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Francesca Doglioni

Research Interests

  • Sea level variability
  • Ocean circulation in the Arctic and North Atlantic regions
  • Circulation changes and their impact on the climate
  • Freshwater exchange between the Arctic and the North Atlantic
  • Satellite altimetry (including Polar regions)
  • Analysis of satellite-based and in-situ observations
Scientific Degrees  
12/2023 PhD in Natural Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany.
Dissertation title: Arctic sea level and geostrophic flow: from the development of a satellite-based pan-Arctic dataset to the study of the seasonality from satellite remote sensing and model output.
10/2017 Master in Physics of the Earth System, University of Bologna, Italy.
Thesis title: Coastal altimetry for the computation of a Mean Dynamic Topography in the Mediterranean Sea.
04/2014 Bachelor in Physics, University of Padova, Italy.
Thesis title: Microwave emission from dielectric non-linear crystals, excited by means of infrared laser pulses.
Academic Education  
07/2018 - 12/2023 PhD candidate, Physical Oceanography, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany.
10/2014 - 10/2017 Master program Physics of the Earth System, University of Bologna, Italy
10/2010 - 04/2014 Bachelor in Physics, University of Padova, Italy
Projects  
2024-2027
Explaining and predicting the ocean conveyor (EPOC)
Horizon Europe
Contribution to WP2:
Determine key processes that make, or break, meridional connectivity of ocean transports in the AMOC, specifically: quantify the influence of the North Atlantic Current on the variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current.
2019-2020
Regional Atlantic Circulation and Global Change (RACE)
BMBF
Contribution:
Changes in the Arctic Ocean surface circulation from remote sensing.
01/2020
Outreach Project with high school students
(1 week): Studying the Earth System and understanding climate change
Contribution:
Creation of original concept and execution of: - 4 h seminars; - 20 h of lab experiments on climate; - with 200+ students.
Outcome:
Experiments sheets publicly available in 5 languages (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4964777).
Scientific position  
01/2024 - present Postdoc researcher within the EPOC project (see above)
Project management  
10/2021 - 06/2023 Scientific coordination assistant, project GROCE-2 (BMBF), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Publications
Kanzow, T., Mölg, T., Scheinert, M., Humbert, A., ... , Doglioni, F., et al. (in preparation): The atmosphere-land/ice-ocean system in the 79 N region, Northeast Greenland: Synthesis and key findings from GROCE, to be submitted to The Cryosphere
Doglioni, F., Kanzow, T., Wekerle, C., Danilov, S. (in preparation): Large scale forcing of the Arctic sea level seasonality and its implications for slope currents, to be submitted to JGR Ocean
Doglioni, F., Ricker, R., Rabe, B., Barth, A., Troupin, C., and Kanzow, T. (2023), Sea surface height anomaly and geostrophic current velocity from altimetry measurements over the Arctic Ocean (2011–2020), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, doi:10.5194/essd-15-225-2023.
Rabe, B., Heuzé, C., Regnery, J., ... , Doglioni, F., et al. (2022): Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical Oceanography, Elem. Sci. Anth., doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.00062.
Published datasets
Doglioni, F., Kanzow, T., Rabe, B., Ricker, R. (2023): Steric height and bottom pressure water equivalent derived from mooring data in the Beaufort Sea (update), doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.963706.
Doglioni, F., Ivanov, V., Kanzow, T., Rabe, B., Ricker, R. (2021): Steric height and bottom pressure water equivalent derived from mooring data at the Laptev Sea continental slope, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931875.
Doglioni, F., Ivanov, V., Kanzow, T., Rabe, B., Ricker, R. (2021): Steric height and bottom pressure water equivalent derived from mooring data at the shelf break north of the Arctic Cape, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931878.
Doglioni, F., Kanzow, T., Rabe, B., Ricker, R. (2021): Steric height and bottom pressure water equivalent derived from mooring data in the Fram Strait, doi.10.1594/PANGAEA.931871.
Doglioni, F., Ricker, R., Rabe, B., Barth, A., Troupin, C., Kanzow, T. (2021): Pan-Arctic monthly maps of sea surface height anomaly and geostrophic velocity from the satellite altimetry Cryosat-2 mission, 2011-2020, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931869.
Conferences and talks  
2022/2023 [talks] Arctic Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF), Iceland (2022) and Gran Canaria (2023).

Talks on topics: Artic slope currents seasonality from altimetry and model output: observations and drivers.
2022 [invited talk] IARPC Collaboration Team meeting (US-based), online.

Talk: ’Arctic sea-level and geostrophic currents from satellite altimetry: seasonality from a large-scale perspective.’
2020/2021/2022 [talks and posters] European Geosciences Union (EGU) general meeting, Vienna (Austria).

Poster presentation and talks on topics: satellite altimetry in the Arctic Ocean, sea level and slope currents seasonality.
2021 [invited talk] Seminars at dept. of Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography, University of Liège, online.

Talk: ’Seasonal cycle of Arctic Ocean circulation inferred from satellite altimetry.’
2019 [poster] Living Planet Symposium 2019, Milan (Italy).

Poster: ’Arctic Ocean near-surface circulation: preliminary results from a comparison between altimetry and in situ observations.’
Participation in Scientific Cruises        
RV Akademik Fedorov, MOSAiC Central Arctic September-October 2019 Trømso, Norway - Trømso, Norway PI: T. Krumpen