dr. Marieke Femke de Jong

I study the circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean in order to understand the physics that drive the circulation and to predict how it will change in response to climate change. This is important because northward heat transport by ocean currents has a strong impact on climate on land. For my research I measure the ocean currents and the properties of the water column with moored insstruments as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP). Using additional data from remote sensing (satellites), floats, Argo and ocean and atmospheric models, we try to understand the changes in the circulation in context of changes in the interaction with the atmosphere, interaction with fresh meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet and internal ocean dynamics.