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The list of publications by members of OFyGA since 2011 is given below:

2023

Anna Olivé Abelló, Josep L. Pelegrí, and Francisco Machín, 2023. A Simple Method for Estimating Horizontal Diffusivity. J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 40(6), 739-752. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-22-0097.1

2022

Marta Veny, Borja Aguiar-González, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, 2022. Seasonal circulation and volume transport of the Bransfield Current. Progress in Oceanography, 204. 102795. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102795

Xin Wang, Carlos Moffat, Michael S. Dinniman, John M. Klinck, David A. Sutherland, Borja Aguiar-González, 2022. Variability and Dynamics of Along-Shore Exchange on the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Continental Shelf. J. Geophys. Res., 127(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017645

Rubén Campanero, Nadia Burgoa, Bieito Fernández-Castro, Sara Valiente, Mar Nieto-Cid, Alba M. Martínez-Pérez, María Dolores Gelado-Caballero, Nauzet Hernández-Hernández, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Francisco Machín, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Inés Hernández-García, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Antonio Martínez-Marrero, Javier Arístegui, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado, 2022. High-resolution variability of dissolved and suspended organic matter in the Cape Verde Frontal Zone. Front. Mar. Sci.,9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1006432

S. Valiente, B. Fernández-Castro, R. Campanero, A. Marrero-Díaz, A. Rodríguez-Santana, M.D. Gelado-Cabellero, M. Nieto-Cid, A. Delgado-Huertas, J. Arístegui, X.A. Álvarez-Salgado, 2021. Dissolved and suspended organic matter dynamics in the Cape Verde Frontal Zone (NW Africa). Progress in Oceanography, 201, 102727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102727.

Cristina Villanova-Solano, Francisco J. Díaz-Peña, Cintia Hernández-Sánchez, Javier González-Sálamo, Miguel González-Pleiter, Daura Vega-Moreno, Francisca Fernández-Piñas, Eugenio Fraile-Nuez, Francisco Machín, Javier Hernández-Borges, 2022. Microplastic pollution in sublittoral coastal sediments of a North Atlantic island: The case of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), Chemosphere 288, 132530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132530.

2021

Nadia Burgoa, Francisco Machín, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado, Bieito Fernández-Castro, María Dolores Gelado-Caballero, and Javier Arístegui, 2021. Cape Verde Frontal Zone in summer 2017: lateral transports of mass, dissolved oxygen and inorganic nutrients. Ocean Sci., 17, 769–788. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-769-2021.

Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, José Luis Otero Ferrer, Bieito Fernández Castro, Emilio Marañón, Mariña Blazquez Maseda, Borja Aguiar-González, Paloma Chouciño, Rocío Graña, Víctor Moreira-Coello & Marina Villamaña, 2021. Magnitude of nitrate turbulent diffusion in contrasting marine environments. Scientific Reports, 11, 18804. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97731-4.

Siemer, J. P., Machín, F., González-Vega, A., Arrieta, J. M., Gutiérrez-Guerra, M. A., Pérez-Hernández, M. D., P. Vélez-Belchí, A. Hernández-Guerra, and E. Fraile-Nuez, 2021. Recent trends in SST, Chl-a, productivity and wind stress in upwelling and open ocean areas in the upper Eastern North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2021JC017268. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017268.

Olivé Abelló, A., Pelegrí, J. L., Machín, F., & Vallès-Casanova, I., 2021. The transfer of Antarctic circumpolar waters to the western South Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC017025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017025.

Daura Vega-Moreno, Bárbara Abaroa-Pérez, Paula Domínguez Rein-Loring, Carmen Presas-Navarro, Eugenio Fraile-Nuez, Francisco Machín, 2021. Distribution and transport of microplastics in the upper 1150 m of the water column at the Eastern North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, Canary Islands, Spain. Science of the Total Environment 788, 147802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147802.

Olivé Abelló, A.; Vinha, B.; Machín, F.; Zerbetto, F.; Bakalis, E.; Fraile-Nuez, E., 2021. Analysis of Volcanic Thermohaline Fluctuations of Tagoro Submarine Volcano (El Hierro Island, Canary Islands, Spain). Geosciences, 11, 374. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090374

2020

A. F. Dilmahamod, P. Penven, B. Aguiar-González, C. J. C. Reason, J. C. Hermes, 2020. A Model Investigation of the Influences of the South-East Madagascar Current on the South-East Madagascar Bloom. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, 6, e2019JC015761. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015761.

