Cowton TR, Slater DA, Inall ME (2023) Subglacial-Discharge Plumes Drive Widespread Subsurface Warming in Northwest Greenland's Fjords. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(15), e2023GL103801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103801

 

Meredith, M.P., Inall, M.E., Brearley, J.A., Ehmen, T., Sheen, K., Munday, D., Cook, A., Retallick, K., Van Landeghem, K., Gerrish, L., Annett, A., Carvalho, F., Jones, R., Naveira Garabato, A., Bull, C., Wallis, B., Hogg, A. and Scourse., J. 2022. Internal tsunamigenesis and ocean mixing driven by glacier calving in Antarctica. Science Advances, 8(47), p.eadd0720, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add0720

Inall ME, Brearley JA, Henley SF, Fraser AD, Reed S (2021) Landfast ice controls on turbulence in Antarctic coastal seas. JGR Oceans https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017963 

Li F, Lozier MS, Bacon S, Bower AS, Cunningham SA, de Jong MF, deYoung B, Fraser N, Fried N, Han G, Holliday NP, Holte J, Houpert L, Inall ME, Johns WE, Jones S, Johnson C, Karstensen J, Le Bras IA, Lherminier P, Lin X, Mercier H, Oltmanns M, Pacini A, Petit T, Rickart RS, Rayner D, Straneo F, Thierry V, Visbeck M, Yahayaev I & Zhou-Show C (2021) Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary desity anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation. Nature Communications 12: 3002 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23350-2  

Jones, S.C., Inall, M.E., Porter, M., Graham, J.A., Cottier, F. (2020) Storm-driven across-shelf oceanic flows into coastal waters. Ocean Science 16(2) 389-403. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-389-2020 

M.S. Lozier, F. Li, S. Bacon, F. Bahr, A.S. Bower, S.A. Cunningham, M.F. de Jong, L. de Steur, B. deYoung, J. Fischer, S.F. Gary, B.J.W. Greenan, N.P. Holliday, A. Houk, L. Houpert, M.E. Inall, W.E. Johns, H.L. Johnson, C. Johnson, J. Karstensen, G. Koman, I.A. Le Bras, X. Lin, N. Mackay, D.P. Marshall, H. Mercier, M. Oltmanns, R.S. Pickart, A.L. Ramsey, D. Rayner, F. Straneo, V. Thierry, D.J. Torres, R.G. Williams, C. Wilson, J. Yang, I. Yashayaev, J. Zhao (2019) A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic. Science, 363 (6426), 516-521: doi: 10.1126/science.aau6592

Holt J et al (2018) Climate-driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean can greatly reduce the circulation of the North Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 

Evans DG, Lucas NS, Hemsley V, Frajika-Williams E, Garbato ACN, Martin A, Painter SC, Inall ME, Palmer MR (2018) Annual cycle of turbulent dissipation estimated from Seagliders. Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079966

Fraser, NJ and Inall, ME (2018) Influence of Barrier Wind Forcing on Heat Delivery Towards the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (accepted) doi: 10.1002/2017JC013464

Gallego, A, O’Hara Murray, RB, Berx, B, Turrell, B, Beegle-Krause, CJ, Inall, M, Sherwin, T, Siddorn, J, Wakelin, S, Vlasenko, V, Hole, LR, Dagestad, K-F, Rees, J, Short, L, Rønningen, P, Main, CE, Legrand, S, Gutierrez, T, Witte, U, Mulanaphy, N (2018) Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges. Marine Pollution Bulletin 127: 484-504. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002

Aleynik, D., Inall, M. E., Dale, A. & Vink, A. (2017) Impact of remotely generated eddies on plume dispersion at abyssal mining sites in the Pacific. Scientific Reports 7, 16959, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16912-2

Toberman, M., M. Inall, T. Boyd, E. Dumount, and C. Griffiths (2017), Nonlinear internal waves and plumes generated in response to sea-loch outflow, AUV, and time-lapse photography observations. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, doi:10.1002/ 2016JC012208.

