Cara Nissen

  • Research Associate
  • ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES

Ocean biogeochemical cycles • Biophysical interactions • Ocean modeling

Modeling of Southern Ocean carbon and nutrient cycles under present and future climates; understanding how ocean circulation, the cryosphere and biology interact to shape high-latitude biogeochemical cycles.

Ocean Biogeochemistry Research Group 

Education

  • PhD: ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2019
  • MSc: University of Bergen, Norway, 2014
  • BSc: University of Kiel/GEOMAR, Germany, 2012

Selected publications

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Nissen, C., N. S. Lovenduski, M. Maltrud, A. Gray, Y. Takano, K. Falcinelli, J. Sauvé, K. Smith, 2024: , Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 6415–6435. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-17-6415-2024.

Nissen, C., Lovenduski, N. S., Brooks, C. M., Hoppema, M., Timmermann, R., Hauck, J., 2024: . Nature Communications, 15, 259. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44438-x.

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Hauck, J., Gregor, L., Nissen, C., Patara, L., Hague, M., Mongwe, P., Bushinsky, S., Doney, S. C., Gruber, N., Le Quéré, C., Manizza, M., Mazloff, M., Monteiro, P. M. S., Terhaar, J., 2023: . Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37: e2023GB007848. DOI: 10.1029/2023GB007848

Seifert, M., Nissen, C., Rost, B., Vogt, M., Völker, C., Hauck, J., 2023: . Global Change Biology, 29(15): 1-25. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16799

Hauck, J., Nissen, C., Landschützer, P., Rödenbeck, C., Bushinsky, S., Olsen, A. 2023: . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381(2249). DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0063

Nissen, C., Timmermann, R., Hoppema, M., Gürses, Ö., Hauck, J., 2022: . Nature Communications, 13: 3402. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30671-3

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Nissen, C., Vogt, M., 2021: . Biogeosciences, 18(1): 251-283. DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-251-2021

Nissen, C., Vogt, M., Münnich, M., Gruber, N., Haumann, F. A., 2018: . Biogeosciences, 15(22): 6997-7024. DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-6997-2018