Associate Professor Mark Holzer

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Oceanography, atmospheric science, climate; Ocean biogeochemical cycles, ventilation, transport, tracers, inverse modelling; Long-range transport, stratosphere-troposphere exchange, trace gases

For more information see Mark Holzer's personal webpage.

Phone

+61 2 9385 7109

E-mail

mholzer@unsw.edu.au

Location

School of Mathematics and Statistics University of New South Wales SYDNEY NSW 2052 The Red Centre Room 4107

Journal articles | 2023

Gray WR; de Lavergne C; Jnglin Wills RC; Menviel L; Spence P; Holzer M; Kageyama M; Michel E, 2023, 'Poleward Shift in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Synchronous With the Deglacial Rise in CO2', Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004666

Journal articles | 2023

Pasquier B; Holzer M; Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ; Bindoff NL; Primeau FW, 2023, 'Optimal parameters for the ocean's nutrient, carbon, and oxygen cycles compensate for circulation biases but replumb the biological pump', Biogeosciences, 20, pp. 2985 - 3009, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-2985-2023

Journal articles | 2023

Sulpis O; Trossman DS; Holzer M; Jeansson E; Lauvset SK; Middelburg JJ, 2023, 'Respiration Patterns in the Dark Ocean', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007747

Journal articles | 2022

Holzer M; DeVries T, 2022, 'Source-Labeled Anthropogenic Carbon Reveals a Large Shift of Preindustrial Carbon From the Ocean to the Atmosphere', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007405

Journal articles | 2022

Holzer M, 2022, 'The Fate of Oxygen in the Ocean and Its Sensitivity to Local Changes in Biological Production', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018802

Journal articles | 2022

John SG; Kelly RL; Bian X; Fu F; Smith MI; Lanning NT; Liang H; Pasquier B; Seelen EA; Holzer M; Wasylenki L; Conway TM; Fitzsimmons JN; Hutchins DA; Yang SC, 2022, 'The biogeochemical balance of oceanic nickel cycling', Nature Geoscience, 15, pp. 906 - 912, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01045-7

Journal articles | 2022

Kwon EY; Holzer M; Timmermann A; Primeau F, 2022, 'Estimating Three-Dimensional Carbon-To-Phosphorus Stoichiometry of Exported Marine Organic Matter', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007154

Journal articles | 2021

Holzer M; DeVries T; de Lavergne C, 2021, 'Diffusion controls the ventilation of a Pacific Shadow Zone above abyssal overturning', Nature Communications, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x

Journal articles | 2021

Holzer M; Kwon EY; Pasquier B, 2021, 'A New Metric of the Biological Carbon Pump: Number of Pump Passages and Its Control on Atmospheric pCO2', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006863

Journal articles | 2020

Holzer M; Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ, 2020, 'Climate-Driven Changes in the Ocean's Ventilation Pathways and Time Scales Diagnosed From Transport Matrices', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016414

Journal articles | 2020

John SG; Liang H; Weber T; DeVries T; Primeau F; Moore K; Holzer M; Mahowald N; Gardner W; Mishonov A; Richardson MJ; Faugere Y; Taburet G, 2020, 'AWESOME OCIM: A simple, flexible, and powerful tool for modeling elemental cycling in the oceans', Chemical Geology, 533, pp. 119403 - 119403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119403

Journal articles | 2019

Chamberlain MA; Matear RJ; Holzer M; Bi D; Marsland SJ, 2019, 'Transport matrices from standard ocean-model output and quantifying circulation response to climate change', Ocean Modelling, 135, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.01.005

Journal articles | 2019

DeVries T; Holzer M, 2019, 'Radiocarbon and Helium Isotope Constraints on Deep Ocean Ventilation and Mantle-3He Sources', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018jc014716

Journal articles | 2019

Holzer M; DeVries T; Smethie WJ, 2019, 'The ocean's global 39Ar distribution estimated with an ocean circulation inverse model', Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, pp. 7491 - 7499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082663

Journal articles | 2019

Holzer M; Pasquier B; DeVries T; Brzezinski M, 2019, 'Diatom Physiology Controls Silicic Acid Leakage in Response to Iron Fertilization', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33, pp. 1631 - 1653, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019GB006460

Journal articles | 2018

Holzer M; Smethie WM; Ting YH, 2018, 'Ventilation of the Subtropical North Atlantic: Locations and Times of Last Ventilation Estimated Using Tracer Constraints From GEOTRACES Section GA03', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, pp. 2332 - 2352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013698

Journal articles | 2018

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2018, 'Iron fertilization efficiency and the number of past and future regenerations of iron in the ocean', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-2018-379

