Dr Jeff Polton

Research interests

Improved model representation of coastal ocean mixing: Observation motived improvement of numerical simualtion of shallow seas mixing. Including optical processes and turbulence.

Wave induced influences on the ocean mixed layer: Using numerical simulations to investigate processes that influence the Ekman layer mean flow, the interactions between internal waves and surface waves and understanding the effects on upper ocean turbulence and ocean mixing.

Current Appointments

Honorary Lecturer in the University of Liverpool, Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences.

Selected publications

2009:A wave averaged energy equation: Comment on "Global Estimates of Wind Energy Input to Subinertial Motions in the Ekman-Stokes Layer" by Bin Liu, Kejian Wu and Changlong Guan. Jeff A. Polton, J. Oceanogr. Soc. Japan, 65 (5), pp665-668. Abstract&PDF.

2009:A Hybrid Spectral/Finite-difference Large-eddy Simulator of Turbulent Processes in the Ocean, Andres E. Tejada-Martınez, Chester E. Grosch, Ann E. Gargett, Jeff A. Polton, Jerome A. Smith, Jennifer A. MacKinnon. Ocean Modelling. 30, pp115-142. Abstract.

2008:Rapid generation of high-frequency internal waves beneath a wind and wave forced oceanic surface mixed-layer. Jeff A. Polton, Jerome A. Smith, J. A. MacKinnon and Andres E. Tejada-Martínez, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13602, doi:10.1029/2008GL033856. Abstract&PDF.

2007:Langmuir Turbulence and deeply penetrating jets in an unstratified mixed layer. Jeff A. Polton and Stephen E. Belcher, JGR-Oceans, 112, C09020, doi:10.1029/2007JC004205. Abstract&PDF.

2007:Overturning Cells in the Southern Ocean and subtropical gyres. Jeff A. Polton and David P. Marshall, Ocean Sci, 3(1), pp17-30. Abstract&PDF.

2006:Control of large-scale ocean heat transport by small-scale mixing. Paola Cessi, W.R. Young and Jeff A. Polton. J Phy Oceanogr, 36, pp1877-1894. Abstract&PDF.

2005:The role of the wave-induced Stokes-Coriolis forcing on the wind-driven mixed layer. Jeff A. Polton, David M. Lewis and Stephen E. Belcher. J Phy Oceanogr, 35(4), pp444-457. Abstract&PDF.

2003:Understanding the Structure of the Subtropical Thermocline. Jeff A. Polton and David P. Marshall, J Phy Oceanogr, 33(6), pp1240-1249. Abstract&PDF.

An International Perspective on Graduate Education in Physical Oceanography. Holger Brix, James L. Hench, Helen L. Johnson, T. M. Shaun Johnston, Jeff A. Polton, Moninya Roughan and Pierre Testor, Oceanography, 16(3), pp128-133. Abstract&PDF.

2002:Home-made barometers under pressure. Jeff A. Polton. Weather, 57(7), pp255-258. PDF

2002:Understanding the Vertical Structure of the Subtropical Thermocline. Jeff A. Polton. PhD thesis, Reading, UK. Abstract&PDF

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Further selection of author's POL publications.