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Volker Mohrholz is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on oceanographic and atmospheric phenomena.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these, Mohrholz focuses on several subfields, such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

The topics covered by their work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Mohrholz has contributed to a number of research publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary, 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Carbon assimilating fungi from surface ocean to subseafloor revealed by coupled phylogenetic and stable isotope analysis, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Platelet Ice Under Arctic Pack Ice in Winter, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The relation of wind-driven coastal and offshore upwelling in the Benguela Upwelling System, 2021, Journal of Physical Oceanography

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • The ISME Journal

Mohrholz collaborates with several co-authors on their work. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kirstin Schulz
  • Ilker Fer
  • Mario Hoppmann
  • Markus Janout
  • Sandra Tippenhauer

Best Publications

  • Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans

    Lothar Stramma;Gregory C. Johnson;Janet Sprintall;Volker Mohrholz

  • Synchronous ecological regime shifts in the central Baltic and the North Sea in the late 1980s

    J. Alheit;C. Möllmann;Jörg Dutz;G. Kornilovs

  • Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

    Gaute Lavik;Torben Stührmann;Volker Brüchert;Volker Brüchert;Anja Van der Plas

  • Fresh oxygen for the Baltic Sea — An exceptional saline inflow after a decade of stagnation

    V. Mohrholz;M. Naumann;G. Nausch;S. Krüger

  • Vertical mixing in the Baltic Sea and consequences for eutrophication - A review

    Jan Hinrich Reissmann;Hans Burchard;Rainer Feistel;Eberhard Hagen

  • The seasonal variability of the northern Benguela undercurrent and its relation to the oxygen budget on the shelf

    V. Mohrholz;C.H. Bartholomae;A.K. van der Plas;H.U. Lass

  • Major Baltic Inflow Statistics – Revised

    Volker Mohrholz

  • Ventilation of the Baltic Sea deep water: A brief review of present knowledge from observations and models

    Markus Meier;Rainer Feistel;Jan Piechura;Lars Arneborg

  • The Inflow of Highly Saline Water into the Baltic Sea

    Wolfgang Matthäus;Dietwart Nehring;Rainer Feistel;Günther Nausch

  • Variability of natural hypoxia and methane in a coastal upwelling system: Oceanic physics or shelf biology?

    P. M. S. Monteiro;P. M. S. Monteiro;A. van der Plas;V. Mohrholz;E. Mabille

  • Hydrographic and current measurements in the area of the Angola-Benguela Front

    H. U. Lass;M. Schmidt;V. Mohrholz;G. Nausch

  • Nepheloid layer distribution in the Benguela upwelling area offshore Namibia

    Maik Inthorn;Volker Mohrholz;Matthias Zabel

  • The impact of exceptionally warm summer inflow events on the environmental conditions in the Bornholm Basin

    Volker Mohrholz;Jörg Dutz;Gerd Kraus

  • On dynamics and mixing of inflowing saltwater in the Arkona Sea

    H. U. Lass;V. Mohrholz

  • Phosphorus input by upwelling in the eastern Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) in summer and its effects on filamentous cyanobacteria

    Monika Nausch;Günther Nausch;Hans Ulrich Lass;Volker Mohrholz

  • Anatomizing one of the largest saltwater inflows into the Baltic Sea in December 2014

    Ulf Gräwe;Michael Naumann;Volker Mohrholz;Hans Burchard

  • The contribution of zooplankton to methane supersaturation in the oxygenated upper waters of the central Baltic Sea

    Oliver Schmale;Janine Wäge;Volker Mohrholz;Norbert Wasmund

  • Carbon assimilating fungi from surface ocean to subseafloor revealed by coupled phylogenetic and stable isotope analysis

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  • The Knudsen theorem and the Total Exchange Flow analysis framework applied to the Baltic Sea

    Hans Burchard;Karsten Bolding;Rainer Feistel;Ulf Gräwe

  • The hydrography and dynamics of the Angola- Benguela Frontal Zone and environment in April 1999

    V. Mohrholz;M. Schmidt

  • On the interaction between the subtropical gyre and the Subtropical Cell on the shelf of the SE Atlantic

    Hans Ulrich Lass;Volker Mohrholz

  • Response of the Benguela upwelling systems to spatial variations in the wind stress

    Wolfgang Fennel;Tim Junker;Martin Schmidt;Volker Mohrholz

  • Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region: A Summary

    H. E. Markus Meier;H. E. Markus Meier;Madline Kniebusch;Christian Dieterich;Matthias Gröger

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Benjamin Rabe
Benjamin Rabe Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Johann R. E. Lutjeharms
Johann R. E. Lutjeharms University of Cape Town
Tim Rixen
Tim Rixen Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society
Julienne Stroeve
Julienne Stroeve University of Manitoba
Scarla J. Weeks
Scarla J. Weeks University of Queensland
Hans-Jürgen Hirche
Hans-Jürgen Hirche Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Christian Möllmann
Christian Möllmann Universität Hamburg

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