Office:
Phone: +49-431 600 4103
Fax: +49-431 600 4102
E-Mail: rczechel(at)geomar.de
Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
RD1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
East shore campus
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
Room 3.109
D-24148 Kiel
Germany
Research interests
- largescale ocean circulation
- mesoscale processes and the interplay with biogeochemical processes
- ventilation and variability of oxygen minimum zones
Experience and Education
since 10/2009: Research Scientist (Postdoc), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
10/2007 – 05/2008: Research Scientist, University of Oxford, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
01/2001 – 04/2005: Research Assistant (Ph.D.) at Leibniz Institute of Marine Science, University of Kiel
01/2007: Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Kiel
02/2000: Diploma in Physical Oceanography, Institute for Marine Sciences, University of Kiel
Publications
Brandt, P., Körner, M., Moum, J.N., Roch, M., Subramaniam, A., Czeschel, R., Krahmann, G., Dengler, M., and Kiko, R. (2025) Seasonal productivity of the equatorial Atlantic shaped by distinct wind-driven processes. Nat. Geosci. 18, 84–90 (2025). DOI 10.1038/s41561-024-01609-9, 2025.
Czeschel, R., Schütte, F., Weller, R. A., Stramma, L. (2018) Transport, properties, and life cycles of mesoscale eddies in the eastern tropical South Pacific, Ocean Science, 14, pp. 731-750, DOI 10.5194/os-14-731-2018.
Stramma, L., Bange, H. W., Czeschel, R., Lorenzo, A. and Frank, M. (2013) On the role of mesoscale eddies for the biological productivity and biogeochemistry in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean off Peru, Biogeosciences (BG), 10 (11). pp. 7293-7306. DOI 10.5194/bg-10-7293-2013.
Czeschel, R., Stramma, L., Schwarzkopf, F. U., Giese, B. S., Funk, A. and Karstensen, J. (2011) Middepth circulation of the eastern tropical South Pacific and its link to the oxygen minimum zone, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 116 . C01015. DOI 10.1029/2010JC006565.
Schoenefeldt, R. and Schott, F. (2006) Decadal variability of the Indian Ocean cross-equatorial exchange in SODA, Geophysical Research Letters, 33 . DOI 10.1029/2006GL025891.
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