Robert Marsh, Ivan D. Haigh, Stuart A. Cunningham, Mark E. Inall, Marie Porter, and Ben I. Moat (2017)
Large-scale forcing of the European Slope Current and associated inflows to the North Sea, Ocean Science, 13, 315-335, doi:10.5194/os-13-315-2017

Inall, M.E., et al., MASSMO3: Comparison between glider data, WeStCOMS model and Hydrobase3 observational climatology, in SAMS Reports. 2017, SAMS: Oban.

Vlasenko, V., et al., Focusing of baroclinic tidal energy in a canyon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016. in press.

Stephenson, G.R., J.A.M. Green, and M.E. Inall, Systematic bias in baroclinic energy estimates in shelf seas. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2016.

Siemering, B., et al., Phytoplankton distribution in relation to environmental drivers on the North West European shelf sea. PloS one, 2016.

Porter, M., et al., Drifter observations in the summer time Bay of Biscay slope current. Journal of Marine Systems, 2016. 157: p. 65-74.

Porter, M., et al., Glider observations of enhanced deep water upwelling at a shelf break canyon: a mechanism for cross-slope carbon and nutrient exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016. in press.

Nilsen, F., et al., A Simple Shelf Circulation Model - Intrusion of AtlanticWater on the West Spitsbergen Shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2016. 46.

Lozier, M.S., et al., Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: a new international ocean observing system. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2016.

Fraser, N.J., et al., Air-sea interaction in an Arctic fjord using glider based observations. Continental Shelf Research, 2016. submitted.

Brearley, J.A., et al., Controls on turbulent mixing on the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf. Deep Sea Research II, 2016. in press.

Aleynik, D., et al., Remotely Wind-generated Eddies Impact an Abyssal Polymetallic Mining Site in the Pacific. Nature Communications, 2016. under review.

Stephenson, G.R., et al., Baroclinic energy flux at the continental shelf edge modified by wind-mixing. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015. 42(6): p. 1826-1833.

Sherwin, T.J., et al., Deep eddies stir the surface layers of the central Rockall Trough. Ocean Science, 2015. in press.

Sherwin, T.J., et al., Deep drivers of mesoscale circulation in the central Rockall Trough. Ocean Science, 2015. 11(3): p. 343-359.

Luckman, A., et al., Calving rates at tidewater glaciers vary strongly with ocean temperature. Nat Commun, 2015. 6.

Inall, M.E., et al., Shelf/fjord exchange driven by coastal-trapped waves in the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2015. 120(12): p. 8283-8303.

Dale, A.C. and M.E. Inall, Tidal mixing processes amid small-scale, deep-ocean topography. Geophysical Research Letters, 2015. 42(2): p. 484-491.

Vlasenko, V., et al., Tidal energy conversion in a global hot spot: On the 3-D dynamics of baroclinic tides at the Celtic Sea shelf break. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2014. 119(6): p. 3249-3265.

Stashchuk, N., et al., Horizontal dispersion in shelf seas: High resolution modelling as an aid to sparse sampling. Progress in Oceanography, 2014. 128: p. 74-87.

Palmer, M.R., et al., Turbulence and Mixing by Internal Waves In The Celtic Sea Determined From Ocean Glider Microstructure Measurements. Journal of Marine Systems, 2014. 144: p. 57-69.

Inall, M.E., et al., Oceanic heat delivery via Kangerlugssuaq fjord to the south-east Greenland ice sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2014. 119.

Hopkins, J.E., et al., Storms modify baroclinic energy fluxes in a seasonally stratified shelf sea: Inertial-tidal interaction. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2014. 119(10): p. 6863-6883.

Vlasenko, V., et al., Generation of baroclinic tides over an isolated underwater bank. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2013. 118(9): p. 4395-4408.

Vlasenko, V., N. Stashchuk, and M. Inall, Three dimensional dynamics of baroclynic tides in the Celtic Sea on the results of in-situ observations and numerical modelling, in 3rd Norway Scotland Symposium on Internal Waves. 2013: Oslo.

Sharples, J., B.E. Scott, and M.E. Inall, From physics to fishing over a shelf sea bank. Progress in Oceanography, 2013. 117: p. 1-8.

Priede, I.G., et al., Does presence of a Mid Ocean Ridge enhance biomass and biodiversity? PLOS ONE, 2013. 8(5).

Priede, I.G., et al., The ecosystem of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the sub-polar front and Charlie–Gibbs Fracture Zone; ECO-MAR project strategy and description of the sampling programme 2007–2010. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2013. 98: p. 220-230.

