Theses

In the following you find abstracts of theses, which were conducted in our working group (pdfs).

Ph.D. Theses

Jan Niklas Dettmer (2026)	Spectral and vertical decomposition of eddy energy pathways
Pablo Sebastia Saez (2026)	Energy Pathways of the Internal Gravity Wave Field in the Ocean driven by Wave–Mean Flow and Wave–Wave Interactions
Thomas Eriksen (2021)	Lee waves in IDEMIX: the effect and sensitivity of implementing a lee wave module in an internal wave model
Wenguo Li (2021)	Climate-related changes of coastal tidal ranges in the North Sea and their driving factors
Mihael Machado de Souza (2020)	Effects of Climate Change on the Physical Conditions of the Brazilian Shelf
Zheen Zhang (2020)	Regionalization of a Global Climate Change Scenario for the Bay of Bengal under Special Consideration of Rossby Waves and Coastal Kelvin Waves
Abdul Basit (2020)	Upwelling and Related Processes in the Banda and Northern Arafura Seas
Larissa Schultze (2018)	Natural variability of turbulence and stratification in a tidal shelf sea and the possible impact of offshore wind farms
Philipp Jurgenowski-Wiegandt (2018)	Wind-induced energy fluxes and internal gravity waves in a realistic numerical model of the North Atlantic
Manita Chouksey (2018)	Disentangling gravity waves from balanced flow
Friederike Pollmann (2017)	Oceanic internal gravity waves and turbulent mixing : observations and parameterizations
Bing Han (2017)	The conversion rate of lee waves and the energetics of internal tides
Feifei Liu (2016)	Assessment of the effect of SPM variations on the phytoplankton dynamics in the Bohai Sea
Daniel Mukiibi (2016)	Chaotic advection by submesoscale processes in the ocean
Nils Brüggemann (2014)	Ageostrophic effects on large scale circulation, eddy mixing and dissipation in the ocean
Mahdi Mohammadi Aragh (2014)	The impact of advection schemes on lateral shear and baroclinic instability
Tanja Carolin Mildner (2013)	Past and present ocean dynamics in the western subtropical Atlantic
Ina Lorkowski (2013)	The Carbon Pump of the Northwest-European Shelf : Variability due to Phytoplankton Dynamics and Climate Change

M.Sc. Theses

Anagha Aravind (2026)	Eddy diffusivities from surface drifters in the Southern Ocean
Simon Schäfers (2025)	Role of mesoscale eddies on ventilation pathways of the South Atlantic Ocean using Lagrangian backtracking
Che Enneper (2024)	On the breaking of lee waves in critical layers in dependence of their Froude number
Silvano Rosenau (2024)	On flow decomposition in realistic ocean models
Lennart Möller (2024)	Evaluating the Performance of the ECOHAM Model in Simulating North Sea pCO2 with In Situ FerryBox Observations from 2012, 2013, and 2014
Nikolaos Lymperis (2023)	Langmuir Turbulence generation under wind/wave misalignment
Luca Kunz (2023)	Transient attracting profiles in the great Pacific garbage patch
Felix Meissner (2023)	On the vertical structure of oceanic eddies
Emelie Breunig (2023)	Diagnosing the Inverse Energy Cascade from Satellite Data
Ryan Mole (2022)	A Bayesian Approach to Eddy Diffusivities of Lagrangian Particles
Ingo Wagner (2022)	Propagation and dissipation of lee wave energy in a single column model
Jan Niklas Dettmer (2022)	Spectral resolution of the Lorenz energy cycle
Pablo Sebastia Saez (2022)	Interaction of Internal Gravity Waves with Sub/Meso-Dynamics
Maryam Yazdanyar (2021)	Effect of Topographical Features on the Tidal Dynamics in the Pozm Bay, Iran
Raphael Pistor (2021)	Understanding of Saturn's North Pole Hexagon
Julius Lauber (2019)	On the response of near-inertial waves to a typhoon
Birte Gülk (2019)	Lagrangian statistics in the California upwelling system
Ashwita Chouksey (2019)	The role of isopycnal mixing for tracer uptake in the global ocean
Joshua Pein (2019)	The role of hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent structures on the transfer of passive tracers
Arthur Secato (2019)	Observation of submesoscale fronts in the upper ocean following a storm
Ria Oelerich (2018)	Lagrangian Single Particle Statistics in the Benguela Upwelling System off Namibia
Wenguo Li (2018)	Resource Assessment of Tidal Current Energy and Impacts of Energy Extraction in the North Sea
Darko Salaj (2018)	Observed and modelled onshore-offshore variability of oxygen and plankton on a high resolution transect: estimations of nutrient concentration within a selected offshore area of the transect
Jan Kossack (2018)	Implications of the parameterization of mesoscale eddy mixing for passive tracer transport in an idealized model of the Southern Ocean
Tabea Brodhagen (2015)	Effects of phytoplankton motility on upper ocean physics- Modelling biogeopysical feedback mechanisms
Lukas Vollmer (2013)	A global map of meso-scale eddy diffusivities based on linear stability analysis
Hannah Kleppin (2012)	Analysing spiral eddies as an example of baroclinic Mixed Layer instabilities
Matthias Fischer (2012)	On the impact of topography on a zonally reentrant current. An idealized model study.
Sören Thomsen (2012)	Instabilities in the Labrador Current
Gregor Halfmann (2010)	Southern Ocean characteristics control Meridional Overturning: sensitivity studies using a zonally averaged ocean model