Dr. Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda

Current projects
Ocean fluxes (led by Chris Hughes, POL). Focuses on using sea level and bottom pressure measurements to monitor ocean flows.

West Atlantic Variability Experiment, WAVE (led by Chris Hughes, POL; Ric Williams, University of Liverpool; David Marshall, University of Reading). This project is part of NERC's RAPID thematic programme on rapid climate change. The project combines ongoing and historical hydrographic and bottom pressure measurements in the North Atlantic with data from conceptual and general circulation ocean models aiming at better understanding the dynamics of the meridional overturning circulation.

Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison Project, AOMIP (led by Andrey Proshutinsky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution). Researchers from the USA, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Russia and the UK are collaborating in this project that aims at improving the representation of Arctic ocean and sea-ice dynamics in existing regional and global general circulation models.

Research interests
Large-scale ocean, sea-ice and iceberg dynamics.

Stability of ice sheets.

Climatic role of the oceans and maritime and land ice masses.

Ocean, ice and climate modelling. Development of algorithms for the solution of geophysical partial differential equations.

Publications

Biggs N. R. T, M. A. Morales Maqueda and A. J. Willmott, 2000: Polynya flux model solutions incorporating a parameterisation for the collection thickness of consolidated new ice. J. Fluid Mech., 408, 179-204.

Morales Maqueda M. A. and A. J. Willmott, 2000: A two-dimensional time-dependent model of a latent heat coastal polynya. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 1281-1304

Bjornsson H., A. J. Willmott, L. A. Mysak and M. A. Morales Maqueda, 2001: Polynya Simulations: A Comparison of a Flux Model with a High Resolution Dynamic-Thermodynamic Sea Ice Model. Tellus, 53, 245-265.

Morales Maqueda M. A. and S. Rahmstorf, 2002: Did Antarctic sea-ice expansion cause glacial CO2 decline? Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 111-113.

Tear, S., A. J. Willmott, M. A. Morales Maqueda and N. R. T. Biggs, 2003: One-dimensional models for closure of a coastal latent heat polynya. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 33, 329-342.

Fichefet, T., H. Goosse and M. A. Morales Maqueda, 2003: A hindcast simulation of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice variability, 1955-2001. Polar Res., 22, 91-98.

Morales Maqueda, M. A., N. R. T. Biggs and A. J. Willmott, 2004: Polynyas and climate: An overview of observations and modelling. Rev. Geophys., 42, RG1004, doi:10.1029/2002RG000116.

Uotila, P., D. M. Holland, M. A. Morales Maqueda, S. Häkkinen, G. Holloway, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, M. Steele, N. Yakovlev, J. Zhang and A. Proshutinsky, 2005: An energy-diagnostics intercomparison of coupled ice-ocean Arctic models. Ocean Modelling, 11, 1-27.

Morales Maqueda, M. A., and A. J. Willmott, 2005. Modelling of high latitude continental shelf circulation. Contribution to Coastal Ocean Circulation Dynamics in Coupled Coastal Wind, Wave and Current Dynamics (eds. Mooers, C., P. Craig and N. Huang), Working Group 111, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Cambridge University Press, submitted.

Further selection of author's POL publications.