GOF

Physical Oceanography and Climate Change

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What we do

The GOF covers a wide spectrum of research within the area of geophysical fluid dynamics. The scope of their work spans atmospheric mesoscale meteorology, air-sea interactions, large-scale to mesoscale ocean dynamics and regional oceanography (observational and modeling) being the focus on Physical Oceanography and Climate Change and its impacts.

This group has always believed that quality research must be done in collaboration to acquire new methodologies and diverse points of view. Hence, our researchers not only collaborate nationally and internationally with other groups but try to forge a network for student exchanges. Since 2018 the group is part of a collaborative effort between the Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) called Unidad Asociada Océano y Clima, designed to increase the already existing collaboration between two national entities. The Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) of the CSIC in Barcelona is the collaborative institution of this Unidad Asociada. We have just finished a common project funded by the Plan Nacional called the South Atlantic Gateway in the global conveyor belt (SAGA) that was carried out from 1999 to 2002.

Currently, the Plan Nacional has funded another project dealing with the South Atlantic COnections (SACO) for the period 2023-2026. In addition, the group also has tight links with researchers from the Canary Oceanographic Center (COC) of the CSIC and since 1993 the groups have been working together in monitoring the Canary Current and giving students a first hands-on field experience.

Internationally, the group maintains an active collaboration since 1999 with researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, USA, including several student exchanges, a postdoctoral investigator contract, a sabbatical research year and more than 10 publications in common. In 2010, the group also started to collaborate with the National Oceanographic Center (NOC), Southampton, U.K. This collaboration led to a collaboration with researchers now in the University of Bergen and in the Maynooth University of Ireland. This has led to several student exchanges and to more than 5 publications in common. Later, in 2011, after a sabbatical research year at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), California, USA, a collaboration with researchers of the institution has led him to publications and more student exchanges. Further collaborations exist with the Universities of Iceland and La Sorbonne and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) of Miami. As a result of this collaborative network, the Ph.D. students of the group have worked after defending, in the COC of the CSIC, at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland, at WHOI, at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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