Orúe-Echevarría Iglesias, Dorleta (Date of defense: 2019-11-04)
The Southwest Atlantic Ocean is a key component of the global climate system. It holds the Confluence of the Brazil and Malvinas Currents (BMC), one of the highest frontal systems of the world ocean. ...
Gasser i Rubinat, Marc (Date of defense: 2018-11-19)
The Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) is a dense (¿>1028.5 kg/m3), saline (38.5 g/kg) ocean stream originated in the evaporative Mediterranean basin flowing westward past Espartel Sill as a fast (>1 ...
De la Fuente Gamero, Patricia (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
The Global Ocean is the largest Earth compartment holding carbon and nutrients that reaches the upper-ocean at temporal scales ranging from months to 10 kyr. The availability of these nutrients is ...
Castellanos Ossa, Paola (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)
During the last two decades the scientific community has recognised the importance of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the upwelling regions on the Earth's climate. This recognition has opened new questions ...
Roca i Sans, Josep-Miquel (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This thesis aims to develop simple models that allow evaluating the relevance of the principal parameters that condition the energy flows in the ocean-atmosphere system, and how changes in these parameters ...
Rosell-Fieschi, Miquel (Date of defense: 2014-07-03)
The velocity fields inferred from the trajectories of Argo floats have proven to be a valuable tool for observing the major ocean currents. The velocity fields can be used to examine statistical properties ...
Peña Izquierdo, Jesús (Date of defense: 2015-02-20)
Regions isolated from the wind-driven circulation are found in the eastern margins of the world's tropical oceans. The weak and stagnant circulation of these so-called “shadow zones”, in combination ...
Llanillo del Río, Pedro José (Date of defense: 2014-10-29)
This dissertation aims at extending our knowledge of the ESP OMZ through two main approaches. The first approach is based on tracer analysis and inverse modeling techniques. Such techniques are applied ...