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Reports
FOCUS Mid-Project Report
This report highlights key milestones, progress updates, challenges, and next steps for the project. Any questions or feedback? Reach out to the FOCUS project team via Jason Holt (jholt@noc.ac.uk) or Alycia Smith (alycia.smith@noc.ac.uk)
Publications
| Title/Year | Authors | DOI/Link |
|---|---|---|
| Automated detection of coastal upwelling in the Western Indian Ocean: Towards an operational “Upwelling Watch” system (2022) | Matt Hammond, Fatma Jebri, Meric Srokosz, Katya Popova | 10.3389/fmars.2022.950733 |
| Disruption of marine habitats by artificial light at night from global coastal megacities (2022) | Tim Smyth, A. E. Wright, A. Edwards-Jones, D. McKee, A. Queirós, O. Rendon, S. Tidau, T. W. Davies | 10.1525/elementa.2022.00042 |
| Future sea level rise dominates changes in worst case extreme sea levels along the global coastline by 2100 (2023) | Sveta Jevrejeva, J. Williams, M. Vousdoukas, L Jackson | 10.1088/1748-9326/acb504 |
| Reproducible and Relocatable Regional Ocean Modelling: Fundamentals and practices (2023) | Jeff Polton, James Harle, Jason Holt, Anna Katavouta, Dale Partridge, Jenny Jardine, Sarah Wakelin, Julia Rulent, Anthony Wise, Katherine Hutchinson, David Byrne, Diego Bruciaferri, Enda O'Dea, Michela De Dominicis, Pierre Mathiot, Andrew Coward, Andrew Yool, Julien Palmiéri, Gennadi Lessin, Claudia Gabriela Mayorga-Adame, Valérie Le Guennec, Alex Arnold, and Clément Rousset | gmd-2022-217 |
| Socio-oceanography: an opportunity to integrate marine social and natural sciences (2023) | Katya Popova, Yevgeny Aksenov, Laurent O. Amoudry, Amani Becker, Lucy Bricheno, Jennifer M. Brown, Michael A. Clare, Alan Evans, Claire Evans, Sara E. Fowell, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Zoe Jacobs, Daniel O. B. Jones, Angela Hibbert, Fran O’Hara, Emma McKinley, Marta Payo-Payo, Christopher R. Pearce, Sarah F. W. Taylor, Christine Sams, Andrew Yool | 10.3389/fmars.2023.1209356 |
| Are Near-Coastal Sea Levels Accelerating Faster Than Global during the Satellite Altimetry Era? (2023) | Ying Qu, Svetlana Jevrejeva and Hindumathi Palanisamy | 10.3390/atmos14101573 |
| Unraveling Regional Patterns of Sea Level Acceleration over the China Seas (2023) | Ying Qu, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Shijin Wang | 10.3390/rs15184448 |
| Faster, Better, Cheaper: Solutions to the Atmospheric Shipping Emission Compliance and Attribution Conundrum (2023) | Tim Smyth, Anthony Deakin, Jani Pewter, Darren Snee, Richard Proud, Ruud Verbeek, Vincent Verhagen, Pierre Paschinger, Thomas Bell, James Fishwick, Mingxi Yang | 10.3390/atmos14030500 |
| Impact of Mass Redistribution on Regional Sea Level Changes Over the South China Sea Shelves (2023) | Bijoy Thompson, S. Jevrejeva, J. Zachariah, D. G. Faller, P. Tkalich | 10.1029/2023gl105740 |
| Thermosteric and dynamic sea level under solar geoengineering (2023) | Chao Yue, Jevrejeva, Svetlana; Qu, Ying; Zhao, Liyun; Moore, John C. | 10.1038/s41612-023-00466-4 |
| Steeper size spectra with decreasing phytoplankton biomass indicate strong trophic amplification and future fish declines (2024) | Angus Atkinson, Elaine Fileman | 10.1038/s41467-023-44406-5 |
| Impact of Fluid Distribution and Petrophysics on Geophysical Signatures of CO2 Storage Sandstone Reservoirs (2024) | Ismael Falcon-Suarez, M.-D. Mangriotis, G. Papageorgiou, N. H. Mondol | 10.1029/2024JB029027 |
