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Marcus Dengler is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Pollution.

The scientist's work covers several notable topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, climate variability and models, marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean waves and remote sensing, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, marine biology and ecology research, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Marcus Dengler has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Organic Matter Supply and Utilization in Oxygen Minimum Zones, 2021, Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean: Data Collection and Legacy, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Atlantic Equatorial Undercurrent intensification counteracts warming-induced deoxygenation, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Internal Tides in the Angolan Upwelling Region, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Physical processes and biological productivity in the upwelling regions of the tropical Atlantic, 2023, Ocean science

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ocean science, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Nature Geoscience.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work. Marcus Dengler's frequent coauthors include:

  • Peter Brandt
  • Rainer Kiko
  • Eric P. Achterberg
  • Franz Philip Tuchen
  • Bernard Bourlès

Marcus Dengler's research contributions reflect involvement in extensive oceanographic studies addressing physical and biological processes across various marine environments, with particular emphasis on climate interactions, ocean circulation, and productivity in tropical and equatorial regions.

Best Publications

  • The shallow overturning circulation of the Indian Ocean

    Friedrich A. Schott;Marcus Dengler;Rena Schoenefeldt

  • Circulation and Deep-Water Export at the Western Exit of the Subpolar North Atlantic

    Friedrich A. Schott;Rainer Zantopp;Lothar Stramma;Marcus Dengler

  • On the role of circulation and mixing in the ventilation of oxygen minimum zones with a focus on the eastern tropical North Atlantic

    Peter Brandt;Hermann W. Bange;Donata Banyte;Marcus Dengler

  • Break-up of the Atlantic deep western boundary current into eddies at 8° S

    Marcus Dengler;Friedrich Schott;Carsten Eden;Peter Brandt

  • The shallow and deep western boundary circulation of the South Atlantic at 5-11°S

    Friedrich A. Schott;Marcus Dengler;Rainer Zantopp;Lothar Stramma

  • Boundary Circulation at the Exit of the Labrador Sea

    Jürgen Fischer;Friedrich A. Schott;Marcus Dengler

  • Tidal-induced mixing and diapycnal nutrient fluxes in the Mauritanian upwelling region

    Jens Schafstall;Marcus Dengler;Peter Brandt;Hermann W. Bange

  • The zonal currents and transports at 35°W in the tropical Atlantic

    Friedrich A. Schott;Marcus Dengler;Peter Brandt;Karina Affler

  • Organic carbon production, mineralisation and preservation on the Peruvian margin

    Andrew W. Dale;Stefan Sommer;Ulrike Lomnitz;Ivonne Montes

  • Equatorial upper-ocean dynamics and their interaction with the West African monsoon

    Peter Brandt;Guy Caniaux;Bernard Bourlès;Alban Lazar

  • Interannual atmospheric variability forced by the deep equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Peter Brandt;Andreas Funk;Verena Hormann;Verena Hormann;Marcus Dengler

  • The formation of a subsurface anticyclonic eddy in the Peru-Chile Undercurrent and its impact on the near-coastal salinity, oxygen, and nutrient distributions

    Sören Thomsen;Torsten Kanzow;Gerd Krahmann;Richard John Greatbatch;Richard John Greatbatch

  • Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current east of the Grand Banks

    Friedrich A. Schott;Jürgen Fischer;Marcus Dengler;Rainer Zantopp

  • Deep Labrador Current and its variability in 1996–2005

    Marcus Dengler;Jürgen Fischer;Friedrich A. Schott;Rainer Zantopp

  • Annual Rossby waves in the Arabian Sea from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter and in situ data

    Peter Brandt;Lothar Stramma;Friedrich A. Schott;Jürgen Fischer

  • PIRATA: A Sustained Observing System for Tropical Atlantic Climate Research and Forecasting

    Bernard Bourlès;Moacyr Araujo;Michael J. McPhaden;Peter Brandt;Peter Brandt

  • Seasonal and regional variability of upper ocean diapycnal heat flux in the Atlantic cold tongue

    Rebecca Hummels;Marcus Dengler;Bernard Bourlès

  • Interannual to decadal changes in the Western boundary circulation in the Atlantic at 11°S

    Rebecca Hummels;Peter Brandt;Marcus Dengler;Jürgen Fischer

  • Factors influencing the distribution of epibenthic megafauna across the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

    Thomas Mosch;Stefan Sommer;Marcus Dengler;Anna Noffke

  • Oxygen tongues and zonal currents in the equatorial Atlantic

    Peter Brandt;Verena Hormann;Bernard Bourlès;Jürgen Fischer

  • Depletion of oxygen, nitrate and nitrite in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone cause an imbalance of benthic nitrogen fluxes

    Stefan Sommer;Jessica Gier;Tina Treude;Ulrike Lomnitz

  • Tropical Atlantic Observing System

    Gregory R. Foltz;P. Brandt;Ingo Richter;Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca

  • On the role of circulation and mixing in the ventilation of oxygen minimum zones with a focus on the eastern tropical North Atlantic

    Peter Brandt;Hermann Werner Bange;Donata Banyte;Marcus Dengler

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Brandt
Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Richard J. Greatbatch
Richard J. Greatbatch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Martin Visbeck
Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Johannes Karstensen
Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Hermann W. Bange
Hermann W. Bange GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Lothar Stramma
Lothar Stramma GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Friedrich Schott
Friedrich Schott Kiel University
Monika Rhein
Monika Rhein University of Bremen
Andrew W. Dale
Andrew W. Dale GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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