Journal articles | 2018

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2018, 'The number of past and future regenerations of iron in the ocean and its intrinsic fertilization efficiency', Biogeosciences, 15, pp. 7177 - 7203, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7177-2018

Journal articles | 2018

Yang H; Waugh DW; Holzer M, 2018, 'Decoupling the Effects of Transport and Chemical Loss on Tropospheric Composition: A Model Study of Path-Dependent Lifetimes', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, pp. 2320 - 2335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027871

Journal articles | 2017

DeVries T; Holzer M; Primeau F, 2017, 'Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning', Nature, 542, pp. 215 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature21068

Journal articles | 2017

Holzer M; DeVries T; Bianchi D; Newton R; Schlosser P; Winckler G, 2017, 'Objective estimates of mantle ³He in the ocean and implications for constraining the deep ocean circulation', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, pp. 305 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.054

Journal articles | 2017

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2017, 'Inverse-model estimates of the ocean's coupled phosphorus, silicon, and iron cycles', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-122

Journal articles | 2017

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2017, 'Inverse-model estimates of the ocean’s coupled phosphorus, silicon, and iron cycles', Biogeosciences, 14, pp. 4125 - 4159, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-4125-2017

Journal articles | 2017

Ting YH; Holzer M, 2017, 'Decadal changes in Southern Ocean ventilation inferred from deconvolutions of repeat hydrographies', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 5655 - 5664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073788

Journal articles | 2016

Frants M; Holzer M; DeVries T; Matear R, 2016, 'Constraints on the global marine iron cycle from a simple inverse model', Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121, pp. 28 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015JG003111

Journal articles | 2016

Holzer M; Frants M; Pasquier B, 2016, 'The age of iron and iron source attribution in the ocean', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, pp. 1454 - 1474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005418

Journal articles | 2016

Pasquier B; Holzer M, 2016, 'The plumbing of the global biological pump: Efficiency control through leaks, pathways, and time scales', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121, pp. 6367 - 6388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JC011821

Journal articles | 2015

Holzer M; Brzezinski MA, 2015, 'Controls on the silicon isotope distribution in the ocean: New diagnostics from a data-constrained model', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, pp. 267 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GB004967

Journal articles | 2015

Holzer M; Waugh DW, 2015, 'Interhemispheric transit time distributions and path-dependent lifetimes constrained by measurements of SF6, CFCs, and CFC replacements', Geophysical Research Letters, 42, pp. 4581 - 4589, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064172

Journal articles | 2015

Orbe C; Newman PA; Waugh DW; Holzer M; Oman LD; Li F; Polvani LM, 2015, 'Air-mass origin in the arctic. Part II: Response to increases in greenhouse gases', Journal of Climate, 28, pp. 9105 - 9120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0296.1

Journal articles | 2015

Orbe C; Newman PA; Waugh DW; Holzer M; Oman LD; Li F; Polvani LM, 2015, 'Airmass origin in the Arctic. Part I: Seasonality', Journal of Climate, 28, pp. 4997 - 5014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00720.1

Journal articles | 2015

Tisdell CC; Holzer M, 2015, 'Analysis of the boundary value problem associated with the nonrelativistic Thomas-Fermi equation for heavy atoms in intense magnetic fields', Differential Equations and Applications, 7, pp. 27 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.7153/dea-07-03

Journal articles | 2014

Holzer M; Primeau FW; DeVries T; Matear R, 2014, 'The Southern Ocean silicon trap: Data-constrained estimates of regenerated silicic acid, trapping efficiencies, and global transport paths', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119, pp. 313 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009356

Journal articles | 2014

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM; Waugh DW; Li F; Oman LD; Newman PA, 2014, 'Seasonal ventilation of the stratosphere: Robust diagnostics from one-way flux distributions', Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, pp. 293 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020213

Journal articles | 2013

Holzer M; Polvani LM, 2013, 'Lifetime dependent flux into the lowermost stratosphere for idealized trace gases of surface origin', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 9367 - 9375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50657

Journal articles | 2013

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2013, 'Global teleconnections in the oceanic phosphorus cycle: Patterns, paths, and timescales', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 1775 - 1796, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20072

Journal articles | 2013

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM; Waugh DW, 2013, 'Air-mass origin as a diagnostic of tropospheric transport', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118, pp. 1459 - 1470, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50133

Journal articles | 2013

Primeau FW; Holzer M; DeVries T, 2013, 'Southern Ocean nutrient trapping and the efficiency of the biological pump', Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, pp. 2547 - 2564, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20181

Journal articles | 2013

Waugh DW; Primeau FW; DeVries T; Holzer M, 2013, 'Recent changes in the ventilation of the southern oceans', Science, 339, pp. 568 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1225411

