By Emeritus Professor Trevor McDougall

Books

McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2011, Getting Started with TEOS-10 and the Gibbs Seawater (GSW) Oceanographic Toolbox, http://www.teos-10.org/pubs/Getting_Started.pdf

McDougall TJ; Feistel R; Wright DG; Pawlowicz R; Millero FJ; Jackett DR; King BA; Marion GM; Seitz A; Spitzer P; Chen CTA, 2010, IOC, SCOR and IAPSO, 2010: The international thermodynamic equation of seawater – 2010: Calculation and use of thermodynamic properties, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Manuals and Guides No. 56, UNESCO (English)

Book Chapters

Polzin KL; McDougall TJ, 2021, 'Mixing at the ocean’s bottom boundary', in Ocean Mixing: Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts, pp. 145 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821512-8.00014-1

McDougall TJ, 2019, 'Neutral surfaces in the ocean, and the equation of state of seawater', in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, pp. 128 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11641-0

McDougall TJ, 2019, 'Neutral Surfaces in the Ocean, and the Equation of State of Seawater', in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, Third Edition: Volume 1-5, pp. V3-128-V3-134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11641-0

McDougall TJ; Feistel R; Pawlowicz R, 2013, 'Chapter 6 Thermodynamics of Seawater', in Ocean Circulation and Climate - A 21st Century Perspective, Elsevier, pp. 141 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-391851-2.00006-4

McDougall T; Feistel R; Pawlowicz R, 2013, 'Thermodynamics of Seawater', in Siedler G; Griffies S; Gould J; Church J (ed.), Open Circulation and Climate, Academic Press, pp. 141 - 158

McDougall TJ; Jackett DR, 2009, 'Neutral Surfaces and the Equation of State', in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, pp. 25 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-012374473-9.00802-X

McDougall TJ, 2004, 'Forward to the book Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models by SM Griffies', in , Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, pp. xxxiv

Toole JM; McDougall TJ, 2001, 'Mixing and stirring in the ocean interior', in Siedler G; Church JA; Gould J (ed.), Ocean Circulation and Climate, Academic Press, pp. 337 - 355

McDougall T, 1998, 'Three-Dimensional Residual-Mean Theory', in Chassignet EP; Verron J (ed.), Ocean Modelling and Parameterization, pp. 269 - 302

England M; Jackett DR; McDougall TJ, 1996, 'Global sea level rise', in Pittock AB; Whetton PH; Hennessey KJ (ed.), Climate Impacts Assessment: Development and Application of Climate Change Scenarios, pp. 43 - 46

McDougall TJ; Thorpe SA; Gibson CH, 1988, 'Small-scale turbulence and mixing in the ocean: A glossary', in Nihoul JCJ; Jamart BM (ed.), Small-Scale Turbulence and Mixing in the Ocean, Elsevier

McDougall TJ, 1988, 'Some Implications of Ocean Mixing for Ocean Modelling', in Nihoul JCJ; Jamart BM (ed.), Small-scale turbulence and mixing in the ocean, Elsevier, pp. 21 - 35

Journal articles

Kusters N; Groeskamp S; McDougall TJ, 2024, 'Spiralling Inverse Method: A New Inverse Method to Estimate Ocean Mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 54, pp. 2289 - 2309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-24-0009.1

McDougall TJ; Church JA; Zillman J, 2024, 'Angus McEwan 1937–2018', Historical Records of Australian Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr24005

McDougall TJ; Barker PM; Feistel R; Roquet F, 2023, 'A thermodynamic potential of seawater in terms of Absolute Salinity, Conservative Temperature, and in situ pressure', Ocean Science, 19, pp. 1719 - 1841, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1719-2023

Berglund S; Döös K; Groeskamp S; McDougall T, 2023, 'North Atlantic Ocean Circulation and Related Exchange of Heat and Salt Between Water Masses', Geophysical Research Letters, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100989

Lang Y; Stanley GJ; McDougall TJ, 2023, 'Spurious Dianeutral Advection and Methods for Its Minimization', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 53, pp. 1401 - 1427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-22-0174.1

Von Schuckmann K; Minière A; Gues F; Cuesta-Valero FJ; Kirchengast G; Adusumilli S; Straneo F; Ablain M; Allan RP; Barker PM; Beltrami H; Blazquez A; Boyer T; Cheng L; Church J; Desbruyeres D; Dolman H; Domingues CM; García-García A; Giglio D; Gilson JE; Gorfer M; Haimberger L; Hakuba MZ; Hendricks S; Hosoda S; Johnson GC; Killick R; King B; Kolodziejczyk N; Korosov A; Krinner G; Kuusela M; Landerer FW; Langer M; Lavergne T; Lawrence I; Li Y; Lyman J; Marti F; Marzeion B; Mayer M; MacDougall AH; McDougall T; Monselesan DP; Nitzbon J; Otosaka I; Peng J; Purkey S; Roemmich D; Sato K; Sato K; Savita A; Schweiger A; Shepherd A; Seneviratne SI; Simons L; Slater DA; Slater T; Steiner AK; Suga T; Szekely T; Thiery W; Timmermans ML; Vanderkelen I; Wjiffels SE; Wu T; Zemp M, 2023, 'Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?', Earth System Science Data, 15, pp. 1675 - 1709, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1675-2023

Li Y; Church JA; McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2022, 'Sensitivity of Observationally Based Estimates of Ocean Heat Content and Thermal Expansion to Vertical Interpolation Schemes', Geophysical Research Letters, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101079

Berglund S; Döös K; Groeskamp S; McDougall TJ, 2022, 'The downward spiralling nature of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29607-8

Holmes RM; Groeskamp S; Stewart KD; McDougall TJ, 2022, 'Sensitivity of a Coarse-Resolution Global Ocean Model to a Spatially Variable Neutral Diffusivity', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002914

