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Overview

Claus W. Böning is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Böning has contributed to a variety of scientific publications, several of which have been cited extensively. Key recent papers include:

  • "Evaluation of global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)" (2020), published in Geoscientific Model Development
  • "The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in High-Resolution Models" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Changing Spatial Patterns of Deep Convection in the Subpolar North Atlantic" (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Regional imprints of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the eddy-rich ocean model VIKING20X" (2021), published in Ocean Science
  • "Depth Structure of Ningaloo Niño/Niña Events and Associated Drivers" (2020), published in Journal of Climate

Böning's work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Ocean Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Throughout their career, Böning has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Arne Biastoch
  • Patrick Wagner
  • Markus Scheinert
  • Klaus Getzlaff
  • Caroline C. Ummenhofer

Their research contributes data and models that advance the understanding of ocean and atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, and ocean circulation patterns, with implications for marine ecosystems and global climate systems.

Best Publications

  • Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution

    Bernard Barnier;Gurvan Madec;Thierry Penduff;Jean-Marc Molines

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;Shogo Urakawa;Hideyuki Nakano;R. Justin Small

  • The response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change

    Claus W. Böning;Astrid Dispert;Martin Visbeck;S. R. Rintoul

  • Developments in ocean climate modelling

    Stephen M. Griffies;Claus Böning;Frank O. Bryan;Eric P. Chassignet

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;David Bailey;Erik Behrens

  • Increase in Agulhas leakage due to poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere westerlies

    Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Franziska U. Schwarzkopf;J. R. E. Lutjeharms

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • Rising Arctic Ocean temperatures cause gas hydrate destabilization and ocean acidification

    Arne Biastoch;Tina Treude;Lars H. Rüpke;Ulf Riebesell

  • Agulhas leakage dynamics affects decadal variability in Atlantic overturning circulation

    Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;J. R. E. Lutjeharms

  • Emerging impact of Greenland meltwater on deepwater formation in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Claus W. Böning;Erik Behrens;Erik Behrens;Arne Biastoch;Klaus Getzlaff

  • Interior pathways of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    Amy S. Bower;M. Susan Lozier;Stefan F. Gary;Claus W. Böning

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Decadal variability of subpolar gyre transport and its reverberation in the North Atlantic overturning

    Claus W. Böning;Markus Scheinert;Joachim Dengg;Arne Biastoch

  • Circulation characteristics in three eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic

    Jürgen Willebrand;Bernard Barnier;Claus Böning;Christian Dieterich

  • Is the thermohaline circulation changing

    Mojib Latif;Claus W. Böning;Jürgen Willebrand;Arne Biastoch

  • Causes of Interannual–Decadal Variability in the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Midlatitude North Atlantic Ocean

    Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Julia Getzlaff;Jean-Marc Molines

  • Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;L. Shogo Urakawa;Stephen M. Griffies;Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu

  • Deep water formation, the subpolar gyre, and the meridional overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

    Monika Rhein;Dagmar Kieke;Sabine Hüttl-Kabus;Achim Roessler

  • Eddy dynamics in a primitive equation model: Sensitivity to horizontal resolution and friction

    Claus W. Böning;Reinhard G. Budich

  • Sources of Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Labrador Sea

    Carsten Eden;Claus W. Böning

  • Eddy-permitting ocean circulation hindcasts of past decades

    Bernard Barnier;Laurent Brodeau;Julien Le Sommer;Jean-Marc Molines

  • Response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change

    Claus W. Böning;A. Dispert;Martin Visbeck;S. R. Rintoul

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne Biastoch
Arne Biastoch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Anne-Marie Treguier
Anne-Marie Treguier French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Monika Rhein
Monika Rhein University of Bremen
Hiroyuki Tsujino
Hiroyuki Tsujino Japan Meteorological Agency
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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