Journal articles | 2012

Holzer M; Orbe C; Primeau FW, 2012, 'Stratospheric mean residence time and mean age on the tropopause: Connections and implications for observational constraints', Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117, pp. D12314 (8pp), http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017547

Journal articles | 2012

Khatiwala S; Primeau FW; Holzer M, 2012, 'Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 325-326, pp. 116 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.038

Journal articles | 2012

Orbe C; Holzer M; Polvani LM, 2012, 'Flux distributions as robust diagnostics of stratosphere-toposphere exchange', Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, pp. Article number: D01302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016455

Journal articles | 2010

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2010, 'Improved constraints on transit time distribtions from argon 39: A maximum entropy approach', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. c12021(19pp), http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JC006410

Journal articles | 2010

Holzer M; Primeau FWP; Smethie JWM; Khatiwala S, 2010, 'Where and how long ago was water in the western North Atlantic ventilated? Maximum entropy inversions of bottle data from WOCE line A20', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JC005750

Journal articles | 2009

Holzer M, 2009, 'The path density of interhemispheric surface-to-surface transport. Part I: Development of the diagnostic and illustration with an analytic model', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp. 2159 - 2171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JAS2894.1

Journal articles | 2009

Holzer M, 2009, 'The path density of interhemispheric surface-to-surface transport. Part II: Transport through the troposphere and stratosphere diagnosed from NCEP data', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, pp. 2172 - 2189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JAS2895.1

Journal articles | 2008

Haine TWN; Zhang H; Waugh D; Holzer M, 2008, 'On transit-time distributions in unsteady circulation models', Ocean Modelling, 21, pp. 35 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2007.11.004

Journal articles | 2008

Holzer M; Hall TM, 2008, 'Tropospheric transport climate partitioned by surface origin and transit time', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007JD009115

Journal articles | 2008

Holzer M; Primeau F, 2008, 'The path-density distribution of oceanic surface-to-surface transport', Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JC003976

Journal articles | 2007

Hall T; Haine TWN; Holzer M; Lebel DA; Terenzi F; Waugh D, 2007, 'Ventilation rates estimated from tracers in the presence of mixing', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, pp. 2599 - 2611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2006JPO3471.1

Journal articles | 2007

Holzer M; Hall T, 2007, 'Low-level transpacific transport', Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007828

Journal articles | 2006

Holzer M; Primeau FW, 2006, 'The Diffusive Ocean Conveyor', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026232

Journal articles | 2006

Primeau FW; Holzer M, 2006, 'The Ocean's Memory of the Atmosphere: Residence-Time and Ventilation-Rate Distributions of Water Masses', Journal of Physical Oceanography, 7, pp. 1439 - 1456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO2919.1

Journal articles | 2005

Holzer M; Hall T; Stull RB, 2005, 'Seasonality and weather-driven variability of transpacific transport', Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005JD006261

Journal articles | 2003

Hall TM; Holzer M, 2003, 'Advective-diffusive mass flux and implications for stratosphere-troposphere exchange', Geophysical Research Letters, 30, pp. 26 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016419

Journal articles | 2003

Holzer M; McKendry IG; Jaffe DA, 2003, 'Springtime trans-Pacific atmospheric transport from east Asia: A transit-time probability density function approach', Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003JD003558

Journal articles | 2001

Holzer M; Boer GJ, 2001, 'Simulated changes in atmospheric transport climate', Journal of Climate, 14, pp. 4398 - 4420, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014%3C4398:SCIATC%3E2.0.CO;2

Journal articles | 2000

Holzer M; Hall TM, 2000, 'Transit-time and tracer-age distributions in geophysical flows', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, pp. 3539 - 3558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057

Journal articles | 1999

Denning AS; Holzer M; Gurney KR; Heimann M; Law RM; Rayner PJ; Fung IY; Fan S-M; Taguchi S; Friedlingstein P; Balkanski Y; Taylor J; Maiss M; Levin I, 1999, 'Three-dimensional transport and concentration of SF<sub>6</sub> A model intercomparison study (TransCom 2)', Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 51, pp. 266 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v51i2.16286

Journal articles | 1999

Denning AS; Holzer M; Gurney KR; Heimann M; Law RM; Rayner PJ; Fung IY; Friedlingstein P; Fan S-M; Taguchi S; Balkanski Y; Taylor J; Maiss M; Levin I, 1999, 'Three-dimensional transport and concentration of SF6 a model intercomparison study (TransCom 2)', Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 51, pp. 266 - 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0889.1999.00012.x

Journal articles | 1999

Holzer M, 1999, 'Analysis of passive tracer transport as modeled by an atmospheric general circulation model', Journal of Climate, 12, pp. 1659 - 1684, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012

