Dr Clare F. Postlethwaite

Current projects
Modelling Arctic shelf seas. This is a RAPID funded project. An existing sea ice model has been coupled to the POL Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS) and applied to the Barents and Kara Seas. The project is specifically looking at how to parameterise small scale sea ice processes such as polynya and lead formation that are unresolved in Global Climate Models.

Research interests
Observing and modelling sea ice processes.
Dense water formation.
Oceanographic tracers of water mass ventilation.

Selected publications
Postlethwaite, C.F., Tattersall, G.R., Morales Maqueda, M.A., Holt, J. and Willmott, in prep. The effect of tides on dense water formation in Arctic shelf seas.

C. F. Postlethwaite, E. J. Rohling, W. J. Jenkins and C. F. Walker, 2005. A tracer study of ventilation in the Japan/East Sea. Deep Sea Research II, Vol. 52, pp1684-1704.

D. Hahm, C. F. Postlethwaite, K. Tamaki and K.-R. Kim, 2004. Mechanisms controlling the distribution of helium and neon in the Arctic Seas: the case of the Knipovich Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 229, pp125-139.

G. F. Lane-Serff, D. A. Smeed and C. Postlethwaite, 2000. Multi-layer hydraulic exchange flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 416, pp269-296.

Further selection of author's POL publications.