Cecilie Mauritzen

Cecilie Mauritzen (born 1961 in Oslo) [1] is a Norwegian physical oceanographer who studies connections between ocean currents and climate change.

Her early contributions to oceanography are described in the textbook "Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions[6]" by Barry Klinger ("What Wrong Looks Like from the Inside"):The Nordic Seas provide another example of conventional wisdom being replaced by a new idea.

Some of the densest surface water in the basin occurs in that area, which undergoes intense winter heat loss to the atmosphere and dramatic convection.

She showed that the water took a longer route from the inflow to the outflow, with most of the cooling occurring in boundary currents around the periphery of the Nordic Seas and in the Arctic Ocean.

Later, numerical experiments such as[10] showed that a fluid exchange between cooling basin and the rest of the ocean mostly occurred around the basin boundaries, with cold but relatively quiescent water in the middle "In 2004, Mauritzen was included in the lead author team to write IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007),[11] and since then she has focussed her work primarily on climate change.