McDougall TJ; Barker PM; Holmes RM; Pawlowicz R; Griffies SM; Durack PJ, 2021, 'The interpretation of temperature and salinity variables in numerical ocean model output and the calculation of heat fluxes and heat content', Geoscientific Model Development, 14, pp. 6445 - 6466, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6445-2021

Stanley GJ; McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2021, 'Algorithmic Improvements to Finding Approximately Neutral Surfaces', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002436

McDougall TJ; Barker PM; Stanley GJ, 2021, 'Spice Variables and Their Use in Physical Oceanography', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015936

McDougall TJ; Barker PM; Holmes RM; Pawlowicz R; Griffies SM; Durack PJ, 2021, 'The interpretation of temperature and salinity variables in numerical ocean model output, and the calculation of heat fluxes and heat content', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-426

McDougall T, 2020, 'Rejection from Ocean Science', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-2020-42-ec2

Holmes RM; McDougall TJ, 2020, 'Diapycnal transport near a sloping bottom boundary', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50, pp. 3253 - 3266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0066.1

McDougall T, 2020, 'Editorial Comment', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-2020-42-ec1

Groeskamp S; LaCasce JH; McDougall TJ; Rogé M, 2020, 'Full-Depth Global Estimates of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Mixing From Observations and Theory', Geophysical Research Letters, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089425

Barker PM; McDougall TJ, 2020, 'Two interpolation methods using multiply-rotated piecewise cubic hermite interpolating polynomials', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37, pp. 605 - 619, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0211.1

Döös K; Berglund S; Mcdougall T; Groeskamp S, 2020, 'The spiralling North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1459

Groeskamp S; Barker P; McDougall T; Abernathey R; Griffies S, 2020, 'VENM: An Algorithm to Accurately Calculate Neutral Slopes and Gradients', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5618

Lang Y; Stanley GJ; McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2020, 'A pressure-invariant neutral density variable for the world’s oceans', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50, pp. 3585 - 3604, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0321.1

McDougall TJ; Wotherspoon SJ; Barker PM, 2019, 'An accelerated version of Newton's method with convergence order 3+1', Results in Applied Mathematics, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rinam.2019.100078

Smythe-Wright D; John Gould W; McDougall TJ; Sparnocchia S; Woodworth PL, 2019, 'IAPSO: Tales from the ocean frontier', History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 10, pp. 137 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hgss-10-137-2019

Li Y; McDougall T; Keating S; DE LAVERGNE C; Madec G, 2019, 'Horizontal residual mean: Addressing the limited spatial resolution of ocean models', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, pp. 2741 - 2759, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0092.1

Vancoppenolle M; Madec G; Thomas M; McDougall TJ, 2019, 'Thermodynamics of Sea Ice Phase Composition Revisited', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, pp. 615 - 634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014611

Holmes RM; DE LAVERGNE C; McDougall TJ, 2019, 'Tracer transport within abyssal mixing layers', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49, pp. 2669 - 2695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0006.1

Groeskamp S; Barker PM; McDougall TJ; Abernathey RP; Griffies SM, 2019, 'VENM: An Algorithm to Accurately Calculate Neutral Slopes and Gradients', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, pp. 1917 - 1939, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001613

Holmes RM; de Lavergne C; Mcdougall TJ, 2018, 'Ridges, seamounts, troughs, and bowls: Topographic control of the dianeutral circulation in the abyssal ocean', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, pp. 861 - 882, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0141.1

McDougall TJ; Ferrari R, 2018, 'Reply to "Comment on 'Abyssal upwelling and downwelling driven by near-boundary mixing'"', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 48, pp. 749 - 753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0227.1

De Lavergne C; Madec G; Roquet F; Holmes RM; McDougall TJ, 2017, 'Abyssal ocean overturning shaped by seafloor distribution', Nature, 551, pp. 181 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24472

Barker PM; McDougall TJ, 2017, 'Stabilizing hydrographic profiles with minimal change to the water masses', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 34, pp. 1935 - 1945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0111.1

McDougall TJ; Groeskamp S; Griffies SM, 2017, 'Comment on tailleux, R. neutrality versus materiality: A thermodynamic theory of neutral surfaces. Fluids 2016, 1, 32', Fluids, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids2020019

Groeskamp S; Sloyan BM; Zika JD; McDougall TJ, 2017, 'Mixing inferred from an ocean climatology and surface fluxes', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47, pp. 667 - 687, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-16-0125.1

McDougall TJ; Ferrari R, 2017, 'Abyssal upwelling and downwelling driven by near-boundary mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47, pp. 261 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-16-0082.1

Griffies SM; Danabasoglu G; Durack PJ; Adcroft AJ; Balaji V; Böning CW; Chassignet EP; Curchitser E; Deshayes J; Drange H; Fox-Kemper B; Gleckler PJ; Gregory JM; Haak H; Hallberg RW; Heimbach P; Hewitt HT; Holland DM; Ilyina T; Jungclaus JH; Komuro Y; Krasting JP; Large WG; Marsland SJ; Masina S; McDougall TJ; George Nurser AJ; Orr JC; Pirani A; Qiao F; Stouffer RJ; Taylor KE; Treguier AM; Tsujino H; Uotila P; Valdivieso M; Wang Q; Winton M; Yeager SG, 2016, 'OMIP contribution to CMIP6: Experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project', Geoscientific Model Development, 9, pp. 3231 - 3296, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3231-2016

Ferrari R; Mashayek A; McDougall TJ; Nikurashin M; Campin JM, 2016, 'Turning ocean mixing upside down', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46, pp. 2239 - 2261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0244.1

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