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Torsten Kanzow is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

Kanzow's work addresses a range of scientific topics such as Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate variability and models, Geology and Paleoclimatology research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Among the notable recent publications are:

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography (2022), published in Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project (2022), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Bathymetry constrains ocean heat supply to Greenland's largest glacier tongue (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Subglacial Discharge and Its Down-Fjord Transformation in West Greenland Fjords With an Ice Mélange (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • FRIS Revisited in 2018: On the Circulation and Water Masses at the Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves in the Southern Weddell Sea (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Kanzow frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Markus Janout, Janin Schaffer, Claudia Wekerle, Rebecca McPherson, and Wilken-Jon von Appen.

The scientist has published extensively in specific venues, particularly:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Ocean science

Best Publications

  • Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Stuart A. Cunningham;Torsten Kanzow;Darren Rayner;Molly O. Baringer

  • Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

    Igor V. Polyakov;Andrey V. Pnyushkov;Matthew B. Alkire;Igor M. Ashik

  • Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N

    William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer;Lisa M. Beal;S. A. Cunningham

  • Seasonal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;S. A. Cunningham;W. E. Johns;J. J-M. Hirschi

  • Observed Flow Compensation Associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic

    Torsten Kanzow;Stuart A. Cunningham;Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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  • Monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi;Torsten Kanzow;William E. Johns

  • 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

  • Observation of decadal change in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation using 10 years of continuous transport data

    Uwe Send;Matthias Lankhorst;Torsten Kanzow

  • Basinwide Integrated Volume Transports in an Eddy-Filled Ocean

    Torsten Kanzow;H.L. Johnson;D.P. Marshall;S.A. Cunningham

  • 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 shallow and deep western boundary currents off the Bahamas during 2004–05: results from the 26°N RAPID–MOC Array

    W. E. Johns;L. M. Beal;M. O. Baringer;J. R. Molina

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

  • Monitoring the integrated deep meridional flow in the tropical North Atlantic: Long-term performance of a geostrophic array

    Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;Uwe Send;Uwe Send;Walter Zenk;Alan D. Chave

  • Bathymetry constrains ocean heat supply to Greenland's largest glacier tongue

    Janin Schaffer;Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;Wilken-Jon von Appen;Luisa von Albedyll

  • The contribution of eastern-boundary density variations to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5° N

    M. P. Chidichimo;Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;S. A. Cunningham;W. E. Johns

  • FRIS Revisited in 2018: On the Circulation and Water Masses at the Filchner and Ronne Ice Shelves in the Southern Weddell Sea

    Markus A. Janout;Hartmut H. Hellmer;Tore Hattermann;Oliver Huhn

  • Seasonal variation of ocean bottom pressure derived from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE): Local validation and global patterns

    Torsten Kanzow;Frank Flechtner;Alan D. Chave;Roland Schmidt

  • Subglacial Discharge and Its Down-Fjord Transformation in West Greenland Fjords With an Ice Mélange

    John Mortensen;Søren Rysgaard;Søren Rysgaard;Jørgen Bendtsen;Kunuk Lennert

  • Warm water pathways toward Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast Greenland

    Janin Schaffer;Wilken-Jon von Appen;Paul A. Dodd;Coen Hofstede

  • Large ice loss variability at Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier, Northeast-Greenland

    Christoph Mayer;Janin Schaffer;Tore Hattermann;Dana Floricioiu

  • Meridional overturning circulation observations in the Subtropical North Atlantic

    O. M. Baringer;T. O. Kanzow;C. S. Meinen;S. A. Cunningham

  • Basin-wide integrated volume transports in an eddy-filled ocean

    Torsten Kanzow;H.L. Johnson;D.P. Marshall;S.A. Cunningham

  • Monitoring the integrated deep meridional flow in the tropical North Atlantic

    Torsten Kanzow

  • 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

Stuart A. Cunningham
Stuart A. Cunningham Scottish Association For Marine Science
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society
William E. Johns
William E. Johns University of Miami
Christopher S. Meinen
Christopher S. Meinen Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Uwe Send
Uwe Send University of California, San Diego
Harry L. Bryden
Harry L. Bryden University of Southampton
Benjamin Rabe
Benjamin Rabe Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marcus Dengler
Marcus Dengler GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Molly O. Baringer
Molly O. Baringer Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Johannes Karstensen
Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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