Dan Jones

Physical Oceanographer (Adjoint Modelling)

Dan Jones

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Dan Jones

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

2019

Jones, Dan ORCIDORCID 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).

Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Boland, Emma ORCIDORCID record for Emma Boland, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCIDORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A., Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCIDORCID 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. 10.1029/2019JC015460

Duncan, David Ian, Eriksson, Patrick, Pfreundschuh, Simon, Klepp, Christian, Jones, Dan ORCIDORCID 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 ORCIDORCID record for Dan Jones, Holt, Harry, Meijers, Andrew ORCIDORCID record for Andrew Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCIDORCID 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, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Forget, Gael, Sinha, Bablu, Josey, Simon A., Boland, Emma J.D. ORCIDORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCIDORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCIDORCID 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 ORCIDORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCIDORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID 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. ORCIDORCID 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. ORCIDORCID 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 ORCIDORCID 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. ORCIDORCID record for A.J.S. Meijers, Meredith, M.P. ORCIDORCID record for M.P. Meredith, Abrahamsen, E.P. ORCIDORCID record for E.P. Abrahamsen, Maqueda, M.A.M., Jones, D.C. ORCIDORCID 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. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCIDORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCIDORCID 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 ORCIDORCID record for Jose Xavier, Raymond, Ben, Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Griffiths, Huw ORCIDORCID 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

Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Ito, Takamitsu, Birner, Thomas, Klocker, Andreas, Munday, David ORCIDORCID 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

Ceia, Filipe R., Ramos, Jaime A., Phillips, Richard A., Cherel, Yves, Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Vieira, Rui P., Xavier, Jose C. ORCIDORCID 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

2014

Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID 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