Nora Fried

PhD Candidate Physical Oceanography
NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, since 2019

M.Sc. Climate Physics:
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Univeristy of Kiel, Germany, 2019

B.Sc. Physics of the Earth System
Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics
Univeristy of Kiel, Germany, 2016

PhD Project

We are studying a current in the North Atlantic which is a continuation of the warm and saline Gulf Stream. Observations in the ocean are still rare which makes a time series in remote places like the subpolar North Atlantic very valuable. Currents in the ocean are important for all of us as they impact the weather and climate. Imagine a current in the ocean as the wind in the atmosphere. It can have a stronger or weaker flow, be warmer or colder, it can stop and even reverse direction.

We use so-called ‘moorings’. They look like a necklace hanging upright in the water column with instruments attached to it, measuring temperature, salinity and velocity. With those observations we hope to get more insight into how the current is changing over time, and whether changes are an effect of climate variability or if they can be linked to climate change.

Field campaigns

  • Expedition to the Irminger Sea and Iceland Basin 2022, AR69-02, RV Neil Armstrong
    Responsibilities: mooring work, mooring instrument data recovery, CTD watch, salinometer measurements
  • Expedition to the Irminger Sea 2020, PE473, RV Pelagia
    Responsibilities: CTD watch, mooring work
    Blog
  • Expedition to the Labrador Sea 2018, MSM74, RV Maria S. Merian
    Responsibilities: salinometer measurements, CTD watch, mooring work
  • Expedition to Northern Greenland 2018, PAMARCMIP, Station North/Villum Research Station
    Responsibilities: black carbon measurements on snow, snow pit work
    National Geographic Article, New York Times Article
  • Expedition to the Labrador Sea 2016, MSM54, RV Maria S. Merian
    Responsibilities: CTD calibration, CTD watch, mooring work
  • Expedition to Tropical Atlantic, 2015 M119, RV Meteor
    Responsibilities: salinometer measurements, CTD watch, mooring work

Publications

  • Fried, N., Katsman, C. A., & de Jong, M. F. (2023), Where do the two cores of the Irminger Current come from? A Lagrangian study using a 1/10-degree ocean model simulation, under review at JGR: Oceans
  • Sanchez-Franks, A., Holliday, N. P., Evans, D. G., Fried, N., Tooth, O. J., Chafik, L., ... & Johnson, H. L. (2023). The Irminger Gyre as a key driver of the subpolar North Atlantic overturning on monthly timescales. Authorea Preprints.
  • Fu, Y., Lozier, M. S., Biló, T. C., Bower, A. S., Cunningham, S. A., Cyr, F., Fried,N. ... & Yashayaev, I. (2023). Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic. Communications earth & environment, 4(1), 181., https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00848-9
  • Desbruyères, D. G., Bravo, E. P., Thierry, V., Mercier, H., Lherminier, P., Cabanes, C., Biló, T.C., Fried, N., De Jong, M. F. (2022). Warming‐to‐cooling reversal of overflow‐derived water masses in the Irminger Sea during 2002‐2021. Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL098057. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098057
  • Fried, N., & Femke de Jong, M. (2022). The role of the Irminger Current in the Irminger Sea northward transport variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2021JC018188. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018188
  • Li, F.; Lozier, M. S.; Bacon, S.; Bower, A. S.; Cunningham, S. A.; de Jong, M. F.; deYoung, B.; Fraser, N.; Fried, N.; Han, G.; Holliday, N. P.; Holte, J.; Houpert, L.; Inall, M. E.; Johns, W. E.; Jones, S.; Johnson, C.; Karstensen, J.; Le Bras, I. A.; Lherminier, P.; Lin, X.; Mercier, H.; Oltmanns, M.; Pacini, A.; Petit, T.; Pickart, R. S.; Rayner, D.; Straneo, F.; Thierry, V.; Visbeck, M.; Yashayaev, I.; Zhou, C. (2021). Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary density anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation. Nature Comm. 12: 3002. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1038/s41467-021-23350-2
  • de Jong, M.F.; de Steur, L.; Fried, N.; Bol, R.; Kritsotalakis, S. (2020). Year‐round measurements of the Irminger Current: Variability of a two‐core current system observed in 2014–2016. JGR: Oceans 125(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016193

Recent Conferences

Invited Talks
12/2021 OOI at AGU Fall Meeting 2021, OOI and OSNAP in the North Atlantic
Oral presentations
04/2023 EGU General Assembly 2023, online, OS1.5 The North Atlantic: natural variability and global change
05/2022 EGU General Assembly 2022, in person, OS1.7 The North Atlantic: natural variability and global change, Vienna, Austria
10/2021 BBOS Autumn Symposium 2021, Soesterberg, Netherlands
04/2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, online, OS1.2 The North Atlantic: natural variability and global change
Poster presentations
11/2023 BBOS Autumn Symposium 2023, NIOZ Texel, Netherlands
07/2023 Clivar workshop on Meeting AMOC Observations need in a changing climate, Hamburg, Germany
07/2023 P05a – The Meridional Overturning, IUGG-IAPSO meeting, Berlin, Germany
10/2022 BBOS Autumn Symposium, Oranjewoud, Netherlands
02/2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting, PC24A – Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: An Ongoing Challenge lll Posters, San Diego, California, U.S.
10/2019 BBOS Autumn Symposium 2019, Den Bosch, Netherlands