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Overview

Armin Köhl is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. The scientist's work also intersects with Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Computational Mechanics.

Köhl's research topics encompass various aspects of oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, and marine and coastal ecosystems. Additional areas of study include geophysics and gravity measurements, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Frequent coauthors include Detlef Stammer, Johann Jungclaus, Chuanyu Liu, Fan Wang, and Matthew R. Mazloff, indicating collaboration across multiple research groups and disciplines.

Their publication record includes papers in several notable journals, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Climate and Climate Dynamics. Other common venues for their work include the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Köhl include:

  • Evaluating the GECCO3 1948-2018 ocean synthesis - a configuration for initializing the MPI-ESM climate model, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Towards an End-to-End Analysis and Prediction System for Weather, Climate, and Marine Applications in the Red Sea, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • What causes the spread of model projections of ocean dynamic sea-level change in response to greenhouse gas forcing?, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • How well do we know ocean salinity and its changes?, 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • Four Types of Baroclinic Instability Waves in the Global Oceans and the Implications for the Vertical Structure of Mesoscale Eddies, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Best Publications

  • Projecting twenty-first century regional sea-level changes

    A.B.A. Slangen;A.B.A. Slangen;Mark Carson;C.A. Katsman;R.S.W. van de Wal

  • Initializing Decadal Climate Predictions with the GECCO Oceanic Synthesis: Effects on the North Atlantic

    Holger Pohlmann;Johann H. Jungclaus;Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

  • The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

    M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

  • Ocean mixed layer depth: A subsurface proxy of ocean‐atmosphere variability

    K Lorbacher;K Lorbacher;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget;P P Niiler;A Kohl

  • Measuring Global Ocean Heat Content to Estimate the Earth Energy Imbalance

    Benoit Meyssignac;Tim Boyer;Zhongxiang Zhao;Maria Z. Hakuba;Maria Z. Hakuba

  • Estimating air‐sea fluxes of heat, freshwater, and momentum through global ocean data assimilation

    D. Stammer;K. Ueyoshi;A. Köhl;W. G. Large

  • Coastal sea level changes: Observed and projected during the 20th and 21st century.

    M. Carson;Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer;A.B.A. Slangen

  • Evaluation of the GECCO2 ocean synthesis: transports of volume, heat and freshwater in the Atlantic

    Armin Köhl

  • Variability of the Meridional Overturning in the North Atlantic from the 50-Year GECCO State Estimation

    Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

  • NASA Supercomputer Improves Prospects for Ocean Climate Research

    D. Menemenlis;C. Hill;A. Adcrocft;J.-M. Campin

  • Interannual to Decadal Changes in the ECCO Global Synthesis

    A. Köhl;D. Stammer;B. Cornuelle

  • Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea: 1. Model validation and summer circulation

    Fengchao Yao;Ibrahim Hoteit;Larry J. Pratt;Amy S. Bower

  • Decadal Sea Level Changes in the 50-Year GECCO Ocean Synthesis

    Armin Köhl;Detlef Stammer

  • Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea: 2. Winter circulation

    Fengchao Yao;Ibrahim Hoteit;Lawrence J. Pratt;Amy S. Bower

  • Generation and Stability of a Quasi-Permanent Vortex in the Lofoten Basin

    Armin Köhl

  • Ocean Data Assimilation in Support of Climate Applications: Status and Perspectives

    D. Stammer;M. Balmaseda;P. Heimbach;A. Köhl

  • Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses

    M. D. Palmer;C. D. Roberts;M. Balmaseda;Y. S. Chang

  • MiKlip - a National Research Project on Decadal Climate Prediction

    Jochem Marotzke;Wolfgang A. Müller;Freja S. E. Vamborg;Paul Becker

  • Comparison of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products

    A. R. Karspeck;Detlef Stammer;Armin Köhl;G. Danabasoglu

  • An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses

    Maria Valdivieso;Keith Haines;Magdalena Balmaseda;You-Soon Chang;You-Soon Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Stammer
Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Keith Haines
Keith Haines University of Reading
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Patrick Heimbach
Patrick Heimbach The University of Texas at Austin
Ibrahim Hoteit
Ibrahim Hoteit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ichiro Fukumori
Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Bruce D. Cornuelle
Bruce D. Cornuelle University of California, San Diego
Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin Met Office

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