
Dr. Nora Fried
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction
Institute of Landscape Ecology
Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149 Münster
Raum 544
Telefon +49(0)251-83 30 096
E-Mail nora.fried@uni-muenster.de

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interaction
Institute of Landscape Ecology
Heisenbergstr. 2, 48149 Münster
Raum 544
Telefon +49(0)251-83 30 096
E-Mail nora.fried@uni-muenster.de
2024 (Year of completion) Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University
Dissertation title: Hidden below the surface: On the pathways, interaction and transport variability of the Irminger Current
2019 Master of Science in Climate Physics: Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
2016 Bachelor of Science in Physics of the Earth System: Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Fu, Y., Lozier, M. S., Bower, A., Burmeister, K., Carrilho Biló, T., Cyr, F., Cunnintgham, S. A., deYoung, B., Dilmahamod, A. F., de Jong, M.F., Fried, N. et al. (2025). Characterizing the interannual variability of North Atlantic subpolar overturning. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL114672. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL114672
Fried, N., Katsman, C. A., & de Jong, M. F. (2024). Where do the two cores of the Irminger current come from? A Lagrangian study using a 1/10 ocean model simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020713.
Fried, N., Biló, T. C., Johns, W., Katsman, C. A., Fogaren, K. E., Yoder, M. F., ... & de Jong, M. F. (2024). Freshening over the whole water column as a result of the 2012 subpolar freshwater anomaly increased the transport of lighter waters of the Irminger Current between 2014-2022. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(11), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021184.
Sanchez‐Franks, A., Holliday, N. P., Evans, D. G., Fried, N., Tooth, O., Chafik, L., ... & Johnson, H. L. (2024). The Irminger Gyre as a key driver of the Subpolar North Atlantic overturning. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108457.
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, 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, 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.