Publications

Southern Ocean albedo, inter-hemispheric energy transports and the double ITCZ: global impacts of biases in a coupled model

Publication ID: pub.1029759247

Publication date: 03/06/2016

Keywords: Albedo; Climate Models; Energy Transport; Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ); Southern Ocean

A causal link has been invoked between inter-hemispheric albedo, cross-equatorial energy transport and the double-Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bias in climate models. Southern Ocean cloud biases are a major determinant of inter-hemispheric albedo biases in many models, including HadGEM2-ES, a fully coupled model with a dynamical ocean. In this study, targeted albedo corrections are applied […]

On which timescales do gas transfer velocities control North Atlantic CO2 flux variability?

Publication ID: pub.1020408928

Publication date: 31/05/2016

Keywords: Air-sea Flux; Carbon Sink; Flux Variability; Gas Transfer Velocity; North Atlantic Ocean; Ocean Model; Ocean Uptake; Salinity; Solubility; Temperature; Timescale

The North Atlantic is an important basin for the global ocean’s uptake of anthropogenic and natural carbon dioxide (CO2), but the mechanisms controlling this carbon flux are not fully understood. The air-sea flux of CO2, F, is the product of a gas transfer velocity, k, the air-sea CO2 concentration gradient, ΔpCO2, and the temperature- and […]

Authentic Leadership

Publication ID: pub.1114067706

Publication date: 28/05/2016

Keywords: Authentic Leader; Citizenship Behavior; Ethical Leader; Organizational Citizenship Behavior; Work Engagement

Water quality permitting: From end-of-pipe to operational strategies

Publication ID: pub.1046628009

Publication date: 27/05/2016

Keywords: Environment; Norwich; UK; Waste Disposal, Fluid; Waste Water; Water Quality

End-of-pipe permitting is a widely practised approach to control effluent discharges from wastewater treatment plants. However, the effectiveness of the traditional regulation paradigm is being challenged by increasingly complex environmental issues, ever growing public expectations on water quality and pressures to reduce operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions. To minimise overall environmental impacts from urban […]

Essential Features of Responsible Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology

Publication ID: pub.1027757175

Publication date: 04/05/2016

Keywords: Agriculture; Animals; Animals, Genetically Modified; Biotechnology; Community Participation; Crops, Agricultural; Genetic Engineering; Humans; Plants, Genetically Modified; Public Health; Risk Factors

Agricultural biotechnology continues to generate considerable controversy. We argue that to address this controversy, serious changes to governance are needed. The new wave of genomic tools and products (e.g., CRISPR, gene drives, RNAi, synthetic biology, and genetically modified [GM] insects and fish), provide a particularly useful opportunity to reflect on and revise agricultural biotechnology governance. […]

Contribution of sea-ice loss to Arctic amplification is regulated by Pacific Ocean decadal variability

Publication ID: pub.1004611384

Publication date: 02/05/2016

Keywords: Arctic; Arctic Amplification; Model Simulations; Observations; Pace of Arctic Warming; Pacific; Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO); Phase; Predictability; Processes and Feedbacks; Relationship; Sea-ice Loss

This study suggests that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation phase influences how much sea-ice loss contributes to Arctic amplification, with warming being larger during the negative phase with greater sea-ice loss.