COMPASS: Climate-relevant Ocean Measurements and Processes on the Antarctic continental Shelf and Slope

Project Information

COMPASS

Grant agreement ID: 741120

DOI 10.3030/741120

Project closed

EC signature date 5 May 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 29 February 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 3 499 269,98

EU contribution € 3 499 269,98

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

A comparison of five surface mixed layer models with a year of observations in the North Atlantic

Author(s): Gillian Damerell; Karen J. Heywood; Daley Calvert; A. Grant; Michael J. Bell; Stephen E. Belcher
Published in: Progress in Oceanography, 2020, ISSN 0079-6611
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102316

Wintertime Polynya Structure and Variability From Thermal Remote Sensing and Seal-Borne Observations at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

Author(s): Elena Savidge; Tasha Snow; Matthew R. Siegfried; Yixi Zheng; Ana B. Villas Bôas; Guilherme A. Bortolotto; Lars Boehme; Karen E. Alley
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023, ISSN 1558-0644
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2023.3271453

Stirring across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current's southern boundary at the prime meridian, Weddell Sea

Author(s): Ria Oelerich, Karen J. Heywood, Gillian M. Damerell, Marcel du Plessis, Louise C. Biddle, and Sebastiaan Swart
Published in: Ocean Science, 2023, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/os-19-1465-2023

EUREC 4 A

Author(s): Bjorn Stevens; Sandrine Bony; David Farrell; Felix Ament; Alan Blyth; Christopher Fairall; Johannes Karstensen; Patricia K. Quinn; Sabrina Speich; Claudia Acquistapace; Franziska Aemisegger; Anna Lea Albright; Hugo Bellenger; Eberhard Bodenschatz; Kathy-Ann Caesar; Rebecca Chewitt-Lucas; Gijs de Boer; Julien Delanoë; Leif Denby; Florian Ewald; Benjamin Fildier; Marvin Forde; Geet George; Silke Gr
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021

Sources and Pathways of Glacial Meltwater in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

Author(s): Peter M. F. Sheehan; Karen J. Heywood; Andrew F. Thompson; M. Mar Flexas; Michael P. Schodlok
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl102785

Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate and associated fluxes in the western tropical Atlantic estimated from ocean glider observations

Author(s): Peter M. F. Sheehan; Gillian M. Damerell; Philip J. Leadbitter; Karen J. Heywood; Rob A. Hall
Published in: Ocean Science, 2023, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/os-19-77-2023

Seasonal extrema of sea surface temperature in CMIP6 models

Author(s): Yanxin Wang; Karen J. Heywood; David P. Stevens; Gillian Mary Damerell
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/os-2021-102

Glider Observations of Thermohaline Staircases in the Tropical North Atlantic Using an Automated Classifier

Author(s): Rollo, Callum; Heywood, Karen J.; Hall, Rob A.
Published in: Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2193-0864
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/gi-2021-27

The Antarctic Slope Current in a Changing Climate

Author(s): Andrew F. Thompson, Andrew L. Stewart, Paul Spence, Karen J. Heywood
Published in: Reviews of Geophysics, Issue 56/4, 2018, Page(s) 741-770, ISSN 8755-1209
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2018rg000624

OceanGliders: A Component of the Integrated GOOS

Author(s): Pierre Testor, Brad de Young, Daniel L. Rudnick, Scott Glenn, Daniel Hayes, Craig M. Lee, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Katherine Hill, Emma Heslop, Victor Turpin, Pekka Alenius, Carlos Barrera, John A. Barth, Nicholas Beaird, Guislain Bécu, Anthony Bosse, François Bourrin, J. Alexander Brearley, Yi Chao, Sue Chen, Jacopo Chiggiato, Laurent Coppola, Richard Crout, James Cummings, Beth Curry, Ruth Curry
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 6, 2019, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers In
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00422

Net community oxygen production derived from Seaglider deployments at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain site (PAP; northeast Atlantic) in 2012–13

Author(s): U. Binetti, J. Kaiser, G.M. Damerell, A. Rumyantseva, A.P. Martin, S. Henson, K.J. Heywood
Published in: Progress in Oceanography, Issue 183, 2020, Page(s) 102293, ISSN 0079-6611
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102293

First measurements of ocean and atmosphere in the Tropical North Atlantic using Caravela, a novel uncrewed surface vessel

Author(s): Siddle, E., Heywood, K., Webber, B. & Bromley, P.
Published in: Weather, 2021, Page(s) 200-204, ISSN 1477-8696
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/wea.4004

Wind‐Induced Variability of Warm Water on the Southern Bellingshausen Sea Continental Shelf

Author(s): Ria Oelerich; Karen J. Heywood; Gillian M. Damerell; Andrew F. Thompson
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 2022, ISSN 2169-9291
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2022jc018636

The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities

Author(s): Sebastiaan Swart; Marcel D. du Plessis; Sarah-Anne Nicholson; Pedro M. S. Monteiro; Lilian A. Dove; Sandy Thomalla; Andrew F. Thompson; Louise C. Biddle; Johan M. Edholm; Isabelle Giddy; Karen J. Heywood; Craig Lee; Amala Mahadevan; Geoff Shilling; Ronald Buss de Souza
Published in: Philosophical Transactions, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1471-2962
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0058

Winter seal-based observations reveal glacial meltwater surfacing in the southeastern Amundsen Sea

Author(s): Yixi Zheng, Karen J. Heywood, Benjamin G. M. Webber, David P. Stevens, Louise C. Biddle, Lars Boehme & Brice Loose
Published in: Nature Communications Earth and Environment, 2021, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00111-z