SimOcean
Simulating and forecasting southern Africa's ocean
Team
Bjorn Backeberg
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- Position:
- Post-doctoral fellow at the Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
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- Role:
- Develop HYCOM for mesoscale modelling of the Agulhas Current. Implementing an ocean modelling platform for southern Africa in support of research and operational activities.
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- Affiliations:
- University of Cape Town
- Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
- Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography
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- Research Interests:
- Mesoscale ocean modelling of the Agulhas Current
- Marine satellite remote sensing
- Coastal oceanography
- Ocean-atmosphere dynamics
- Operational Oceanography
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Jennifer Veitch
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- Position:
- UCT/ACCESS Post-doctoral fellow
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- Role:
- Modelling the dynamics of the Benguela Current System. Implementing an ocean modelling platform for southern Africa in support of research and operational activities.
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- Affiliations:
- University of Cape Town
- Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
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- Research Interests:
- Modelling the Benguela Current system
- Agulhas Current impact on the Benguela upwelling system
- Operational Oceanography
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Roy van Ballegooyen |
- Position:
- Group leader Coastal Systems, CSIR
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- Research Interests:
- Regional and localized wave forecast system.
- Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales
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Gerhardus Diedricks |
- Position:
- Environmental and biomonitoring services, CSIR
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- Research Interests:
- Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales.
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Marius Rossouw |
- Position:
- CSIR
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- Research Interests:
- Regional and localized wave forecast system.
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Alan Meyer
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- Position:
- CSIR
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- Research Interests:
- Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales.
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Frank Shillington |
- Position:
- Head of Department Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
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- Research Interests:
- Coastal oceanography
- Satellite remote sensing, wind waves
- Numerical ocean modelling of shelf-circulation
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Chris Reason |
- Position:
- Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
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- Research Interests:
- Southern hemisphere climate variability
- South African rainfall variability
- Mesoscale and coastal meteorology
- Severe weather
- Ocean-atmosphere interactions
- Indian and South Atlantic Oceans
- Southern Ocean
- Ocean and atmospheric modelling
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George Philander |
- Position:
- Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
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- Research Interests:
- Ocean-atmosphere interactions
- Paleoclimate
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