My research interests
Shelf seas dynamics
- Effect of regional proccesses (air-sea fluxes, tides, river outflow) on water mass transformation and flow patterns.
- Interaction between seasonal and tidal variability.
- Imprint of large scale ocean and climate patterns on shelf seas.
Role of the ocean to the climate response to carbon emissions
- Effect of different mechanisms: ocean statification, circulation and carbonate chemistry.
- Variability and uncertainty amongst Earth system models.
Feedback mechanisms operating in the climate system and their effect in regulating climate change
- Carbon cycle feedbacks, such as from changes in carbonate chemistry (i.e., acidification) and the ocean circulation.
- Climate feedbacks, such as from changes in air-sea exchange and clouds.
Climate change impact in shelf seas
- Effect of fine-scale shelf processes vs large-scale open ocean patterns in different shelf seas.
- Climate-change induced variability outside the natural range and occurence of extreme events.
- Emergence of environmental stressors for marine ecosystems: warming, acidification, hypoxia, nutrients availability.
Numerical modelling: shelf seas, opean ocean and climate
- Conceptual and idealised models.
- Realistic numerical models.
Statistical methods for analysis and reconstruction of observations, and data assimilation
- Spectal analysis of modes of variability.
- Empirical Orthogonal Function analysis.
- State-space models.
- Ensemble Kalman filter and Ensemble Optimal Interpolation.