JOURNAL ARTICLES
Submitted:
1) Bhadouriya, A., Gayen, B., Sohail, T., Silvano, A., Mathpal, R. K., & Klewicki, J. Cyclostrophic convective eddies govern particle pathways in high-latitude oceans. Submitted to Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (2025).
2) Aguiar, W., Sohail, T., Morrison, A., Ong, E., Boeira Dias, F., Huneke, W. G., Spence, P., & England, M. H. Reassessing the role of the Antarctic Slope Current in poleward ocean heat transport. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (2025). Preprint
3) Kolbusz, J., Harrison, D., Jones, N. L., O’Callaghan, J., Sohail, T., Stewart, H. Bond, T. & Jamieson, A. Bottom mixed layer derivation and spatial variability over the central and eastern abyssal Pacific Ocean. Submitted to Ocean Science (2025). Preprint
4) Sohail, T., Zika, J. D. & Ehmen, T. How accurate are salinity measurements around Antarctica? A machine learning based approach. Submitted to Machine Learning: Earth (2025).
5) Sohail, T., & Zika, J. D. Global air-sea heat and freshwater fluxes constrained by ocean observations. Submitted to Earth System Science Data (2025). Preprint
Published:
6) Piedagnel, E., Sohail, T., & Zika, J. D. Mapping ocean salinity data using Gaussian Mixture Modelling. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems (2025), 4, e240089. doi: 10.1175/AIES-D-24-0089.1.
7) Bisits, J. I., Zika, J. D., & Sohail, T. Cabbeling as a catalyst and driver of turbulent mixing. Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2025), 1011:A17. doi: 10.1017/jfm.2025.349.
8) Sohail, T., Gayen, B., & Klocker, A. Decline of Antarctic Circumpolar Current due to polar ocean freshening. Environmental Research Letters (2025), 20, 3, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/adb31c.
9) Zika, J. D.* & Sohail, T.* An optimal transformation method for inferring ocean tracer sources and sinks. Geoscientific Model Development (2024), 17, 8049–8068, doi:10.5194/gmd-17-8049-2024 . (Asterisks (*) indicate equal-contribution authors).
10) Mackay, N., Sohail, T., Zika, J.D., Williams, R.G., Andrews, O., & Watson, A.J. An optimal transformation method applied to diagnosing the ocean carbon sink. Geoscientific Model Development (2024), 17, 5987–6005, doi:10.5194/gmd-17-5987-2024.
11) Luke G. Bennetts, Callum J. Shakespeare, Catherine A. Vreugdenhil, Annie Foppert, Bishakhdatta Gayen, Amelie Meyer, Adele K. Morrison, Laurie Padman, Helen E. Phillips, Craig L. Stevens, Alessandro Toffoli, ... Madelaine G. Rosevear, Taimoor Sohail, Paul Spence, Geoffrey J. Stanley. Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves. Reviews of Geophysics (2024), 62, e2022RG000781. doi:10.1029/2022RG000781
12) Sohail, T. & Zika, J.D. Unsupervised classification identifies warm, fresh and dense regimes of the Antarctic margins. Journal of Physical Oceanography (2024), 54, 1229–1242. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-23-0153.1
13) Sohail, T., Irving, D. B., Zika, J.D. & Gregory, J.M. Anthropogenic aerosols offsetting ocean warming less efficiently since the 1980s. Geophysical Research Letters (2023), 50, e2023GL105374. doi:10.1029/2023GL105374
14) Sohail, T. Committed future ice-shelf melt. Nature Climate Change (2023), 13, 1164–1165, doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01817-y [Not Peer Reviewed]
15) Sohail, T., Holmes, R. M., Zika, J. D. Watermass co-ordinates isolate the historical ocean warming signal. Journal of Climate (2023), 36, 3063–3081, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0363.1
16) Sohail, T., Zika, J. D., Irving, D. B. Church, J. A. Observed poleward freshwater transport since 1970. Nature (2022), 602, 617–622. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04370-w
17) Holmes, R. M., Sohail, T., Zika, J. D. Adiabatic and diabatic signatures of ocean temperature variability. Journal of Climate (2022), 35(5), 1459-1477, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0695.1
18) Sohail, T., Irving, D. B., Zika, J. D., Holmes, R. M., Church, J. A. Fifty year trends in global ocean heat content traced to surface heat fluxes in the sub‐polar ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. (2021), 48, e2020GL091439. doi:10.1029/2020GL091439.
19) Ivey, G. N., Bluteau, C. E., Gayen, B., Jones, N. L., Sohail, T. The roles of shear and convection in driving mixing in the ocean. Geophysical Research Letters (2021), 48, e2020GL089455, doi:10.1029/2020GL089455
20) Sohail, T., Gayen, B. and Hogg, A. McC. The dynamics of mixed layer deepening during open ocean convection. Journal of Physical Oceanography (2020), 50(6), 1625-1641, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0264.1
21) Sohail, T., Vreugdenhil, C. A., Gayen, B. and Hogg, A. McC. The impact of turbulence and convection on transport in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2019), 124, 4208–4221, doi:10.1029/2018JC014883
22) Sohail, T., Gayen, B. and Hogg, A. McC. Convection drives mixing in the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters (2018), 45, doi:10.1029/2018GL077711
THESIS
1) Sohail, T. Turbulence and Convection in Sounthern Ocean Circulation. PhD Thesis (2020), The Australian National University, Full Text