Christian Buckingham
Dr Christian E. Buckingham is an early-career scientist with expertise in physical oceanography. While the majority of his research has been focused on observations of upper ocean turbulence, his present research seeks to disentangle very similar dynamics in a deep-ocean canyon. Here, dense waters exit the Weddell Sea and eventually form a portion of the Antarctic Bottom Water—i.e. waters influencing the large-scale overturning circulation. Dr Buckingham holds a EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship at IUEM / Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Plouzané, France and, together with a team of scientists, he will be modelling these flows in nested, high-resolution model simulations. Unique to his study, his project makes use of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) moored observations (2015-2017) to better constrain our understanding of flows in this canyon. His collaborators include UK, US and French scientists.
ARTICLES
Buckingham, C. E., Z. Khaleel, A. Lazar, A. P. Martin, J. T. Allen, A. C. Naveira Garabato, A. F. Thompson and C. Vic (2017). Testing Munk’s hypothesis for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi:10.1002/2017JC012910. (pdf)
Buckingham, C. E., A. C. Naveira Garabato, A. F. Thompson, L. Brannigan, A. Lazar, D. P. Marshall, A. J. George Nurser, G. Damerell, K. J. Heywood, and S. E. Belcher (2016). Seasonality of submesoscale flows in the ocean surface boundary layer. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2016GL068009. (pdf)
Thompson, A. F., A. Lazar, C. E. Buckingham, A. C. Naveira Garabato, G. M. Damerell, and K. J. Heywood (2016). Open-ocean submesoscale motions: A full seasonal cycle of mixed layer instabilities from gliders. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1285–1307, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-15-0170.1. (pdf)
Buckingham, C. E., P. C. Cornillon, F. Schloesser, and K. M. Obenour (2014). Global observations of quasi-zonal bands in microwave sea surface temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119(8), 4840–4866, doi:10.1002/2014JC010088. (pdf)
Buckingham, C. E. and P. C. Cornillon (2013). The contribution of eddies to striations in absolute dynamic topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118(1), 448–461, doi:10.1029/2012JC008231. (pdf)
Buckingham, C. E., T. Marchok, I. Ginis, L. Rothstein, and D. Rowe (2010). Short- and Medium-Range Prediction of Tropical and Transitioning Cyclone Tracks within the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecasting System. Weather and Forecasting, 25(6), 1736–1754, doi:10.1175/2010WAF2222398.1. (pdf)
Buckingham, C. E., N. Lucas, A. Naveira Garabato, T. Rippeth, and coauthors (2017). Submesoscale instabilities and enhanced dissipation at ocean fronts, in preparation.
Yu, X., A. C. Naveira Garabato, A. P. Martin, C. E. Buckingham, and L. Brannigan (2017). Vertical flow and restratification in the upper ocean by mesoscale and submesoscale processes, in revision.
BOOK CHAPTER
Cornillon, P. C., E. Firing, A. F. Thompson, L. Ivanov, I. Kamenkovich, C. E. Buckingham and I. Afanasayev. “Jets in nature: oceans”. In: Jets in Nature. Ed. by B. Galperin, Cambridge University Press, Chap. 10, 1-329, in revision.