Bottom Gravity Currents and Overflows in Deep Channels of the Atlantic Ocean (PDF)

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Roman Tarakanov is a leading scientist of Laboratory of Oceanic Currents at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow (Russia). He has been working at this Institute after graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1996. He is a field oceanographer and his career developed at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow. He received a Ph.D. degree in 2006 and then a doctoral degree in 2015. In 2015 he became a Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He works on interpretation of the field data and satellite data and methods of data processing. During his oceanographic career he participated in 21 long oceanic cruises in the Atlantic and Southern oceans. His research focuses on water masses, ocean fronts, and currents. The role of bottom topography on the formation of the oceanic circulation, investigation of the abyssal flows in the Atlantic Ocean, three-dimensional circulation in the Southern Ocean, application of satellite altimetry for correcting field measurements of currents are most important themes of his interest. He has more than 50 referenced publications and one monograph in the field of his scientific interests. Many times he participated in the international oceanographic conferences and convened sessions on the Southern Ocean. He is a professor of the Department of Oceanography at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is lecturing for the students on the general problems of physical oceanography and supervising the research of many graduate and post-graduate students. He is also a co-author of well illustrated tutorial on the subject of his lectures.



Dmitry Frey is a senior scientist of Laboratory of Hydrological Processes at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow (Russia). He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and got a master's degree in applied physics and mathematics in 2014. Since then he has been working as a physical oceanographer and has defended Ph.D. thesis in 2018. His research is focused on analysis of data of circulation of the ocean. He is a field oceanographer and a specialist in numerical modeling. Despite not very long work at the Shirshov Institute he participated in 11 long oceanic cruises in the Atlantic, Arctic, Southern, and Indian oceans. He is interested in abyssal flows in deep fractures of the submarine ridges, surface currents, equatorial undercurrents, operation with oceanographic equipment, and numerical modeling. He participated in adjusting a model of general circulation in the ocean to the currents in narrow deep fractures working together with the creators of the model at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics. He has publications in different scientific journals. He participated in several international assemblies including IAPSO, AOGS, and EGU.