SimOcean
Simulating and forecasting southern Africa's ocean

Team

Bjorn Backeberg
Bjorn Backeberg
  • Position:
  • Post-doctoral fellow at the Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
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  • Role:
  • Develop HYCOM for mesoscale modelling of the Agulhas Current. Implementing an ocean modelling platform for southern Africa in support of research and operational activities.
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  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town
  • Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
  • Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography
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  • Research Interests:
  • Mesoscale ocean modelling of the Agulhas Current
  • Marine satellite remote sensing
  • Coastal oceanography
  • Ocean-atmosphere dynamics
  • Operational Oceanography
Jennifer Veitch
Jennifer Veitch
  • Position:
  • UCT/ACCESS Post-doctoral fellow
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  • Role:
  • Modelling the dynamics of the Benguela Current System. Implementing an ocean modelling platform for southern Africa in support of research and operational activities.
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  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town
  • Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research
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  • Research Interests:
  • Modelling the Benguela Current system
  • Agulhas Current impact on the Benguela upwelling system
  • Operational Oceanography
Roy van Ballegooyen
  • Position:
  • Group leader Coastal Systems, CSIR
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  • Research Interests:
  • Regional and localized wave forecast system.
  • Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales
Gerhardus Diedricks
  • Position:
  • Environmental and biomonitoring services, CSIR
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  • Research Interests:
  • Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales.
Marius Rossouw
  • Position:
  • CSIR
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  • Research Interests:
  • Regional and localized wave forecast system.
Alan Meyer
Alan Meyer
  • Position:
  • CSIR
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  • Research Interests:
  • Biogeochemical modelling at coastal, embayment and nearshore scales.
Frank Shillington
  • Position:
  • Head of Department Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
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  • Research Interests:
  • Coastal oceanography
  • Satellite remote sensing, wind waves
  • Numerical ocean modelling of shelf-circulation
Chris Reason
  • Position:
  • Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
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  • Research Interests:
  • Southern hemisphere climate variability
  • South African rainfall variability
  • Mesoscale and coastal meteorology
  • Severe weather
  • Ocean-atmosphere interactions
  • Indian and South Atlantic Oceans
  • Southern Ocean
  • Ocean and atmospheric modelling
George Philander
  • Position:
  • Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
    Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
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  • Research Interests:
  • Ocean-atmosphere interactions
  • Paleoclimate