Dave Munday is a Physical Oceanographer in the Open Oceans group.

Previous Experience

• Apr 2007 – Dec 2014: PDRA at Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Sciences, Dept. of Physics, Univ. Oxford.
• Oct 2004 – Apr 2007: PDRA at Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. Reading.

Education

• Oct 2001 – Sep 2004: PhD student at Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. Reading.
• Oct 2000 – Aug 2001: MSc (Weather, Climate & Modelling) at Dept. of Meteorology, Univ. Reading.
• Oct 1997 – June 2000: BSc (Marine Science) at School of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Univ. Southampton.

Research interests

I am interested in the role of small-scale mesoscale eddies in the large-scale dynamics of the Southern Ocean (SO). My primary goal is to understand how eddies contribute to the volume transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the Residual Meridional Overturning Circulation (RMOC). These two problems are strongly linked via the ocean stratification/global pycnocline depth, which mesoscale eddies play a role in setting. Much of my recent work has focussed on the sensitivity of the ACC transport and/or RMOC to changes in wind stress. I have a strong interest in palaeoclimate and how the SO circulation might have altered over geological timescales, especially changes that might occur due to the tectonic rearrangement of continents and the opening of ocean gateways, e.g. Drake Passage or Tasman Seaway.

See below for more recent publications.

2015

Jones, D. C., T. Ito, T. Birner, A. Klocker, and D. Munday, 2015: Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the Southern Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45, 2991–3004, doi:10.1175/JPO–D–15–0034.1.

Munday, D. R. and X. Zhai, 2015: Sensitivity of Southern Ocean circulation to wind stress changes: Role of wind stress bulk formulae. Ocean Modell., 95, 15–24, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.08.004.

Munday, D. R., H. L. Johnson, and D. P. Marshall, 2015: The role of ocean gateways in the dynamics and sensitivity to wind stress of the early Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Paleoceanography, 30, 284–302, doi:10.1002/2014PA002675.

2014

Zhai, X. and D. R. Munday, 2014: Sensitivity of Southern Ocean overturning to wind stress changes: Role of surface restoring time scales. Ocean Modell., 84, 12–25, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.09.004.

Hogg, A. M. and D. R. Munday, 2014: Does the sensitivity of Southern Ocean circulation depend upon bathymetric details? Phil. Trans. R. Soc A, 372, doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0050.

Munday, D. R., H. L. Johnson, and D. P. Marshall, 2014: On the effect of mesoscale eddies on ocean carbon storage and atmospheric pCO2. Global Bio-geochem. Cycles, 28, 877–896, doi:10.1002/2014GB004836.

2013

Munday, D. R., H. L. Johnson, and D. P. Marshall, 2013: Eddy saturation of equilibrated circumpolar currents. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43, 507–532.

Munday, D. R. and X. Zhai, 2013: Modulation of eddy kinetic energy, temperature variance, and eddy heat fluxes by surface buoyancy forcing. Ocean Modell., 62, 27–38, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.11.003.

2011

Meredith, M. P., P. L. Woodworth, T. K. Chereskin, D. P. Marshall, L. C. Allison, G. R. Bigg, K. Donohue, K. J. Heywood, C. W. Hughes, A. Hibbert, A. M. Hogg, H. L. Johnson, B. A. King, H. Leach, Y. Lenn, M. A. Morales-Maqueda, D. R. Munday, A. C. Naveira-Garabato, C. Provost, and J. Sprintall, 2011: Sustained monitoring of the Southern Ocean at Drake Passage: Past achievements and future priorities. Rev. Geophys., 49, RG4005, doi:10.1029/2010RG000348.

Munday, D. R., L. C. Allison, H. L. Johnson, and D. P. Marshall, 2011: Remote forcing of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by diapycnal mixing. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L08609, doi:10.1029/2011GL046849.

2010

Allison, L. C., H. L. Johnson, D. P. Marshall, and D. R. Munday, 2010: Where do winds drive the Antarctic Circumpolar Current? Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L12605, doi:10.1029/2010GL043355.

Munday, D. R., D. P. Marshall, and M. D. Piggott, 2010: Idealised flow past an island in a dynamically adaptive finite element model. Ocean Dyn., 60, 835–850, doi:10.1007/s10236–010–0291–5.

2005

Munday, D. R. and D. P. Marshall, 2005: On the separation of a barotropic western boundary current from a cape. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 1726–1743.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. Creating Standards for Climate Experiments

   Eco-ICE studies whether making Arctic sea ice thicker could harm ocean life and creates tools to help decision-makers work out if climate projects are safe.

   Read more of: Creating Standards for Climate Experiments

   

2. Polar Ocean Mixing by Internal Tsunamis

   POLOMINTS investigates how glacier calving triggers internal tsunamis, reshaping polar ocean mixing and influencing climate, ecosystems, and carbon cycling.

   Read more of: Polar Ocean Mixing by Internal Tsunamis

   

3. Biogeochemical processes in polar ecosystems

   BIOPOLE studies how climate change is affecting the release of nutrients from the polar regions, and their redistribution around the world’s oceans.

   Read more of: Biogeochemical processes in polar ecosystems

   

4. Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Regulation

   Understanding the Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat, Carbon Sequestration and Transports

   Read more of: Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Regulation

   

• SMILES
• How the complexity of continental breakup controls ocean circulation (2018 – 2020), Australian Research Council Discover Project with PI Jo Whittaker and CoI’s Andreas Klocker, Simon Williams, Carmen Gaina & Sascha Brune.
• Visiting Scholar at the University of Tasmania (May/June 2018 & June 2019).

• Member, HPC Steering Committee
• Adjunct Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia