Arne M.E. Winguth

Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Hamburg, 1997. Research interests include physical oceanography, paleoceonography, climate dynamics, and marine biogeochemical cycles. Funded projects include assimilation of chlorophyll data into a marine carbon cycle model (NASA Carbon Cycle Science) and simulation of the carbon cycle during the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (NSF-EAR)

My interests are in ocean and atmospheric dynamics and its interactions with biogeochemical cycles over a broad range of Earth History. The synthesis of complex earth system models with high-resolution paleoclimatic data is an important task in order to understand the past climate and climate change and the consequences for future climate evolution. During my Ph.D. studies at the Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Meteorologie in Hamburg, Germany, I developed an inverse ocean general circulation model and assimilated paleoproxies into this model to reconstruct the ocean circulation during the last glacial maximum. The paleoclimatic studies were continued in as a Research Associate at the University of Chicago through the consideration of an extended database. As Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I was principal investigator of a NASA project to assimilate ocean color data into a inverse three-dimensional ocean carbon cycle model. As a side project and in close collaboration with the MPI, I included the marine carbon cycle into an earth system model and applied this model for future climate studies. Moreover, a coupled atmosphere-ocean model of intermediate complexity has been applied to investigate circulation changes and anoxia at the Permian-Triassic boundary (~251 My B.P.). My current research at the University of Texas at Arlington is supported by the National Science Foundation and is focused on climatic changes during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55 My B.P.).

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