Dr Harry Leach
Physical Oceanographer, University of Liverpool

Personal Statement

Brief CV

• 1989-2019: Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Physical Oceanography, University of Liverpool
• 1977-1989: Research Scientist, Institute for Marine Science, Kiel
• 1976-1977: PostDoc, Oceanography Department, University of Southampton
• 1975-1976: Temporary Scientific Officer, Meteorological Office, Bracknell
• 1972-1975: Research Student, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, and University of Leeds
• 1969-1972: Undergraduate Student, University of Leeds

Research interests

• The Role of Mesoscale Eddies in the Circulation of the Ocean.
• Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Upper Ocean.
• Circulation of the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean.
• The Influence of Physical Processes on Biogeochemistry and Primary Productivity.
• Small scale mixing and its relationship to the larger scale flow field.
• Sea level variability and what it tells us about how the ocean and atmosphere work.

Recent Research Students

• Angela Hibbert, topic: "High Latitude Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling in Sea Level Records"
• Nuala Carson, topic: "Modelling Landfast Sea-Ice"
• Matthew Donnelly, topic: "Circulation of the Lazarev Sea using Inverse Methods"

Research Cruises

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise PS113 2018

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXXVIII/3 "Eddy Pump/SYSTCO" 2012

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXXIV/2 "LaKriS/SCACE/SYSTCO/IGY" 2007-2008

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXXIII/2 "LaKriS" 2005-2006

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXXI/3 "EIFEX" 2004

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXVIII/2 "EisenEx" 2000

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXVI/3 1999

Link to "Polarstern"-Cruise ANTXIII/2 1995-1996

Recent Publications

• Leach, H, and V. Strass, 2019, Cyclonic Eddies and Upper-Thermocline Finescale Structures in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Ocean Dynamics, 69(2), 157-173. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-018-1241-x [HL-Az 7.2.66]
• Donnelly, M., H. Leach and V. Strass, 2017, Modification of the deep salinity-maximum in the Southern Ocean by circulation in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the Weddell Gyre. Ocean Dynamics, 67(7), 813-838. DOI 10.1007/s10236-017-1054-3. [HL-Az 7.2.65]
• Strass, V. H., H. Leach, H. Prandke, M. Donnelly, A. U. Bracher and D. A. Wolf-Gladrow, 2017, The physical environmental conditions for biogeochemical differences along the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Atlantic Sector during late austral summer 2012. Deep-Sea Res. II, 138, 6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.05.018 [HL-Az 7.2.58]
• Hibbert, A., S. J. Royston, K. J. Horsburgh, H. Leach and A. Hisscott, 2015, An empirical approach to improving tidal predictions using recent real-time tide gauge data. J. Oper. Oceanogr., 8(1), 40-51, doi: 10.1080/1755876X.2015.1014641. [HL-Az 7.2.61]
• Smetacek, Victor, Christine Klaas, Volker H. Strass, Philipp Assmy, Marina Montresor, Boris Cisewski, Nicolas Savoye, Adrian Webb, Francesco d’Ovidio, Jesús M. Arrieta, Ulrich Bathmann, Richard Bellerby, Gry Mine Berg, Peter Croot, Santiago Gonzalez, Joachim Henjes, Gerhard J. Herndl, Linn J. Hoffmann, Harry Leach, Martin Losch, Matthew M. Mills, Craig Neill, Ilka Peeken, Rüdiger Röttgers, Oliver Sachs, Eberhard Sauter, Maike M. Schmidt, Jill Schwarz, Anja Terbrüggen, & Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, 2012, Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom. Nature, 487, 313-319. doi: 10.1038/nature11229. [HL-Az. 7.2.56]
• Meredith, Michael P., Philip L. Woodworth, Teresa K. Chereskin, David P. Marshall, Lesley C. Allison, Grant R. Bigg, Kathy Donohue, Karen J. Heywood, Chris W. Hughes, Angela Hibbert, Andrew McC. Hogg, Helen L. Johnson, Loïc Jullion, Brian A. King, Harry Leach, Yueng-Djern Lenn, Miguel A. Morales Maqueda, David R. Munday, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Christine Provost, Jean-Baptiste Sallée and Janet Sprintall, 2011, Sustained monitoring of the Southern Ocean at Drake Passage: past achievements and future priorities. Reviews of Geophysics, 49, RG4005, doi:10.1029/2010RG000348. [HL-Az. 7.2.52]
• Brandt, A.; Bathmann, U.; Brix, S.; Cisewski, B., Flores, H.; Göcke, C.; Janussen, D.; Krägefsky, S.; Kruse, S.; Leach, H., Linse, K.; Peeken, I.; Riehl, T.; Sauter, E.; Sachs, O.; Schüller, M.; Schrödl, M.; Schwabe, E.; Strass, V.; van Franeker, J. A.; Wilmsen, E., 2011, Maud Rise – a snapshot through the water column. Deep-Sea Res. II. 58, 1962-1982. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.01.008 [HL-Az. 7.2.53]
• Flores H., van Franeker J. A., Cisewski B., Leach H., Van de Putte A., Meesters H. W. G., Bathmann U., Wolff W. J., 2011, Macrofauna under sea ice and in the open surface layer of the Lazarev Sea, Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 58, 1948-1961, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.01.010 [HL-Az 7.2.45]
• Cisewski, Boris, Volker H. Strass, Harry Leach,, 2011, Circulation and transport of water masses in the Lazarev Sea, Antarctica, during summer and winter 2006. Deep-Sea Research 1, 58, 186-199. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.12.001 [HL-Az 7.2.48]
• Leach, H., V. H. Strass and B. Cisewski, 2011, Modification by Lateral Mixing of the Warm Deep Water entering the Weddell Sea in the Maud Rise Region. Ocean Dynamics, 61, (1), 51-68. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0342-y [HL-Az 7.2.44]
• Hibbert A, Leach H, Woodworth P, Hughes C, Roussenov V. 2010. Quasi-biennial modulation of the Southern Ocean coherent mode. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 136: 755–768. DOI:10.1002/qj.581 [HL-Az. 7.2.46]
• Hibbert, A., H. Leach, V. Strass and B. Cisewski, 2009, Mixing in Cyclonic Eddies in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Journal of Marine Research, 67, 1-23. DOI: 10.1357/002224009788597935. [HL-Az. 7.2.42].

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