Priede, I.G., et al., The ECO-MAR (Ecosystem of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Sub-Polar Front and Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone) project: description of the benthic sampling programme 2007–2010. Marine Biology Research, 2013. 9(5-6): p. 624-628.

Palmer, M.R., et al., Variable behavior in pycnocline mixing over shelf seas. Geophysical Research Letters, 2013. 40: p. 161-166.

Palmer, M.R., M.E. Inall, and J. Sharples, The physical oceanography of Jones Bank: A mixing hotspot in the Celtic Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 2013. 117: p. 9-24.

Johnson, C., M. Inall, and S. Häkkinen, Declining nutrient concentrations in the northeast Atlantic as a result of a weakening Subpolar Gyre. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2013. 82: p. 95-107.

Inall, M.E., D. Aleynik, and C. Neil, Horizontal advection and dispersion in a stratified shelf sea: The role of inertial oscillations. Progress in Oceanography, 2013. 117: p. 25-36.

Gillibrand, P., et al., A box model of the seasonal exchange and mixing in regions of restricted exchange: application to two contrasting Scottish inlets. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2013. 43: p. 144-159.

Steele, E., et al., Cooling of the West Spitsbergen Current: AUV-based turbulence measurements west of Svalbard, in IEEE OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. 2012, IEEE. p. 1-7.

Sole, A.J., et al., Increased glacier runoff enhances the penetration of warm Atlantic water into a large Greenland fjord. The Cryosphere Discussions, 2012. 6: p. 4861-4896.

Nash, J.D., et al., Are any coastal internal tides predictable? Oceanography, 2012. 25(2): p. 80-95.

Inall, M., et al. AUV observations of surface mixing and bubble entrainment in the Clyde estuary, Scotland. in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), 2012 IEEE/OES. 2012.

Tett, P., et al., Carrying and assimilative capacities: the ACExR-LESV model for sea-loch aquaculture. Aquaculture Research, 2011. 42: p. 51-67.

Inall, M.E., et al., Internal Tide coherence and decay over a wide Shelf Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 2011. 38.

Inall, M.E. and P.A. Gillibrand, The physics of mid-latitude fjords: a review Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2010. 344: p. 17-33.

Boyd, T.J., et al., AUV-based observations of mixing in the tidal outflow from a Scottish Sea Loch. IEEE-OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), 2010.

Portilla, E., et al., Description and sensitivity analysis for the LESV model: Water quality variables and the balance of organisms in a fjordic region of restricted exchange. Ecological Modelling, 2009. 220(18): p. 2187-2205.

Inall, M.E., Internal wave induced dispersion and mixing on a sloping boundary. Geophysical Research Letters, 2009. 36.

Inall, M., et al., On the oceanographic variability of the North-West European Shelf to the West of Scotland. Journal of Marine Systems, 2009. 77(3): p. 210-226.

Cromey, C.J., et al., Modelling the impact of cod (Gadus morhua L) farming in the marine environment-CODMOD. Aquaculture, 2009. 289(1-2): p. 42-53.

Sherwin, T.J., et al., Quantifying the overflow across the Wyville Thomson Ridge into the Rockall trough. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 2008. 55(4): p. 396-404.

Stashchuk, N., M. Inall, and V. Vlasenko, Analysis of supercritical stratified tidal flow in a Scottish Fjord. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2007. 37(7): p. 1793-1810.

Rippeth, T.P., et al., Turbulent dissipation in shelf seas: a response to "Observations of Biologically Generated Turbulence in a Coastal Inlet". Science Electronic Letters, 2007.

Cottier, F.R., et al., Wintertime warming of an Arctic shelf in response to large-scale atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 2007. 34(10).

Gillibrand, P.A. and M.E. Inall, Improving assimilative capacity modelling for Scottish coastal waters: I. A model of physical exchange in Scottish sea lochs. 2006, SAMS: Oban. p. 25.

Janzen, C.D., et al., Across-sill circulation near a tidal mixing front in a broad fjord. Continental Shelf Research, 2005. 25(15): p. 1805-1824.

Inall, M.E., et al., HOMER: Early results from a novel seabed-resident water column profiler. Oceans 2005 - Europe, Vols 1 and 2. 2005. 1252-1255.