Drivers of Plankton Distribution Across Mesoscale Eddies at Submesoscale Range
Nauzet Hernández-Hernández, Javier Arístegui, María F. Montero, Esther Velasco-Senovilla, Federico Baltar, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Antonio Martínez-Marrero and Ángel Rodríguez-Santana
Frontiers in Marine Science

Mass, nutrients and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) lateral transports off northwest Africa during fall 2002 and spring 2003
Nadia Burgoa, Francisco Machín, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Antonio Martínez-Marrero, Javier Arístegui, Carlos Manuel Duarte
Ocean Science 16 (2):483-511.

The Southern Caribbean upwelling system off Colombia: Water masses and mixing processes
Marco Correa-Ramirez, Angel Rodríguez-Santana, Constanza Ricaurte-Villota, Jorge Paramo
DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS. 155, 103145.

The influence of diapycnal nutrient fluxes on phytoplankton size distribution in an area of intense mesoscale and sub‐mesoscale activity off Concepción, Chile
A. Corredor-Acosta, C.E. Morales, A. Rodríguez-Santana, V. Anabalón, L.P. Valencia, S. Hormazabal
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

2019

A.Herrera, A.ŜtindlováaI.Martínez, J.Rapp, V.Romero-Kutzner, M.D.Samper, T.Montoto, B.Aguiar-González, T.Packard, M.Gómez, 2019. Microplastic ingestion by Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias) in the Canary Islands coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 139, 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.12.022.

A. F. Dilmahamod, P. Penven, B. Aguiar-González, C. J. C. Reason, J. C. Hermes, 2019. A New Definition of the South-East Madagascar Bloom and Analysis of Its Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 3, 1717-1735. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014582.

T. Morris, B. Aguiar-González, I. Ansorge, J. Hermes, 2019. Lagrangian Evolution of Two Madagascar Cyclonic Eddies: Geometric Properties, Vertical Structure, and Fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 11, 8193-8218. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015090.

Near‐Inertial Wave Trapping Near the Base of an Anticyclonic Mesoscale Eddy Under Normal Atmospheric Conditions
A. Martínez‐Marrero, B. Barceló‐Llull, E. Pallàs‐Sanz, B. Aguiar‐González, S. N. Estrada‐Allis, C. Gordo, D. Grisolía, A. Rodríguez‐Santana, and J. Arístegui
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Vertical Velocity Dynamics and Mixing in an Anticyclone near the Canary Islands
SN Estrada-Allis, B Barceló-Llull, E Pallàs-Sanz, A Rodríguez-Santana, JMAC Souza, E Mason, JC McWilliams, P Sangrà
Journal of Physical Oceanography 49 (2), 431-451

Decadal-scale variability of sardine and anchovy simulated with an end-to-end coupled model of the Canary Current ecosystem
JC Sánchez-Garrido, FE Werner, J Fiechter, KA Rose, EN Curchitser, A Ramos, J García Lafuente, J Arístegui, S Hernández-León, A Rodríguez Santana
Progress in oceanography 171, 212-230

Carbon export through zooplankton active flux in the Canary Current
S Hernández-León, S Putzeys, C Almeida, P Bécognée, A Marrero-Díaz, J Arístegui, L Yebra
Journal of Marine Systems 189, 12-21

Inverse Modeling the Brazil‐Malvinas Confluence
Dorleta Orúe‐Echevarría, Josep L Pelegrí, Francisco Machín, Alonso Hernández‐Guerra, Mikhail Emelianov
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 124 (1), 527-554

2018

A. F. Dilmahamod, B. Aguiar-González, P. Penven, C. J. C. Reason, W. P. M. De Ruijter, N. Malan, J. C. Hermes, 2018. SIDDIES Corridor: A Major East-West Pathway of Long-Lived Surface and Subsurface Eddies Crossing the Subtropical South Indian Ocean. 123, 8, 5406-5425. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC013828.

Mid and Late Holocene sea level variations in the Canary Islands
J Meco, A Lomoschitz, A.J. Gonzalez-Ramos, R Ángel Rodríguez, JF Betancort, J Coca
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 507, 214-225

Deep-Ocean Tides in the South-West Indian Ocean: Comparing Deep-Sea Pressure to Satellite Data
LRM Maas, B Aguiar-González, L Ponsoni
The Ocean in Motion, 147-182

2017

Voldsund, Aksel; Aguiar-González, Borja; Gammelsrød, Tor; Krakstad, Jens-Otto; Ullgren, Jenny, 2017. Observations of the East Madagascar Current system: Dynamics and volume transports. Journal of Marine Research, 75, 4, 531-555. https://doi.org/10.1357/002224017821836725.

Anatomy of a subtropical intrathermocline eddy
Bàrbara Barceló-Llull, Pablo Sangrà, Enric Pallàs-Sanz, Eric D Barton, Sheila N Estrada-Allis, Antonio Martínez-Marrero, Borja Aguiar-González, Diana Grisolía, Carmen Gordo, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Javier Arístegui
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 124, 126-139, 2017.

