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 Forward to the book Fundamentals of Ocean Climate Models by SM Griffies, 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, edn. NATO ADVANCED SCIENCE INSTITUTES SERIES, SERIES C, MATHEMATI, SPRINGER, LES HOUCHES, FRANCE, pp. 269 - 302, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000077543200012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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

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

Dewar WK; Schoonover J; McDougall T; Klein R, 2016, 'Semicompressible ocean thermodynamics and Boussinesq energy conservation', Fluids, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids1020009

Pawlowicz R; Feistel R; McDougall TJ; Ridout P; Seitz S; Wolf H, 2015, 'Metrological challenges for measurements of key climatological observables Part 2: Oceanic salinity', Metrologia, 53, pp. R12 - R25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/53/1/R12

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