| Intra-scenario variability of trends and controls of near-bed oxygen concentration on the Northwest European Continental Shelf under climate change (2024) | Giovanni Galli, Sarah Wakelin, James Harle, Jason Holt, Yuri Artioli | 10.5194/bg-21-2143-2024 |
| Multi-model comparison of trends and controls of near-bed oxygen concentration on the northwest European continental shelf under climate change (2024) | Giovanni Galli, Sarah Wakelin, James Harle, Jason Holt, and Yuri Artioli | 10.5194/bg-21-2143-2024 |
| An exceptional phytoplankton bloom in the southeast Madagascar Sea driven by African dust deposition (2024) | John A. Gittings, Fatma Jebri, Meric Sroksz et al. | 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae386 |
| Absence of the Great Whirl giant ocean vortex abates productivity in the Somali upwelling region (2024) | Fatma Jebri, M. Srokosz, D.E. Raitsos, Z.L. Jacobs, A. Sanchez-Franks, E. Popova | s43247-023-01183-9 |
| Seascape carbon management beyond wetlands as eligible blue carbon activities: Scientific review (2024) | Ana Queirós, Mingxi Yang, Saskia Rühl, Cornelia Rindt, Melissa Ward and Steve Crooks | eprint/10128/1/ |
| Environmental change and connectivity drive coral reef fish abundance in the Western Indian Ocean (2024) | Laura Warmuth, Stephen Kelly, Melita A Samoilys, Ekaterina Popova, Catherine E I Head, Michael B Bonsall | 10.1093/icesjms/fsae125 |
| Darkening of the Global Ocean (2025) | Thomas Davies, Tim Smyth | 10.1111/gcb.70227 |
| Redefining the photic zone: beyond the autotroph-centric view of light in the ocean (2025) | Davies, T.W., Smyth, T. | 10.1038/s43247-025-02374-2 |
| A perspective on marine carbon dioxide removal from the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (2025) | H Findlay, K Grabb, RA Feely, EB Jewett, EF Keister, G Kitch, Y Artioli, P Bhadury, J Blackford, O Crabeck, A Ghosh, Y Li, KB Lowder, S Mehta, B Van Dam, H Beghoura, N Karo, A Horodysky, S Henige, SM Salaah, F Ragazzola, L Wright-Fairbanks | 10.5670/oceanog.2025.e308 |
| Ocean Acidification around the UK and Ireland (2025) | Helen Findlay, Y. Artioli, N. Greenwood, S. Hartman, A. Flohr, P. León, M. Stiasny, and M. Cronin | 10.14465/2025.reu03.oac |
| Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed (2025) | Helen Findlay, Richard A. Feely, Li-Qing Jiang, Greg Pelletier, Nina Bednaršek | 10.1111/gcb.70238 |
| Cold Spells, Fresh Waves, and the Biogeochemical Response in the North Atlantic Cold Anomaly Region (2025) | Fatma Jebri, Zoe L. Jacobs, Meric Srokosz, Ekaterina Popova, Susan E. Hartman, Simon A. Josey | 10.1029/2024JC022001 |
| Impact of waves on phytoplankton activity on the Northwest European Shelf: insights from observations and km-scale coupled models (2025) | Dale Partridge, Ségolène Berthou, Rebecca Millington, James Clark, Lucy Bricheno, Juan Manuel Castillo, Julia Rulent, and Huw Lewis | 10.5194/egusphere-2025-3654 |
| Seafloor marine heatwaves outpace surface events in the future on the northwestern European shelf (2025) | Robert Wilson, Yuri Artioli, Giovanni Galli, James Harle, Jason Holt, Ana M. Queirós, and Sarah Wakelin | 10.5194/os-21-1255-2025 |
| Consistency of clustering analysis of complex 3D ocean datasets (2026) | Rebecca Millington, Dale Partridge, Helen Powley, David Moffat, Gennadi Lessin, Jerry Blackford | 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103586 |