© Hanna Lenz / www.hannalenz.com
OFFICE
Room No.: 3.308, Building 5 (ENB)
Phone: +49 431 600 4000
E-mail: abiastoch(at)geomar.de
ADDRESS
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Wischhofstr. 1 - 3
24148 Kiel
Germany
LINKS
ORCID – Web of Science
Objective
Physical oceanographer with a strong interest in using numerical models and data science tools to research the fine-scale structure and large-scale ocean circulation, and its impact on global climate and climate change. I collaborate on a number of interdisciplinary questions, from oceanic biogeochemistry to ecosystem connectivity of marine organisms.
Studying the impacts of fine-scale whirls on climate and ecosystems. Coordinating PI of the ERC Synergy Project WHIRLS to observe and simulate fine-scale ocean processes, quantify their role and impact on global ocean circulation, air-sea exchange of heat and carbon, and the marine biome, and to develop representation of fine-scale processes in Earth system models to improve climate prediction.
![[Translate to English:] Nature Cover 2009](/fileadmin/personal/fb1/od/abiastoch/Nature_Cover_2009.jpg)
Investigating Indian-Atlantic basin interaction through the Agulhas Current system (DFG, EU, and BMBF projects); Co- chair of the SCOR Working Group No. 136 "Climatic importance of the Greater Agulhas System" (2010-2012).
AMOC simulation (link to animation)
Modelling the Atlantic Ocean circulation variability (EU and BMBF projects); joint work in the European modeling initiative DRAKKAR, especially of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and is connection to the submesoscale and mesoscale variability.
Coordinating information & data science as speaker of the Helmholtz School for Marine Data Science MarDATA (2019-2024).
![[Translate to English:] Dispersal](/fileadmin/personal/fb1/od/abiastoch/VIKIN20-K301-floats-Eels.ps.png)
Exploring the dispersal and Lagrangian connectivity of drifting organisms (e.g., glass eels, juvenile turtles, foraminifera, larvae) and particles (debris of MH 380) (interdisciplinary collaboration with different research divisions at GEOMAR and with European partners).
Five most important publications
- Biastoch, A., C. W. Böning, F. U. Schwarzkopf, and J. R. E. Lutjeharms, 2009: Increase in Agulhas leakage due to poleward shift in the southern hemisphere westerlies, Nature, 462, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08519
- Schubert, R., J. Gula, and A. Biastoch, 2021: Submesoscale Impacts on Agulhas Leakage and Agulhas Cyclone Formation, Nat. Commun. Earth Environ., 2, 197, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00271-y.
- Böning, C. W., E. Behrens, A. Biastoch, K. Getzlaff, and J. L. Bamber, 2016: Emerging impact of Greenland meltwater on deepwater formation in the North Atlantic Ocean, Nat. Geosci., 9, 523–527, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2740
- Biastoch, A., F. U. Schwarzkopf, K. Getzlaff, S. Rühs, T. Martin, M. Scheinert, T. Schulzki, P. Handmann, R. Hummels, and C. W. Böning, 2021: Regional Imprints of Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Eddy-rich Ocean Model VIKING20X, Ocean. Sci., 17, 1177–1211, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1177-2021
- Rühs, S., C. Schmidt, F. U. Schwarzkopf, T. G. Schulzki, R. Schubert, D. Le Bars, and A. Biastoch, 2022: Robust estimates for the Decadal Evolution of Agulhas Leakage from the 1960s to the 2010s, Nature Commun. Earth. Environ. 3, 318, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00643-y
More details on my Scientific Resume. A complete updated list of my publications can be accessed at OceanRep.
