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Dr. Manita Chouksey

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Email:     maninullta.chouksey@iow.de
Phone: +49 (381) 5197-287
Fax: +49 (381) 5197-480

 

Address:
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
Seestrasse 15
18119 Rostock-Warnemünde
Germany

Expertise

Theoretical Oceanography, Internal Waves, Nonlinear Dynamics, Coastal Upwelling Dynamics, Balanced Flows, Eddy-Wave Interactions, Wave-Wave Interactions, Instabilities, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Multiscale Modelling, Ventilation Pathways, Lagrangian Tracking, Machine Learning

International Roles

  • Co-Chair CLIVAR's Global Ocean Model Development Panel (OMDP)
  • Associate Editor for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal
  • Editor for the special issue "Turbulence, wave–current interactions, and other nonlinear physical processes in lakes and oceans'' in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG), an European Geophysical Union (EGU) Journal

Selected Invited Presentations

2026
  • The Balance Conundrum: A century old challenge and new perspectives. Meeting on "Perspectives and challenges in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics". Ecole Normale Supérieure, July 2026, Paris, France. Link
  • Workshop on "Metastability, critical transitions, and long transients in the Earth system". August 2026, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
2024
  • Nonlinear internal gravity wave generation by balanced flow. AGU session “Oscillations in Internal Fluid Layers of Planets, Moons, and Stars”. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024. Washington D.C., USA.
  • Determination of balance in geophysical flows. Climate Process Team Annual Meeting on “Ocean Transport and Eddy Energy”. August 2024, USA.
2023
  • Eddy-wave interactions and ocean mixing. 11th Warnemünde Turbulence Days on "Linking mixing and circulation at various scales". September 2023, Germany. Link
2021
  • On the existence and role of an interface between the slow and fast manifolds. 10th Warnemünde Turbulence Days on "Interfaces and turbulent boundary layers". September 2021, Germany, online. Link
2020
  • Energy transfers between balanced and unbalanced motions in geophysical flows. SIAM Conference on “Mathematics of Planet Earth”. August 2020, USA, online. Link
  • Energy transfers between balanced and unbalanced motions. EGU session “Mathematics of Planet Earth”, European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2020. Austria, online.

PhD Supervision at IOW

Amjad Hasan Peringampurath (Main Supervisor)

Torben Arne Voß (Co-Supervisor)

  • Water mass transformation processes in the Skagerrak. Project: SkaMix-WMT DFG

Prajwal Jadhav (PhD Committee Member)

Yannik Muche (PhD Committee Member)

 

Projects at IOW

Publications

2026

  • Chouksey M., T. Akylas, M. Buijsman, H. Burchard, C. Eden, N. Jones, K. Klingbeil, M. P. Lelong, and L. Umlauf (2026). Waves and Turbulence Across Scales: Generation, Evolution, Interactions, and Dissipation.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. BAMS-D-26-0187.1 doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-26-0187.1
  • Rosenau, S. G., M. Chouksey, and C. Eden (2026). Flow decomposition by optimal balance with time-averaging. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 18, e2025MS005477, doi:10.1029/2025ms005477

2025

  • Voss, M., P. Holtermann, S. Ahmerkamp, D. L. Arévalo Martínez, B. Cahill, M. Chouksey, J. W. Dippner, J. Dutz, P. Feldens, J. Geersen, K. Gentsch, M. Gogina, D. Herlemann, J. Henkel, M. Kanwischer, B. Krebs, A. Kremp, A. Malissery, R. Mars, J. Müller, S. Neubert, H. Osterholz, H. Radtke, G. Rehder, K. Romoth, M. Sass, I. Sassenhagen, O. Schmale, M. v. Thenen, M. v. Weber and O. Zielinski (2025). Coastal zones of the Baltic Sea in the Anthropocene: Current state and the impact of climate change. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 326: 109504, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109504

2024

  • Burchard, H., M. Alford, M. Chouksey, G. Dematteis, C. Eden, I. Giddy, K. Klingbeil, A. Le Boyer, D. Olbers, J. Pietrzak, F. Pollmann, K. Polzin, F. Roquet, P. S. Saez, S. Swart, L. Umlauf, G. Voet and B. Wynne-Cattanach (2024). Linking ocean mixing and overturning circulation. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 105: E1265-E1274, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0082.1
  • Saez, P. S., C. Eden and M. Chouksey (2024). Evolution of internal gravity waves in a mesoscale eddy simulated using a novel model. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 54: 985-1002, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-23-0095.1

2023

  • Chouksey, M., C. Eden, G. T. Masur and M. Oliver (2023). A comparison of methods to balance geophysical flows. J. Fluid Mech. 971: A2, doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.602

2022

  • Chouksey, A., A. Griesel, M. Chouksey and C. Eden (2022). Changes in Global Ocean Circulation due to Isopycnal Diffusion. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 52, 9: 2219-2235, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0205.1
  • Chouksey, M., A. Griesel, C. Eden and R. Steinfeldt (2022). Transit Time Distributions and Ventilation Pathways Using CFCs and Lagrangian Backtracking in the South Atlantic of an Eddying Ocean Model. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 52, 7: 1531-1548, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0070.1
  • Chouksey, M., C. Eden and D. Olbers (2022). Gravity Wave Generation in Balanced Sheared Flow Revisited. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 52, 7: 1351-1362, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0115.1

2021

  • Tippenhauer, S., M. Janout, M. Chouksey, S. Torres-Valdes, A. Fong and T. Wulff (2021). Substantial Sub-Surface Chlorophyll Patch Sustained by Vertical Nutrient Fluxes in Fram Strait Observed With an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Front. Mar. Sci. 8, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.605225

2019

  • Eden, C., M. Chouksey and D. Olbers (2019). Gravity Wave Emission by Shear Instability. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 49, 9: 2393-2406, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0029.1
  • Eden, C., M. Chouksey and D. Olbers (2019). Mixed Rossby–Gravity Wave–Wave Interactions. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 49, 1: 291-308, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-18-0074.1

2018

  • Chouksey, M., C. Eden and N. Brüggemann (2018). Internal Gravity Wave Emission in Different Dynamical Regimes. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 48, 8: 1709-1730, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0158.1
  • Chouksey, M. (2018). Disentangling gravity waves from balanced flow. PhD Thesis, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. doi:10.17617/2.3000108

Physical Oceanography