Inall, M.E., Turbulence measurements in fjords, in Marine Turbulence: Theories, Observations and Models, H.Z. Baumert, J.H. Simpson, and J. Sunderman, Editors. 2005, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. p. 340 - 345.

Inall, M., et al., Evolution and distribution of TKE production and dissipation within stratified flow over topography. Geophysical Research Letters, 2005. 32(8).

Cottier, F.R., et al., Water mass modification in an Arctic fjord through cross-shelf exchange: The seasonal hydrography of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2005. 110(C12).

Inall, M., et al., Sill dynamics and energy transformation in a jet fjord. Ocean Dynamics, 2004. 54(3-4): p. 307-314.

Cottier, F., M. Inall, and C. Griffiths, Seasonal variations in internal wave energy in a Scottish sea loch. Ocean Dynamics, 2004. 54(3-4): p. 340-347.

Rippeth, T.P., et al., Measurement of the rates of production and dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy in an energetic tidal flow: Red Wharf Bay revisited. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2003. 33(9): p. 1889-1901.

Inall, M.E. and C.R. Griffiths, The Tiree Passage Time Series:1981-2003. 2003, Scottish Association for Marine Science: Oban. p. 22.

Cottier, F.R. and M.E. Inall, Tidal response in sea lochs - a case of waves versus jets. Ocean Challenge, 2003. 12(3): p. 24-27.

Sherwin, T.J., M.E. Inall, and R. Torres, The seasonal and spatial variability of small-scale turbulence at the Iberian margin. Journal of Marine Research, 2002. 60(1): p. 73-100.

Rippeth, T.P. and M.E. Inall, Observations of the internal tide and associated mixing across the Malin Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2002. 107(C4).

Inall, M.E. and T.P. Rippeth, Dissipation of tidal energy and associated mixing in a wide fjord. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2002. 2: p. 219-240.

Holliday, N.P., et al., SEA7 Data Report: Physical Oceanography. 2002, DTI.

Austin, W.E.N. and M.E. Inall, Deep-water renewal in a Scottish fjord: temperature, salinity and oxygen isotopes. Polar Research, 2002. 21(2): p. 251-257.

Joint, I., et al., Two Lagrangian experiments in the Iberian Upwelling System: tracking an upwelling event and an off-shore filament. Progress in Oceanography, 2001. 51(2-4): p. 221-248.

Inall, M.E., G.I. Shapiro, and T.J. Sherwin, Mass transport by non-linear internal waves on the Malin Shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 2001. 21(13-14): p. 1449-1472.

Howe, J.A., et al., A side-scan sonar image of a glacially-overdeepened sea loch, upper Loch Etive, Argyll. Scottish Journal of Geology, 2001. 37: p. 3-10.

Barton, E.D., et al., Vertical structure, turbulent mixing and fluxes during Lagrangian observations of an upwelling filament system off Northwest Iberia. Progress in Oceanography, 2001. 51(2-4): p. 249-267.

Richards, K.J. and M.E. Inall, The upper ocean heat content of the western equatorial Pacific: processes controlling its change during the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2000. 105(C8): p. 19575-19590.

Inall, M.E., T.P. Rippeth, and T.J. Sherwin, Impact of nonlinear waves on the dissipation of internal tidal energy at a shelf break. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2000. 105(C4): p. 8687-8705.

Inall, M.E. and T.P. Rippeth. Internal Friction in Shelf and Coastal Seas. in Fifth International Symposium on Stratified Flows. 2000. University of British Columbia.

Guizien, K., et al., Baroclinic tides at a north-west European margin: Analytical modelling compared to in situ data, in Proceedings of the Ninth, J.S. Chung, et al., Editors. 1999. p. 181-186.

Guizien, K., E. Barthelemy, and M.E. Inall, Internal tide generation at a shelf break by an oblique barotropic tide: Observations and analytical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 1999. 104(C7): p. 15655-15668.

Richards, K.J. and M.E. Inall, Upper ocean heat budget, 5S-5N, in WMO WCRP Report WCRP-107. 1998.

Inall, M.E., K.J. Richards, and G. Eldin, The changing structure of the upper ocean in the western equatorial Pacific during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 1998. 103(C10): p. 21385-21400.

