I am a physical oceanographer and I study basin-scale and global-scale circulations alongside their behaviours in climate models.

I lead the adjoint component of OceanBound, an ambitious project to study the role of ocean boundary pressures in the global ocean. As an adjoint modeller, I am using the ECCO state estimate to determine what external forces the boundary pressures are most sensitive to.

I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford in 2023. I studied the dynamics of the Weddell Gyre and its influence on Southern Ocean ventilation. I tackled this research by designing idealized models, developing diagnostic methods, analyzing Lagrangian trajectories, and exploring possibilities with pen and paper analysis. I continue to study the dynamics of the Weddell Gyre and enjoy a close collaboration with members of the SO-CHIC project (Southern Ocean-Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate).

Please reach out to me if you would like to meet or collaborate!

2023

• Sallée, J. B., and co-authors including Styles, A. F. (2023). Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381(2249), 20220056. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0056

2022

• Styles, A. F., Bell, M. J., Marshall, D. P., & Storkey, D. (2022). Spurious forces can dominate the vorticity budget of ocean gyres on the C-grid. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002884. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002884