Modelling oceanic oxygen change from the Holocene into the Anthropocene (A01)

• Subject Area: Oceanography
• Term: from 2008 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 27542298

The aim of the subproject is to carry out transient simulations with a global state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model in combination with a suite of biogeochemical models to investigate the spatio-temporal variability of oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) during the Holocene (last 10000 years), and over the next few centuries. Focussing on the eastern tropical South Pacific, together with data from paleo reconstructions we shall develop a coherent picture of the internal and external mechanisms driving OMZ variability.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 754: Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Co-Applicant Institution: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Mojib Latif; Professorin Dr. Birgit Schneider