Journal articles | 1996

Holzer M, 1996, 'Asymmetric geopotential height fluctuations from symmetric winds', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, pp. 1361 - 1379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<1361:AGHFFS>2.0.CO;2

Journal articles | 1996

Holzer M, 1996, 'Optimal spectral topography and its effect on model climate', Journal of Climate, 9, pp. 2443 - 2463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2443:OSTAIE>2.0.CO;2

Journal articles | 1995

Holzer M; Siggia E, 1995, 'Erratum: "Turbulent mixing of a passive scalar" (Physics of Fluids (1994) 6 (1820))', Physics of Fluids, 7, pp. 1519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.868783

Journal articles | 1994

Holzer M; Siggia ED, 1994, 'Turbulent mixing of a passive scalar', Physics of Fluids, 6, pp. 1820 - 1837, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.868243

Journal articles | 1993

Holzer M; Pumir A, 1993, 'Simple models of non-Gaussian statistics for a turbulently advected passive scalar', Physical Review E, 47, pp. 202 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.47.202

Journal articles | 1993

Holzer M; Siggia E, 1993, 'Skewed, exponential pressure distributions from Gaussian velocities', Physics of Fluids A, 5, pp. 2525 - 2532, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.858765

Journal articles | 1992

Shore JD; Holzer M; Sethna JP, 1992, 'Logarithmically slow domain growth in nonrandomly frustrated systems: Ising models with competing interactions', Physical Review B, 46, pp. 11376 - 11404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.46.11376

Journal articles | 1991

Holzer M, 1991, 'Multifractal wave functions on a class of one-dimensional quasicrystals: Exact f(alpha) curves and the limit of dilute quasiperiodic impurities', Physical Review B, 44, pp. 2085 - 2091, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.44.2085

Journal articles | 1990

Holzer M, 1990, 'Equilibrium crystal shapes and correlation lengths: A general exact result in two dimensions', Physical Review Letters, 64, pp. 653 - 656, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.653

Journal articles | 1990

Holzer M, 1990, 'Exact equilibrium crystal shapes in two dimensions for free-fermion models', Physical Review B, 42, pp. 10570 - 10582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.42.10570

Journal articles | 1989

Holzer M; Wortis M, 1989, 'Low-temperature expansions for the step free energy and facet shape of the simple-cubic Ising model', Physical Review B, 40, pp. 11044 - 11058, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.40.11044

Journal articles | 1988

Holzer M, 1988, 'Nonlinear dynamics of localization in a class of one-dimensional quasicrystals', Physical Review B, 38, pp. 5756 - 5759, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.5756

Journal articles | 1988

Holzer M, 1988, 'Three classes of one-dimensional, two-tile Penrose tilings and the Fibonacci Kronig-Penney model as a generic case', Physical Review B, 38, pp. 1709 - 1720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.1709
Preprints | 2023

Sulpis O; Trossman D; Holzer M; Jeansson E; Lauvset SK; Middelburg JJ, 2023, Respiration patterns in the dark ocean, , http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.167768128.81025673/v1

Preprints | 2023

2023, Optimal parameters for the ocean's nutrient, carbon, and oxygen cycles compensate for circulation biases but replumb the biological pump, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-363

Conference Papers | 2022

John S; Kelly R; Bian X; Yang S-C; Fu F; Smith M; Lanning N; Liang H; Pasquier B; Seelen E; Holzer M; Conway T; Fitzsimmons J; Hutchins D, 2022, 'The biogeochemical balance that controls oceanic nickel cycling in the modern and past oceans', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.12708

Preprints | 2022

John SG; Pasquier B; Holzer M; Silva SJ, 2022, Biogeochemical fluxes of nickel in the global oceans inferred from a diagnostic model, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10512830.1

Conference Papers | 2022

Sulpis O; Trossman D; Jeansson E; Holzer M; Lauvset S; Middelburg J, 2022, 'Respiration signals from the dark ocean', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.11491

Conference Papers | 2021

Gray W; deLavergne C; Wills R; Menviel L; Spence P; Holzer M; Kageyama M; Michel E, 2021, 'Poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds synchronous with the deglacial rise in CO₂', in Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2021, 04 July 2021 - 09 July 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.7185/gold2021.5204

Conference Papers | 1991

Shore JD; Holzer M; Sethna JP; Elser V, 1991, 'Logarithimically slow coarsening in nonrandomly frustrated models', in AIP Conf. Proc., American Institute of Physics, Fukuoka (Japan), presented at Slow dynamics in condensed matter, Fukuoka (Japan), 04 November 1991 - 08 November 1991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.42383

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