I am very happy and proud to present my PhD thesis to you.
From alpha to beta ocean: Exploring the role of surface buoyancy fluxes and seawater thermal expansion in setting the upper ocean stratification
The thesis is a compilation of articles, which is made of the so-called “kappa” (a Swedish word concept that more or less means summary) and the appended articles. The articles can be found at the following links:
- Paper I: Caneill, R., Roquet, F., Madec, G., & Nycander, J. (2022). The Polar Transition from Alpha to Beta Regions Set by a Surface Buoyancy Flux Inversion. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52 (8), 1887–1902. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0295.1
- Paper II: Caneill, R., Roquet, F., & Nycander, J. (2023). Southern Ocean deep mixing band emerges from competition between winter buoyancy loss and stratification. submitted to Ocean Science. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2404
- Paper III: Caneill, R., & Roquet, F. (2023). Temperature versus salinity: Distribution of stratification control in the global ocean. in preparation for Ocean Science. link to the draft on my website
- Paper IV: Roquet, F., Ferreira, D., Caneill, R., Schlesinger, D., & Madec, G. (2022). Unique thermal expansion properties of water key to the formation of sea ice on Earth. Science Advances, 8 (46). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq0793
You can click on the cover below to access the pdf version of the thesis, or follow these links for only the kappa, 5.6MB, or the full thesis with appended articles, 50MB.
The defence will be held on January 18 in Gothenburg; a zoom link is to be announced.
The content of the thesis is licenced under a Creative Common Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), except for the figures (they have a copyright from the journals in which they were published or a copyright to their authors).
The thesis is also available online on handle.net, has ISBN numbers, and the sources have a DOI:
- Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2077/79117
- ISBN: 978-91-8069-555-8 (printed)
- ISBN: 978-91-8069-556-5 (pdf)
- DOI for the sources of this thesis: 10.5281/zenodo.10203249
I published the template of the thesis on Framagit under a MIT licence: https://framagit.org/rcaneill/phd-thesis-template