Sherwin, T.J., et al., Linear and non-linear internal tides around the European Atlantic shelf edge, in Proceedings of the Sixth, J.S. Chung, M. Olagnon, and C.H. Kim, Editors. 1996. p. 131-137.

Richards, K.J., M.E. Inall, and N.C. Wells, The Diurnal mixed layer and upper ocean heat budget in the western equatorial Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, 1995. 100: p. 6865-6879.

Richards, K.J., et al., The large scale response of the upper ocean to atmospheric forcing during TOGA-COARE, in International Scientific Conference on TOGA. 1995.

Inall, M.E. and P. P., Sea ice conditions around Svalbard, in Reports on Polar Research. 1992, Alfred Wegener Institute. p. 92-115.

Lecturing

Marine Science BSc: 3rd year module 'Ocean Circulation and Climate' (teaching coastal half of module)

Marine Science with Physical Oceanography and Robotics BSc: 4th year module 'Coastal and Shelf Seas Dynamics'

UNIS Air-Sea-Ice Interaction: Guest lecturer since 2014

 

Current research students

Jamie Rodgers: Sea Ice Retreat - using AUVs to measure the turbulent polar oceans. PhD. University of the Highlands and Islands

James Coogan: Where AUVs dare: Svalbard's subglacial discharge plumes. PhD. University of the Highlands and Islands

 

List of alumni research students

Neil Fraser: Impact of variable ocean/shelf exchange on glacial dynamics is SE Greenland. PhD 2018. University of Edinburgh

Matt Toberman: Buoyant plumes and non-linear internal waves, a view from above and below: Time-lapse photography and AUV based microstructure profiler observations. PhD 2015. UHI/University of Aberdeen

Emily Venables. PhD 2011. UHI/University of Aberdeen

 

Other education roles

I was co-developer of the UHI Marine Science BSc (Hons) programme

PhD external examiner (9 to date)

Policy roles

Since Jan 2019: Member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council

Since Mar 2021: Member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council

 

Professional affiliations

• >Fellow, Institute of Physics
• >Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• >Honorary Professor, Edinburgh University School of Geosciences since March 2015
  
  

Professional activities

• >NERC Marine Facilities Advisory Board: Chair
• >Chair of Marine Sensors Board (£15M Oceanids programme on marine robotics
• >Ocean Processes Exchange Group - advisory committee to DEFRA
• >Geophysical Research Letters: Associate Editor 2014-2017
• >US Gordon Research Conferences: Steering Committee, 2013-2015
• >NERC Peer Review College: Member 2005 – 2010
• >Prince2 project management and senior management trained
  
  

Relevant research expeditions

25 years of experience in the field, from equatorial waters to Arctic and Antarctic waters, sea ice and ice sheets

Other measures of esteem

Geophysical Research Letters Editor’s special highlight paper selection (two occasions):

• >Inall, M.E., D.L. Aleynik, T.J. Boyd, M. Palmer, and J. Sharples, 2011.Internal Tide coherence and decay over a wide Shelf Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 38.
• >Cottier, F.R., F. Nilsen, M.E. Inall, S. Gerland, V. Tverberg, and H. Svendsen, 2007.Wintertime warming of an Arctic shelf in response to large-scale atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(10).

Journal of Geophysical Research, front cover highlight, February 2014:

• >Inall, M.E., T. Murray, F. Cottier, K. Scharrer, T.J. Boyd, K.J. Heywood, and S.L. Bevan, 2014.Oceanic heat delivery via Kangerlugssuaq fjord to the south-east Greenland ice sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119.

Recent media coverage

BBC Radio Scotland: Brainwaves programme Series 6, 23 & 27 Jan 2019 - Loch Ness, A Monster of a loch

Employment history

Since 2015 Director, Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society

2010-14 Associate Director Research. SAMS

2009-10 Reader. SAMS

2005-09 Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Physics, Technology and Sea Ice

1998-2005 Lecturer in Marine Physics. SAMS

1995-98 Postdoctoral Research Associate. University of Wales, Bangor

1990-92 Research Associate. Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University

 

Qualifications

1995 PhD. Southampton University

1990 MSc Oceanography. Southampton University

1988 BSc (Hons) Physics. Edinburgh University