Dani Jones
Physical Oceanographer (Adjoint Modelling)
Biography
- Key expertise: large-scale circulation, mode water formation and export
- Toolbox: numerical models (idealised and realistic, forward and adjoint) and machine learning techniques (state estimation, unsupervised classification)
- Typical regions of study: Southern Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean
- Founder of the BAS Artificial Intelligence Lab
Research interests
- Ocean circulation and dynamics
- Mode and intermediate water formation and export
- Ocean-ice state estimation
- Unsupervised classification
- Air-sea gas exchange
- Adjoint ocean modelling
Jones, D.C., T. Ito, and N.S. Lovenduski (2011), The transient response of the Southern Ocean pycnocline to changing atmospheric winds, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15604, doi:10.1029/2011GL048145
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2023
McMonigal, Kay, Evans, Natalya, Jones, Dani ORCID record for Dani Jones, Brett, Jay, James, Reece C., Arroyo, Mar C., Gong, A-bel Y., Miller, Elizabeth C., Kelly, Colette, Middleton, Jule, Spear, Chris, Holmes, Wil, Lane, Dakota. (2023) Navigating Gender at Sea. AGU Advances, 4. 7 pp. 10.1029/2023AV000927
Aguiar, Wilton, Lee, Sang‐Ki, Lopez, Hosmay, Dong, Shenfu, Seroussi, Hélène, Jones, Dani C. ORCID record for Dani C. Jones, Morrison, Adele K.. (2023) Antarctic Bottom Water Sensitivity to Spatio‐Temporal Variations in Antarctic Meltwater Fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. 12 pp. 10.1029/2022GL101595
Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Dittus, Andrea J., Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Sinha, Bablu. (2023) Ocean Heat Content responses to changing Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing Strength: Regional and multi-decadal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128. 20 pp. 10.1029/2022JC018725
Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Meredith, Michael P. ORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Shuckburgh, Emily F., Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID record for Elizabeth C. Kent, Munday, David R. ORCID record for David R. Munday, Firing, Yvonne L. ORCID record for Yvonne L. Firing, King, Brian ORCID record for Brian King, Smyth, Timothy J., Leng, Melanie J. ORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Nurser, A.J. George, Hewitt, Helene T., Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID record for E. Povl Abrahamsen, Weiss, Alexandra, Yang, Mingxi, Bell, Thomas G., Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Owen, Robyn P., Grist, Jeremy P. ORCID record for Jeremy P. Grist, Blaker, Adam T. ORCID record for Adam T. Blaker, Biri, Stavroula ORCID record for Stavroula Biri, Yelland, Margaret J. ORCID record for Margaret J. Yelland, Pimm, Ciara, Zhou, Shenjie ORCID record for Shenjie Zhou, Harle, James, Cornes, Richard C. ORCID record for Richard C. Cornes. (2023) Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381. 25 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0070
Jones, Dani C. ORCID record for Dani C. Jones, Sonnewald, Maike, Zhou, Shenjie ORCID record for Shenjie Zhou, Hausmann, Ute, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Rosso, Isabella, Boehme, Lars, Meredith, Michael P. ORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.. (2023) Unsupervised classification identifies coherent thermohaline structures in the Weddell Gyre region. Ocean Science, 19. 857-885. 10.5194/os-19-857-2023
Fahrin, Fouzia, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Wu, Yan, Keeble, James, Archibald, Alexander T.. (2023) Technical note: Unsupervised classification of ozone profiles in UKESM1. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23. 19 pp. 10.5194/acp-23-3609-2023
2022
Furner, Rachel ORCID record for Rachel Furner, Haynes, Peter, Munday, Dave ORCID record for Dave Munday, Paige, Brooks, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2022) A sensitivity analysis of a regression model of ocean temperature. Environmental Data Science, 1. 28 pp. 10.1017/eds.2022.10
Sanders, Rachael N.C. ORCID record for Rachael N.C. Sanders, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Sinha, Bablu, Forget, Gael. (2022) Causes of the 2015 North Atlantic cold anomaly in a global state estimate. Ocean Science, 18. 953-978. 10.5194/os-18-953-2022
