Professor Richard G Williams
University of Liverpool Department of Earth Ocean and Ecological Sciences
Professor, Earth And Planetary Sciences
United Kingdom
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My Publications
Why do the latest climate models differ in how much surface warming increases with carb...
Environmental Research Letters
May 2020
Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CMIP6 models, and their comparison...
December 2019
Supplementary material to "Carbon-concentration and carbon-climate feedbacks in CM...
December 2019
Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks Operating in the Climate System
Current Climate Change Reports
November 2019
Internal Tides Drive Nutrient Fluxes Into the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum Over Mid‐ocean R...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
August 2019
Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks
Geophysical Research Letters
June 2019
Overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic
Science
January 2019
Connecting surface warming to carbon emissions - atmospheric and oceanic viewpoints
Geophysical Research Letters
May 2018
How much time is left before we reach global warming targets of 1.5°C or 2°C?
Nature Geoscience
January 2018
Sensitivity of global surface warming to carbon emissions in a suite of climate models
Journal of Climate
December 2017
On how surface warming continues after carbon emissions cease
Geophysical Research Letters
October 2017
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing...
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
April 2017
Variations in the difference between mean sea level measured either side of Cape Hatter...
Climate Dynamics
November 2016
Quantifying the drivers of ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
July 2016
A new metric defining how the winds and ocean eddies in the Southern Ocean alter atmosp...
Climate Dynamics
May 2016
Volcanic ash as an oceanic iron source and sink
Geophysical Research Letters
March 2016
A framework to understand how global surface warming connects to carbon emissions
Environmental Research Letters
January 2016
How does ocean heat content change over the North Atlantic Ocean?
Journal of Climate
December 2015
Physical controls of variability in North Atlantic phytoplankton communities
Limnology and Oceanography
December 2014
A single equation connecting global surface warming with carbon emissions
Nature Geoscience
December 2014
Mean sea-level variability along the northeast American Atlantic coast and the roles of...
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
December 2014
A ventilation-based framework to explain the regeneration-scavenging balance of iron in...
Geophysical Research Letters
October 2014
Evidence for production and lateral transport of dissolved organic phosphorus in the ea...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
August 2014
The impact of fine-scale turbulence on phytoplankton community structure
Limnology & Oceanography Fluids & Environments
April 2014
How ocean circulation affects the pattern of warming in the North Atlantic Ocean
Journal of Climate
January 2014
The paradox of the plankton: species competition and nutrient feedback sustain phytopla...
Marine Ecology Progress Series
September 2013
Water Mass Transformations in the Southern Ocean Diagnosed from Observations: Contrasti...
Journal of Physical Oceanography
July 2013
Internal Wave Reflection on Shelf Slopes with Depth-Varying Stratification
Journal of Physical Oceanography
February 2013
How the winds in the Southern Ocean alter atmospheric CO2 by upwelling of carbon-rich d...
Climate Dynamics
January 2013
How warming and steric sea level rise relate to cumulative carbon emissions
Geophysical Research Letters
October 2012
Sea level changes at Ascension Island in the last half century
African Journal of Marine Science
October 2012
Oceanography: Centennial warming of ocean jets
Nature Climate Change
January 2012
Nutrient streams in the North Atlantic: Advective pathways of inorganic and dissolved o...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
November 2011
The supply of excess phosphate across the Gulf Stream and the maintenance of subtropica...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
November 2011
Oceanography: Ocean eddies and plankton blooms
Nature Geoscience
October 2011
Internal tides, nonlinear internal wave trains, and mixing in the Faroe-Shetland Channel
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
March 2011
The shaping of storm tracks by mountains and ocean dynamics
Weather
November 2010
Opposing decadal changes for the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Nature Geoscience
October 2010
Opposing decadal changes for the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Nature Geoscience
September 2010
Modelling the effects of chromatic adaptation on phytoplankton community structure in t...
Marine Ecology Progress Series
May 2010
Water-mass transformation in the shelf seas
Journal of Marine Research
March 2010
On the Buoyancy Forcing and Residual Circulation in the Southern Ocean: The Feedback fr...
Journal of Physical Oceanography
February 2010
Distribution of dissolved organic nutrients and their effect on export production over ...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
November 2009
Are mesoscale eddies in shelf seas formed by baroclinic instability of tidal fronts?
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
October 2009
The Effect of Ocean Dynamics and Orography on Atmospheric Storm Tracks
Journal of Climate
July 2009
Climate sensitivity to the carbon cycle modulated by past and future changes in ocean c...
Nature Geoscience
January 2009
Ocean dynamics and the carbon cycle (ISBN 978-0-521-84369-0)
January 2009
Analytical relationships between atmospheric carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, and ocea...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
September 2008
Boundary wave communication of bottom pressure and overturning changes for the North At...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
August 2008
Phosphorus cycling in the North and South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyres
Nature Geoscience
June 2008
The Spatial Pattern and Mechanisms of Heat-Content Change in the North Atlantic
Science
February 2008
Meridional coherence of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Geophysical Research Letters
December 2007
How widespread and important is N2fixation in the North Atlantic Ocean?
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
November 2007
Ocean and Atmosphere Storm Tracks: The Role of Eddy Vorticity Forcing
Journal of Physical Oceanography
September 2007
A twenty year reversal in water mass trends in the subtropical North Atlantic
Geophysical Research Letters
June 2007
Ocean-atmosphere partitioning of anthropogenic carbon dioxide on centennial timescales
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
March 2007
Topographic Control of Basin and Channel Flows: The Role of Bottom Pressure Torques and...
Journal of Physical Oceanography
September 2006
Does the transport of dissolved organic nutrients affect export production in the Atlan...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
July 2006
The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme: A contextual view 1995–2005
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
July 2006
Nutrient streams and their induction into the mixed layer
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
March 2006
When Are Eddy Tracer Fluxes Directed Downgradient?
Journal of Physical Oceanography
February 2006
Role of bottom water transport and diapycnic mixing in determining the radiocarbon dist...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 2004
The Role of Sloping Sidewalls in Forming Potential Vorticity Contrasts in the Ocean Int...
Journal of Physical Oceanography
April 2003
Comparing the overflow of dense water in isopycnic and cartesian models with tracer obs...
Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
May 2001
Estimating the convective supply of nitrate and implied variability in export productio...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
December 2000
The role of eddies in the isopycnic transfer of nutrients and their impact on biologica...
Journal of Marine Research
November 2000
Impact of the circulation on Sapropel Formation in the eastern Mediterranean
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
June 2000
Estimating climatological age from a model-derived oxygen–age relationship in the Medit...
Journal of Marine Systems
December 1998
Oceanography: Eddies make ocean deserts bloom
Nature
July 1998
The Ekman transfer of nutrients and maintenance of new production over the North Atlantic
Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
February 1998
Inferring the Subduction Rate and Period over the North Atlantic
Journal of Physical Oceanography
July 1993
Cooling Parsons’ Model of the Separated Gulf Stream
Journal of Physical Oceanography
December 1990
The Influence of Air–Sea Interaction on the Ventilated Thermocline
Journal of Physical Oceanography
September 1989
Modification of ocean eddies by air-sea interaction
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 1988
