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Member Since 1994
Fiamma Straneo
Professor, Harvard University
Professional Experience
Harvard University
Professor
2024 - Present
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Professor
2017 - 2024
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
1999
Honors & Awards
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Received February 2016
Publications
Recent Freshening of the Subpolar North Atlantic Increased the Transport of Lighter Waters of the Ir...
Starting in 2012, the eastern subpolar North Atlantic experienced the strongest surface freshening in the past 120 years. It is yet unknown wh...
November 14, 2024
Delayed Recovery of the Irminger Interior From Cooling in 20...
January 23, 2024
Glacial Meltwater in the Current System of Southern Greenlan...
December 04, 2023
Slantwise Convection in the Irminger Sea
October 05, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Evidence for a meltwater feedback driving enhanced ice loss from the rifted Thwaites Glacier Tongue revealed by helicopter-deployed ocean sensors
EVOLUTION OF GLACIERS IN POLAR REGIONS: NEW OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS FROM GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS II ORAL
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Jamin S. Greenbaum, Matthew R. Mazloff, Tyler Pell...
Intrusions of warm ocean water are known to drive melting beneath ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. However, num...
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Observations of Near-Plume Internal Tide in a Greenlandic Glacial Fjord
PROCESSES AND ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS AT DYNAMIC ICE STREAM, ICE SHELF, AND MARINE-TERMINATING GLACIER MARGINS II ORAL
cryosphere | 12 december 2024
Robert Sanchez, Fiammetta Straneo, Ken Zhao, Jenni...
Mixing within glacial fjords plays an important role in redistributing heat, freshwater, and nutrients. The strength of mixing impacts glacial melt ra...
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Dynamics of the Greenland Coastal Current: the Effect of Winds, Freshwater Buoyancy, and Seafloor Bathymetry
COASTAL OCEAN AND SHELF SEA DYNAMICS I POSTER
ocean sciences | 12 december 2024
Ken Zhao, Fiammetta Straneo, James Holte, Paul G. ...
The ~20 km-wide Greenland coastal current, a component of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean, plays a significant role in the transport and transformat...
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