By Emeritus Professor Trevor McDougall

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

Feistel R; Wielgosz R; Bell SA; Camoes MF; Cooper JR; Dexter P; Dickson AG; Fisicaro P; Harvey AH; Heinonen M; Hellmuth O; Kretzschmar HJ; Lovell-Smith JW; McDougall TJ; Pawlowicz R; Ridout P; Seitz S; Spitzer P; Stoica D; Wolf H, 2015, 'Metrological challenges for measurements of key climatological observables: Oceanic salinity and pH, and atmospheric humidity. Part 1: Overview', Metrologia, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/53/1/R1

McDougall TJ; Krzysik OA, 2015, 'Spiciness', Journal of Marine Research, 73, pp. 141 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1357/002224015816665589

Roquet F; Madec G; McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2015, 'Accurate polynomial expressions for the density and specific volume of seawater using the TEOS-10 standard', Ocean Modelling, 90, pp. 29 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.04.002

Li Y; McDougall TJ, 2015, 'Double-diffusive interleaving: Properties of the steady-state solution', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, pp. 813 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0236.1

Dewar WK; Schoonover J; Mcdougall TJ; Young WR, 2015, 'Semicompressible ocean dynamics', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, pp. 149 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0268.1

McDougall TJ; Barker PM, 2014, 'Comment on "buoyancy frequency profiles and internal semidiurnal tide turning depths in the oceans" by B. King et al.', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119, pp. 9026 - 9032, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010066

Groeskamp S; Zika JD; Sloyan BM; Mcdougall TJ; Mcintosh PC, 2014, 'A thermohaline inverse method for estimating diathermohaline circulation and mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, pp. 2681 - 2697, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-14-0039.1

McDougall TJ; Barker PM; Feistel R; Galton-Fenzi BK, 2014, 'Melting of ice and sea ice into seawater and frazil ice formation', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, pp. 1751 - 1775, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0253.1

McDougall TJ; Groeskamp S; Griffies SM, 2014, 'On geometrical aspects of interior ocean mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, pp. 2164 - 2175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0270.1

Groeskamp S; Zika JD; Mcdougall TJ; Sloyan BM; Laliberté F, 2014, 'The representation of ocean circulation and variability in thermodynamic coordinates', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, pp. 1735 - 1750, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0213.1

McDougall TJ; Wotherspoon SJ, 2014, 'A simple modification of Newton’s method to achieve convergence of order 1 + √ 2', Applied Mathematics Letters, 29, pp. 20 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2013.10.008

Graham FS; McDougall T, 2013, 'Quantifying the nonconservative production of conservative temperature, potential temperature, and entropy', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43, pp. 838 - 862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-0188.1

Pawlowicz R; McDougall T; Feistel R; Tailleux R, 2012, 'An historical perspective on the development of the Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater-2010', Ocean Science, 8, pp. 161 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-8-161-2012

McDougall TJ; Jackett DR; Millero FJ; Pawlowicz R; Barker PM, 2012, 'A global algorithm for estimating Absolute Salinity', Ocean Science, 8, pp. 1123 - 1134, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-8-1123-2012

Back to profile page