Morrison, Adele K., Waugh, Darryn W., Hogg, Andrew McC., Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Abernathey, Ryan P.. (2022) Ventilation of the Southern Ocean pycnocline. Annual Review of Marine Science, 14. 10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-011012
2021
Thomas, Simon D.A. ORCID record for Simon D.A. Thomas, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Faul, Anita ORCID record for Anita Faul, Mackie, Erik ORCID record for Erik Mackie, Pauthenet, Etienne. (2021) Defining Southern Ocean fronts using unsupervised classification. Ocean Science, 17. 18 pp. 10.5194/os-17-1545-2021
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Ceia, Filipe R., Murphy, Eugene ORCID record for Eugene Murphy, Delord, Karine, Furness, Robert W., Verdy, Ariane, Mazloff, Matthew, Phillips, Richard A., Sagar, Paul M., Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Schreiber, Ben, Thompson, David R., Torres, Leigh G., Underwood, Phillip J., Weimerskirch, Henri, Xavier, José C. ORCID record for José C. Xavier. (2021) Untangling local and remote influences in two major petrel habitats in the oligotrophic Southern Ocean. Global Change Biology, 27. 13 pp. 10.1111/gcb.15839
Andersson, Tom R. ORCID record for Tom R. Andersson, Hosking, J. Scott ORCID record for J. Scott Hosking, Pérez-Ortiz, María, Paige, Brooks, Elliott, Andrew, Russell, Chris, Law, Stephen, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Wilkinson, Jeremy, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Byrne, James ORCID record for James Byrne, Tietsche, Steffen, Sarojini, Beena Balan, Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Eduardo, Aksenov, Yevgeny ORCID record for Yevgeny Aksenov, Downie, Rod, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh. (2021) Seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting with probabilistic deep learning. Nature Communications, 12. 12 pp. 10.1038/s41467-021-25257-4
Sonnewald, Maike, Lguensat, Redouane, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Dueben, Peter D., Brajard, Julien, Balaji, Venkatramani. (2021) Bridging observations, theory and numerical simulation of the ocean using machine learning. Environmental Research Letters, 16. 28 pp. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac0eb0
Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey. (2021) Local and remote influences on the heat content of Southern Ocean mode water formation regions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126. 25 pp. 10.1029/2020JC016585
Twelves, Andrew G., Goldberg, Daniel N., Henly, Sian F., Mazloff, Matthew R., Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones. (2021) Self‐shading and meltwater spreading control the transition from light to iron limitation in an Antarctic coastal polynya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126. 10.1029/2020JC016636
2020
Mackie, Erik ORCID record for Erik Mackie, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh, Jones, Dan ORCID record for Dan Jones, Vaughan, David ORCID record for David Vaughan. (2020) How climate change is affecting sea levels. Weather, 75. 280-280. 10.1002/wea.3716
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Boland, Emma ORCID record for Emma Boland, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon ORCID record for Simon Josey, Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily. (2020) The sensitivity of Southeast Pacific heat distribution to local and remote changes in ocean properties. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50. 18 pp. 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0155.1
2019
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Boland, Emma ORCID record for Emma Boland, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh. (2019) Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124. 8647-8666. 10.1029/2019JC015460
Jones, Dan ORCID record for Dan Jones, Ito, Takamitsu. (2019) Gaussian mixture modeling describes the geography of the surface ocean carbon budget.. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Climate Informatics: CI 2019 Paris, France, October 2-4, 2019. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).
