Ilker Fer

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Professor - Polar Climate, UiB - University of Bergen

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ilker.fer@uib.no

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Physical oceanography

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Editor, Journal of Physical Oceanography (until 2026)

Editor, Ocean Science

Research interests:
Physical oceanography, ocean mixing and water mass transformations, boundary layer processes, dense water overflows, turbulence and mixing, fine and microstructure data acquisition and interpretation, seismic reflection techniques to image oceanic finestructure, convective processes leading to dense water formation, turbulence in the under ice boundary layer, air-ice-sea interaction, internal waves, turbulence parameterizations.

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Selected publications

Merging of a mesoscale eddy into the Lofoten Vortex in the Norwegian Sea captured by an ocean glider and SWOT observations

Damerell, G. M., Bosse, A., and Fer, I.

Warm rings in mesoscale eddies in a cold straining ocean

Dong, H., Zhou, M., McWilliams, J.C. et al.

Quantifying Tidal Impacts on Arctic Sea Ice: An Unexpected Mechanism for the Regional Delay of Summer Melting,

Schulz, K., A. T. Nguyen, H. R. Pillar, T. M. Baumann, M. Muilwijk, I. Fer, I. Polyakov, L. Padman, S. L. Howard, and G. Spreen

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Publication "Warm rings in mesoscale eddies in a cold straining ocean" – Published in Nat Commun 16, 9252 (2025), 20252025Warm rings in mesoscale eddies in a cold straining oceanAuthorsDong, H., Zhou, M., McWilliams, J.C. et al.