Researcher

Erik Behrens

Erik is an ocean modeller with expertise in developing high resolution nested earth system models. As part of the Deep South Challenge he developed a nested model for the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (NZEEZ) to improve the representation of the oceanic circulation around NZ and, therefore, climate projections.

Related Resources

The unprecedented coupled ocean-atmosphere summer heatwave in the New Zealand region 2017/18: drivers, mechanisms and impacts
Journal or chapter
The Impact of Sea-Ice Drift and Ocean Circulation on Dispersal of Toothfish Eggs and Juveniles in the Ross Gyre and Amundsen Sea
Journal or chapter
The sensitivity of Southern Ocean atmospheric dimethyl sulfide (DMS) to modeled oceanic DMS concentrations and emissions
Journal or chapter
How New Zealand's Ocean is Changing
Video, podcast, game
The Response of the Subtropical Front to Changes in the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds—Evidence From Models and Observations
Journal or chapter
Ocean data to support adaptation
Stakeholder factsheet
A Mean Heat: How the climate is driving marine heatwaves
Research webinar
Projections of Future Marine Heatwaves for the Oceans Around New Zealand
Journal or chapter
Global ocean modelling in the Deep South Challenge
Research webinar
Local grid refinement in New Zealand's Earth System Model: Tasman Sea ocean circulation improvements and super‐gyre circulation Implications
Journal or chapter
Southern Ocean deep convection in global climate models
Journal or chapter
Development of the New Zealand Earth System Model: NZESM
Journal or chapter
The unprecedented coupled ocean-atmosphere summer heatwave in the New Zealand region 2017-18: Drivers, mechanisms and impacts
Journal or chapter
Meridional oceanic heat transport influences marine heatwaves in the Tasman Sea on interannual to decadal timescales
Journal or chapter