GEOMAR  Dilmahamod, Fehmi

Dr. Fehmi Dilmahamod

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RD: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Research Unit: Physical Oceanography
Topic 2: Ocean and cryosphere in climate change​​​​​​​

Office:
Building: 5, Tower: 2
Room: 3.222
Phone: +49 431 600-4117
Email: fdilmahamod(at)geomar.de

Address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Germany

Research Interest

  • Oceanic (sub)-mesoscale dynamics
  • Large-scale ocean circulation
  • Biophysical coupled processes
  • Ocean Observation

Experience

  • Since 2021 - Postdoctoral Researcher, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
  • 2019 - 2021 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
  • 2018 - 2019 - Postdoctoral Researcher, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Education

  • 2018 - Ph.D. - University of Bretagne Occidentale (France) & University of Cape Town (South Africa)
  • 2014 - M.Sc. - University of Cape Town (South Africa)
  • 2012 - B.Sc. - University of Mauritius (Mauritius)

Projects

  • EU project ObsSea4Clim (2024 - 2028) - Co-PI at GEOMAR (partner institution) - Ocean observations and indicators for climate and assessments
  • EU and MICIU project COUPLING II (2025 - 2028) - Collaborator - Bio-Physical-Chemical Coupling and Connectivity between the phytoplankton blooms in the Bransfield Strait and the NW Weddell Sea

Expeditions

2026 - Upcoming RV MS Merian MSM 142 (Chief Scientist) - Subpolar North Atlantic 
2025 - Upcoming RS Alkor AL638 (Chief Scientist) - Student cruise - Baltic Sea
2024 - RV MS Merian MSM 129/2 (Co-Chief Scientist) - Subpolar North Atlantic 
2023 - RS Alkor AL599 - Student cruise - Baltic Sea
2022 - RV Meteor M184 - Subpolar North Atlantic
2019 - RV Meteor M156 - Eastern Tropical Upwelling Role 
2016 - RV Antea - Madagascar Ridge Survey
2015 - RV Algoa - Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA)

Publications

Submitted or in review:

Fu, Y., Lozier, M. S., Bower, A., Burmeister, K., Biló, T. C., Cyr, F., Cunningham, S., deYoung, B., Dilmahamod, A. F., de Jong, F., Fried, N., Holliday, P., Fraser ,N., Johns, W. E., Li, F., Karstensen, J., Pickart, R. S., Straneo, F., Yashayaev, I., Characterizing the interannual variability of North Atlantic subpolar overturning, In revision in Geophysical Research Letters

Bendinger, A., Dilmahamod, A. F., Albert, A., Le Sommer, J. and Karstensen, J., Characteristics of mesoscale eddies in the Labrador Sea: Insights from Ship Observations and a Rankine Vortex model, In revision in Journal of Physical Oceanography.

Bouzaiene, M., Guarnieri, A., Delrosso, D., Dilmahamod, A. F., Simoncelli, S., and Fratianni, C.: Geostrophic circulation and tidal effects in the Gulf of Gabès, EGUsphere [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3730, 2024.

Sun, Y., Pickart, R. S., Lin, P., Pacini, A., Macrander, A., Larsen, K-M. H., Hátún, H., Frajka-Williams, E., Lan, J., Dilmahamod A. F.: Reduced transport of overflow water in the West Greenland boundary current system: The role of upstream entrainment, In revision in Journal of Physical Oceanography.

 

Published:

[8]  2023 - Devresse, Q., Becker, K.W., Dilmahamod, A.F., Ortega‐Retuerta, E. and Engel, A., 2023. Dissolved organic matter fluorescence as a tracer of upwelling and microbial activities in two cyclonic eddies in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(8), e2023JC019821. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019821

[7]  2022 - Dilmahamod A. F., Karstensen, J., Dietze, H., Löptien, U., Fennel, K., 2022. Generation mechanisms of mesoscale eddies in the Mauritanian Upwelling Region, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(1), pp. 161-182. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-21-0092.1

[6]  2021 - Ramanantsoa, J.D., Penven, P., Raj, R.P., Renault, L., Ponsoni, L., Ostrowski, M., Dilmahamod, A.F. and Rouault, M., 2021. Where and how the East Madagascar Current retroflection originates?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, p.e2020JC016203. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016203

[5]  2021 -  Bouzaiene, M., Menna, M., Elhmaidi, D., Dilmahamod, A.F. and Poulain, P.M., 2021. Spreading of Lagrangian Particles in the Black Sea: A Comparison between Drifters and a High-Resolution Ocean Model. Remote Sensing, 13(13), p.2603. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132603

[4]  2020 - Dilmahamod, A. F., P. Penven, B. Aguiar-González, C. J. C. Reason and J. C. Hermes (2020), A model investigation of the influences of the South-East Madagascar Current on the South-East Madagascar Bloom, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC.015761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015761

[3]  2019 - Dilmahamod, A. F., P. Penven, B. Aguiar-González, C. J. C. Reason and J. C. Hermes (2019), A new definition of the South-East Madagascar Bloom and analysis of its variability, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 1717-1735. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014582

[2]  2018 - Dilmahamod, A. F., B. Aguiar-González, P. Penven, C. J. C. Reason, W. P. M. De Ruijter, N. Malan and J.C. Hermes (2018), SIDDIES corridor: A major east-west pathway of long-lived surface and subsurface eddies in the subtropical South Indian Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, 5406-5425, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013828

[1]  2016 - Dilmahamod, A. F., J. C. Hermes and C. J. C. Reason (2016), Chlorophyll-a variability in the Seychelles–Chagos Thermocline Ridge: Analysis of a coupled biophysical model, Journal of Marine Systems, 154, 220-232, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2015.10.011

 

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