Research & Projects

Sotiria is performing her PhD within the context of the NWO-funded VIDI project (Dr. C.A. (Caroline) Katsman, 2013), which involves fundamental research on deep convection and sinking of dense waters in the North Atlantic Ocean, focusing on the role of ocean eddies for these processes.

Sotiria’s involvement in this project is to investigate the impacts of the local eddy activity on deep convection and sinking of dense waters in the Labrador and Irminger Seas. Furthermore, she aims to determine the sensitivity of the convective cycle and sinking to changes in local environmental conditions. She will perform multi-year simulations by using a highly idealized configuration of the MIT General Circulation Model –MITgcm(http://mitgcm.org/).