John Prytherch
Senior research engineer at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Meteorology
- E-mail:
- john.prytherch@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-1209-289X
Research
- Air-sea interaction
- Upper-ocean physics
- Arctic meteorology
The current focus of my research is the exchange of trace gases (e.g. carbon dioxide, methane) between the ocean and the atmosphere at high latitude. In particular, the role of sea ice.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Biogeosciences, p. 4779-4796, 2025
- DOI for Methane ebullition as the dominant pathway for carbon sea-air exchange in coastal, shallow water habitats of the Baltic Sea
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Part of Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, p. 8455-8474, 2025
- DOI for Particle flux–gradient relationships in the high Arctic: emission and deposition patterns across three surface types
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Central Arctic Ocean surface–atmosphere exchange of CO2 and CH4 constrained by direct measurements
Part of Biogeosciences, p. 671-688, 2024
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Sea Ice Modulates Air–Sea Methane Flux in the Southern Ocean
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, 2024
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Turbulent Heat Fluxes over Arctic Sea Ice: Measurements and Evaluation of Recent Parameterizations
Part of Boundary-layer Meteorology, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Biogeosciences, p. 4779-4796, 2025
- DOI for Methane ebullition as the dominant pathway for carbon sea-air exchange in coastal, shallow water habitats of the Baltic Sea
- Download full text (pdf) of Methane ebullition as the dominant pathway for carbon sea-air exchange in coastal, shallow water habitats of the Baltic Sea
Part of Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, p. 8455-8474, 2025
- DOI for Particle flux–gradient relationships in the high Arctic: emission and deposition patterns across three surface types
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Central Arctic Ocean surface–atmosphere exchange of CO2 and CH4 constrained by direct measurements
Part of Biogeosciences, p. 671-688, 2024
- DOI for Central Arctic Ocean surface–atmosphere exchange of CO2 and CH4 constrained by direct measurements
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Sea Ice Modulates Air–Sea Methane Flux in the Southern Ocean
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, 2024
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Turbulent Heat Fluxes over Arctic Sea Ice: Measurements and Evaluation of Recent Parameterizations
Part of Boundary-layer Meteorology, 2024
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Reducing Parametrization Errors for Polar Surface Turbulent Fluxes Using Machine Learning
Part of Boundary-layer Meteorology, 2024
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