Duncan, David Ian, Eriksson, Patrick, Pfreundschuh, Simon, Klepp, Christian, Jones, Dan ORCID record for Dan Jones. (2019) On the distinctiveness of oceanic raindrop regimes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19. 6969-6984. 10.5194/acp-19-6969-2019
Jones, Dan ORCID record for Dan Jones, Holt, Harry, Meijers, Andrew ORCID record for Andrew Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh. (2019) Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124. 390-402. 10.1029/2018JC014629
2018
Jones, Dan ORCID record for Dan Jones, Shuckburgh, Emily, Hawkins, Ed. (2018) How is sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic changing?. Weather, 74. 30-30. 10.1002/wea.3381
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Forget, Gael, Sinha, Bablu, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh. (2018) Local and remote influences on the heat content of the Labrador Sea: an adjoint sensitivity study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. 2646-2667. 10.1002/2018JC013774
Mackay, Neill, Ledwell, James R., Messias, Marie-José, Naveira Garabato, Alberto C., Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Watson, Andrew J.. (2018) Diapycnal mixing in the Southern Ocean diagnosed using the DIMES tracer and realistic velocity fields. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. 2615-2634. 10.1002/2017JC013536
2017
Dittmar, Thorsten, Stubbins, Aron, Ito, Takamitsu, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones. (2017) Comment on “Dissolved organic sulfur in the ocean: Biogeochemistry of a petagram inventory”. Science, 356. 813-813. 10.1126/science.aam6039
Hammond, Mark D., Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones. (2017) Freshwater flux from ice sheet melting and iceberg calving in the Southern Ocean. Geosciences Data Journal, 3. 60-52. 10.1002/gdj3.43
2016
Pringle, GC, Jones, DC ORCID record for DC Jones, Goswami, S, Narayanan, SHK, Goldberg, D. (2016) Providing the ARCHER community with adjoint modelling tools for high-performance oceanographic and cryospheric computation. EPCC
Meijers, A.J.S. ORCID record for A.J.S. Meijers, Meredith, M.P. ORCID record for M.P. Meredith, Abrahamsen, E.P. ORCID record for E.P. Abrahamsen, Maqueda, M.A.M., Jones, D.C. ORCID record for D.C. Jones, Naveira Garabato, A.C.. (2016) Wind-driven export of Weddell Sea slope water. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121. 7530-7546. doi:10.1002/2016JC011757
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh, Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Haynes, Peter, McAufield, Ewa K., Mazloff, Matthew R.. (2016) How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121. 6558-6582. 10.1002/2016JC011680
Xavier, Jose ORCID record for Jose Xavier, Raymond, Ben, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Griffiths, Huw ORCID record for Huw Griffiths. (2016) Biogeography of cephalopods in the Southern Ocean using habitat suitability prediction models. Ecosystems, 19. 220-247. 10.1007/s10021-015-9926-1
2015
Ceia, Filipe R., Ramos, Jaime A., Phillips, Richard A., Cherel, Yves, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Vieira, Rui P., Xavier, Jose C. ORCID record for Jose C. Xavier. (2015) Analysis of stable isotope ratios in blood of tracked wandering albatrosses fails to distinguish a δ13C gradient within their winter foraging areas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 29. 2328-2336. doi:10.1002/rcm.7401
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Ito, Takamitsu, Birner, Thomas, Klocker, Andreas, Munday, David ORCID record for David Munday. (2015) Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45. 2991-3004. 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0034.1
2014
Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Ito, Takamitsu, Takano, Yohei, Hsu, Wei-Ching. (2014) Spatial and seasonal variability of the air-sea equilibration timescale of carbon dioxide. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28. 1163-1178. 10.1002/2014GB004813
2023
Supporting our Trans and Gender Diverse Colleagues
Blog 31 March, 2023
2018
Unsupervised clustering of Southern Ocean Argo float temperature profiles
Blog 7 June, 2018
Policy workshop summary: The impacts of machine learning on climate change modelling
Blog 7 June, 2018
2016
SHIP BLOG: Sea ice, science, and wildlife
Blog 10 April, 2016
2023
BAS science funded by Pushing the Frontiers scheme
News 22 May, 2023
2021
Artificial intelligence to help predict Arctic sea ice loss
News 26 August, 2021
2020
Fellowship success for leaders of the future
News 23 April, 2020
POSTPONED – Chat to your friendly neighbourhood climate scientists
Event 17 March, 2020
2018
Cambridge Science Festival: Sensing the climate discussion
Event 20 March, 2018
2015
Understanding the Paris Climate Summit (COP21)
Event 16 November, 2015
- Board, Cambridge Centre for Climate Science
- Senior Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge
- Steering Committee Member, BAS AI Lab