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I have accepted an Associate Professorship at Stockholm University from 1 September 2011.

My new homepage is at http://people.su.se/~adebo

You can reach me at agatha.deboer(at)geo.su.se

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Best regards,

Agatha

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AGATHA M. DE BOER Ph.D.  Physical Oceanography  (Florida State University) RCUK academic fellow on faculty, Meterology, Oceanography, and Climate Dynamics Group, School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Email:  a.deboer(at)uea.ac.uk Work tel:  +44 (0) 1603 59 3762 Room: 01.37E

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Publications:

Where applicable, please use the articles below only in accordance with the copyright of the journal in which it is published.

Sime, L. C., K. E. Kohfeld, C. Le Quere, E. W. Wolff, A. M. de Boer, and L. Bopp, 2010, Strengthening of the Southern Ocean westerlies during glaciations. Submitted

De Boer, A. M., 2010, Oceanography: Sea change, Nature Geoscience, 3(10): 668-669

De Boer, A. M., A. J. Watson, N. R. Edwards, K. I. C. Oliver, 2010, A comprehensive, multi-process box-model approach to glacial-interglacial carbon cycling., Climates of the Past , 6, 827-841, doi:10.5194/cp-6-827-2010, 2010

De Boer, A. M., A. Gnanadesikan, N. R. Edwards, A. J. Watson, 2010, Meridional density gradients do not control the Atlantic overturning circulation. J. of Phys. Oceanography, 40(2): 368-380

De Boer, A. M., J. R. Toggweiler and D. M. Sigman, 2008, Atlantic dominance of the Meridional Overturning Circulation. J. of Phys. Oceanography, 38(2): 435

Nof, D., S. van Gorder and A. M. de Boer, 2007, Does the Atlantic meridional overturning cell really have more than one stable steady state? Deep-Sea Res. I, 54 (11), 2005-2021

Gnanadesikan, A., A. M. de Boer, B. K. Mignone, 2007, A simple theory of the pycnocline and overturning - revisited.Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series 173, Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 19-32

Sigman, D. M., A. M. de Boer and G. H. Haug, 2007, An Antarctic overturning hypothesis for deglaciations. Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series 173, Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 335-349

De Boer, A. M., D. M. Sigman, J. R. Toggweiler and J. L. Russell, 2007, The effect of global ocean temperature change on deep ocean ventilation. Paleoceanography, 22, PA2210, doi:10.1029/2005PA001242

De Boer, A. M. and H. L. Johnson, 2007, Inferring the zonal distribution of measured changes in the meridional overturning circulation. Ocean Science, 3, 55-57

De Boer, A. M and D. Nof, 2005, The Island Wind-Buoyancy Connection Tellus, 57A, Issue 5, 783-797

De Boer, A. M and D. Nof, 2004, The Bering Strait 's Grip on the Northern Hemisphere Climate. Deep-Sea Res., 51, 1347-1366

De Boer, A. M and D. Nof, 2005, Erratum to: The Bering Strait 's Grip on the Northern Hemisphere Climate. Deep-Sea Res., 52(4), 669-670

Nof, D. and A. M. de Boer, 2004, From the Southern Ocean to the North Atlantic in the Ekman layer?  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 85, 79-87

De Boer, A. M and D. Nof, 2004, The exhaust valve of the North Atlantic. Letter in J. Climate, 17, 417-422

Research Interests:

The ocean plays a central role in the earth's climate because of its capacity to store large amounts of heat and carbon. I am interested in all aspects of this ocean-climate relation. As a result, my research projects are diverse and include:

- The physics of the Southern Ocean during the last ice age and its effect on Carbon uptake.

- The role of surface buoayncy forcing on the Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation

- Controls of the global overturning circulation, namely, the wind field, continental geometry, buoyancy forcing, small scale mixing and eddy processes.

- The validity of standard physical oceanographic assumptions (such as level of no motion) and the consequences for heat transport of the thermohaline circulation

- The influence of the opening of the Bering Strait 10,000 years ago on the stability of the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic and on the water and nutrient properties in the Subarctic Pacific.

- The relation between the meridional overturning in the Atlantic and the meridional density gradient.

- The extent to which the winds during the last glacial cycle could have been different from today.

- The underlying processes that determine the distribution and variability of lightning over the ocean.

I serve on the leadership board of the Earth Science Womens Network.