckingham;Natasha S. Lucas;Stephen E. Belcher;Tom P. Rippeth

  • Forced oscillations near the critical latitude for diurnal-inertial resonance.

    J.H. Simpson;Patrick Hyder;T.P. Rippeth;I.M. Lucas

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Simpson
John H. Simpson Bangor University
Jonathan Sharples
Jonathan Sharples University of Liverpool
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Sheldon Bacon
Sheldon Bacon National Oceanography Centre
Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hilary Kennedy
Hilary Kennedy Bangor University
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Ilker Fer
Ilker Fer University of Bergen

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