Tracking the Mediterranean outflow in the Gulf of Cadiz
Marc Gasser, Josep L Pelegrí, Mikhail Emelianov, Miguel Bruno, Eulàlia Gràcia, Marcos Pastor, Hartmut Peters, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Joaquín Salvador, Ricardo F Sánchez-Leal
Progress in Oceanography, 157, 47-71, 2017.

The Bransfield gravity current
Pablo Sangrà, Alexander Stegner, Mónica Hernández-Arencibia, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Carolina Salinas, Borja Aguiar-González, Cristian Henríquez-Pastene, Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 119, 1-15, 2017.

Oceanography of the Cape Verde Basin and Mauritanian Slope Waters
Pelegrí, J.L., Peña˗Izquierdo, J., Machín, F.J., Meiners, C. and Presas˗Navarro, C.
in Deep-Sea Ecosystems off Mauritania. Research of marine biodiversity and habitats in the Northwest African margin, Springer, 19-153, 2017.

Changes in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the Mauritanian–Cap Vert upwelling region between 2005 and 2012
M González-Dávila, JM. Santana-Casiano, F Machín
Biogeosciences, 14(17), 2017.

2016

Borja Aguiar-González and Theo Gerkema, 2016. Limiting amplitudes of fully nonlinear interfacial tides and solitons. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 23, 285–305. https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-285-2016.

Borja Aguiar-González, Leandro Ponsoni, Herman Ridderinkhof, Hendrik M.van Aken, Will P.M.de Ruijter, Leo R.M.Maasa, 2016. Seasonal variation of the South Indian tropical gyre. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 110, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2016.02.004.

Ponsoni, L., Aguiar-González, B., Ridderinkhof, H., Maas, L.R.M., 2016. The East Madagascar Current: Volume transport and variability based on long-term observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46 (4), pp. 1045-1065. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0154.1.

Interaction of Mediterranean Water lenses with Antarctic Intermediate Water off Northwest Africa
F. Machín, JL Pelegrí
Scientia Marina, 80(S1), 205-214, 2016.

2015

Leandro Ponsoni, Borja Aguiar-González, Janine J.Nauw, Herman Ridderinkhof, Leo R.M.Maas, 2015. First observational evidence of a North Madagascar Undercurrent. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 72, 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2015.08.002.

L.Ponsoni, B.Aguiar-González, L.R.M.Maasa, H.M.van Aken, H.Ridderinkhof, 2015. Long-term observations of the East Madagascar Undercurrent. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 100, 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2015.02.004.

Segmentation and Tracking of Anticyclonic Eddies during a Submarine Volcanic Eruption using Ocean Color Imagery.
Marcello, J., Eugenio, F., Estrada-Allis, S., and Sangrà P.
Sensors, 15 (4), 8732-8748, 2015.

Water mass pathways to the North Atlantic oxygen minimum zone
Jesús Peña‐Izquierdo, Erik van Sebille, Josep L Pelegrí, Janet Sprintall, Evan Mason, Pedro J Llanillo, Francisco Machín
Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 3350 -3372, 2015.

2014

On the temporal memory of coastal upwelling off NW Africa.
A. Benazzouz, J.L. Pelegrí, H. Demarcq. F. Machín, E. Mason, A. Orbi, J. Peña-Izquierdo, M. Soumia.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, 6356-6380, 2014.

Diapycnal nutrient fluxes on the northern boundary of Cape Ghir upwelling region
M. Arcos-Pulido, A. Rodríguez-Santana, M. Emelianov, V. Paka, J. Arístegui, M. Benavides, P. Sangrà, F. Machín, L. García-Weil, S. Estrada-Allis.
Deep-Sea Research I, 84, 100-109, 2014.

Microstructure turbulence and diffusivity parameterization in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Malaspina 2010 expedition.
B. Fernandez-Castro, B. Mourino-Carballido, V. M. Benitez-Barrios, P. Choucino, E. Fraile-Nuez, R. Grana, M. Piedeleu and A. Rodriguez-Santana.
Deep-Sea Research I, 94, 15-30, 2014.

Magma emission rates from shallow submarine eruptions using airborne termal imaging.
P. A. Hernandez, S. Calvari, A. Ramos, N. M. Perez, A. Marquez, R. Quevedo, J. Barrancos, E. Padron, G. D. Padilla, D. Lopez, A. Rodriguez Santana, G. V. Melian, S. Dionis, F. Rodriguez, D. Calvo and L. Spampinato
Remote Sensing of Environment, 154, 219-225, 2014.

Steep shelf stabilisation of the Bransfield coastal current: linear stability analysis
FJ Poulin, A Stegner, M Hernández-Arencibia, A Marrero-Díaz, P Sangrà
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44-2, 714-732, 2014.

