Jacob Opher

PhD Student

Jacob Opher

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Jacob Opher

Biography

I’m a NERC EnvEast PhD student, working with Dr Alex Brearley in the polar oceans team. My research is about the sources of overturning water in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans and how they vary. This water feeds the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, an important climate system that transports heat to high latitudes. I am using measurements (moorings and CTDs) to investigate the variability of the boundary currents that flow parallel to Greenland – the nature of their variability and the processes that drive it.

Research interests

  • The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
  • Atmosphere-ocean interaction
  • Turbulent mixing processes
  • Arctic Ocean freshwater export
  • The sub-polar gyre
  • Multi-decadal salinity variability of the North Atlantic

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2020

Dye, S., Berx, B., Opher, Jacob ORCIDORCID record for Jacob Opher, Tinker, J.P., Renshaw, R.. (2020) Climate change and salinity of the coastal and marine environment around the UK.. MCCIP Science Review 2020. 27 pp. 10.14465/2020.arc04.sa

2019

Hendry, Katharine R., Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Robinson, Laura F., Annett, Amber, Badger, Marcus, Jacobel, Allison W., Ng, Hong Chin, Opher, Jacob ORCIDORCID record for Jacob Opher, Pickering, Rebecca A., Taylor, Michelle L., Bates, Stephanie L., Cooper, Adam, Cushman, Grace G., Goodwin, Claire, Hoy, Shannon, Rowland, George, Samperiz, Ana, Williams, James A., Achterberg, Eric P., Arrowsmith, Carol, Brearley, J. Alexander ORCIDORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Henley, Sian F., Krause, Jeffrey W., Leng, Melanie J. ORCIDORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Li, Tao, McManus, Jerry F., Meredith, Michael P. ORCIDORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Perkins, Rupert, Woodward, E. Malcolm S.. (2019) The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland. Progress in Oceanography, 176. 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102126