Coupling between the upper ocean layer variability and size-fractionated phytoplankton in a non-nutrient-limited environment)
Pablo Sangrà, Cristina García-Muñoz, Carlos M. García, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Luis M. Lubián, Cristina Sobrino, Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, Borja Aguiar-González, Cristian Henríquez-Pastene, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Luis M. Lubián, Mónica Hernández-Arencibia, Santiago Hernández-León, Elsa Vázquez, Sheila N. Estrada-Allis
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 449, 35-46, 2014.

2013

Turbulence as a driver for vertical plankton distribution in the subsurface upper ocean
Macías, D., Rodríguez-Santana, A., Ramírez-Romero, E., Bruno, M., Pelegrí, J. L., Sangrà, P., Aguiar-González, B., García, C.M.
Scientia Marina, 77 (4), 541-549, 2013.

A mesoscale study of phytoplankton assemblages around the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
Cristina García-Muñoz, Luis M. Lubián, Carlos M. García, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Pablo Sangrà, Maria Vernet
Polar Biology, 62-9, 1287-1310, 2013.

Lagrangian transport pathways in the northeast Atlantic and their environmental impact.
Sala I., Caldeira, R., Estrada-Allis, S., Froufe, E., Couvelard, X.
Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments, 3, 40-60, 2013.

2012

Borja Aguiar-González, Ted T. Packard, Elisa Berdalet, Sylvie Roy, May Gómez, 2012. Respiration predicted from an Enzyme Kinetic Model and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology in two species of marine bacteria. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Volume 412, 31 January 2012, Pages 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2011.09.018.

Meridional changes in water mass distributions off NW Africa during November 2007/2008.
Pastor, M. V.; Pena-Izquierdo, J.; Pelegri, J. L.; Marrero-Diaz, A.;
Ciencias Marinas, 38(1B), 223-244, 2012.

Meridional and zonal changes in water properties along the continental slope off central and northen Chile.
P.J. Llanillo, J.L. Pelegrí, C.M. Duarte, M. Emelianov, M. Gasser, J. Gourrion and A. Rodríguez-Santana.
Ciencias Marinas, 38(1B), 307, 332, 2012.

The submarine volcano eruption at the island of El Hierro: physical-chemical perturbation and biological response.
E. Fraile-Nuez, M. González-Dávila, J.M. Santana-Casiano, J. Arístegui, I.J. Alonso-González, S. Hernández-León, M.J. Blanco, A. Rodríguez-Santana, A. Hernández-Guerra, M.D. Gelado-Caballero, F. Eugenio, J. Marcello, D. de Armas, J.F. Domínguez-Yanes, M.F. Montero, D.R. Laetsch, P. Vélez-Belchí, A. Ramos, A.V. Ariza, I. Comas-Rodríguez and V.M. Benítez-Barrios.
Scientific Reports, 2, 486, 2012.

Eastern boundary drainage of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre
I. Laiz, J.L. Pelegrí, F. Machín, P. Sangrà, A. Hernández-Guerra, A. Marrero-Díaz, and A. Rodríguez-Santana.
Ocean Dynamics, 62, 1287-1310, 2012.

2011

Diurnal-inertial motions and diapycnal mixing on the Portuguese shelf
B. Aguiar-González, A. Rodríguez-Santana, J. Cisneros-Aguirre y A. Martínez-Marrero
Continental Shelf Research, 31, 1193-1201, 2011.

The Bransfield Current System
Pablo Sangrà, Carmen Gordo, Mónica Hernández-Arencibia, Ángeles Marrero-Díaz, Ángel Rodríguez-Santana, Alexandre Stegner, Antonio Martínez-Marrero, Josep L. Pelegrí, Thierry Pichon
Deep-Sea Research I, 58, 390-402, 2011.

Monitoring and forecasting ocean dynamics at a regional scale    
Luísa Bastos, Machiel Bos, Rui Caldeira, Xavier Couvelard, Sheila Estrada-Allis, Ana Bio, Isabel Aráujo, Joana Fernandes and Clara Lázaro.
Discussion Papers Nº 8, CIEO-Research Center for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, 99-105, 2011.

A new view of the Bransfield Current: a study through rotating laboratory experiments
Mónica Hernández-Arencibia, Alexander Stegner , Ángeles Marrero-Díaz , Pablo Sangrà , Borja Aguiar-González , and Carolina Salinas
Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13,EGU2011-13523, 2011.

Sensitivity analisys of a model of lithospheric flexure: A case study of the flexure effect of Tenerife island on Gran Canaria island in the last 4 ma
Flora Andres-Araujo, Angel Rodríguez-Santana, Anaqua Gonzalez, Claudio Moreno, Francisco J. Pérez-Torrado, Francisco Santana y Tim A. Minshull
Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13, 13153-13153, 2011.