黑料视频  Imbol Koungue, Rodrigue Anicet

Dr. Rodrigue Anicet Imbol Koungue

Imbol

RD:  Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Research Unit:  Physical Oceanography
Topic 2:  Ocean and cryosphere in climate change

Office:
Building: 5, Tower: 2
Room: 3.222
Phone: +49 431 600-4117
Email: rimbol(at)geomar.de

Address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Germany

Research interests

  • Equatorial dynamics
  • Planetary waves
  • Atlantic, Benguela and Dakar Ni帽os
  • Tropical Atlantic variability (Intraseasonal to decadal timescales)

Education and employment

2009 - 2010: B.Sc. in Physics, University of Yaound茅 I, Cameroon

2012 - 2013: M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin and University of Toulouse III 鈥� Paul Sabatier, France

2014 - 2018: PhD in Physical Oceanography, University of Cape Town and Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research, Cape Town, South Africa

Since 2018:  Postdoctoral Researcher, 黑料视频 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Grants

2012: Scholarship awarded by UNESCO to join the Master in Physical Oceanography of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin.

2022 - 2025: German research foundation (DFG Modul Eingene Stelle) grant at 黑料视频 Helmholtz centre for Ocean research Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 

  • Project acronym: ASPIRANT 
  • Project title: Assessing the present and future changes of marine climate extremes at the eastern boundary of the South Atlantic off Angola.
  • Research foci: Benguela Ni帽o, decadal variability, local and remote forcing mechanisms, climatic trends, tropical Angolan upwelling.

2024: German research foundation (DFG) grant for the research cruise (M216) with RV METEOR (22/01/2026 - 14/02/2026)

  • Project acronym: (GPF 24-1/14)
  • Project title: Boundary Circulation off Angola and Benguela Ni帽os
  • Subject area: Hydrography, mooring operations
  • Duty: Co-chief Scientist. In charge of: the mooring operations off Angola (Calibration and setting up moored intruments such Microcats, optodes, acoustic Doppler current profilers). 

Projects

2013 - 2017: Participant in the Enhancing PREdiction oF tropical Atlantic ClimatE and its impacts, ()

  • Duty: Worked in core theme 2 (CT2) focussing on the role of ocean processes in climate variability.

2018 - 2022: Participant in the Benguela Ni帽os: Physical processes and long-term variability, ()

  • Duty: Worked in subproject 1 focussing on the variability of upwelling, mixing, nutrient supply and boundary circulation off Angola.

2019 - 2023: Participant in the Tropical and South Atlantic Climate-Based marine Ecosystem prediction for sustainable management, ()

  • Duty: Worked in core theme 1 (CT1) focussing on the current state of the marine ecosystems including environmental processes and human activities.

Since 2021: Participant in the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic, ()

  • Duty: Study ocean dynamics, air-sea interactions using real-time PIRATA mooring records in the Atlantic Ocean at the equator. Attend annual meetings.

Research cruises

10/2016 - 11/2016:  with RV METEOR (tropical South Atlantic, Recife, Brazil - Walvis Bay, Namibia)

  • Duty: Participant

09/2019 - 10/2019:  with RV METEOR (equatorial and south-eastern tropical Atlantic, Walvis Bay, Namibia - Recife, Brazil)

  • Duty: Participant

06/2021 - 08/2021:  with RV SONNE (tropical Atlantic, Emden, Gernamy - Emden, Gernamy)

  • Duty: Participant

04/2022 - 05/2022:  with RV METEOR (equatorial and south-eastern tropical Atlantic, Cape Town, South Africa - Mindelo, Cape Verde)

  • Duty: Participant

04/2023 - 05/2023:  with RV METEOR (south-eastern tropical Atlantic, Walvis Bay, Namibia - Walvis Bay, Namibia)

  • Duty: Participant

02/2026 - 03/2026: 7 with RV METEOR (tropical Atlantic, Las Palmas, Spain - Walvis Bay, Namibia.)

  • Duty: Co-chief Scientist

Awards

2017:  awarded by the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences for the outstanding contribution to atmospheric and oceanic sciences in Southern Africa in 2017. (Imbol Koungue, R. A., S. Illig, and M. Rouault (2017), Role of interannual Kelvin wave propagations in the equatorial Atlantic on the Angola Benguela Current system, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, 4685-4703, )

2019: awarded by the South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences for the outstanding contribution to atmospheric and oceanic sciences in South Africa in 2019. (Rouault, M., S. Illig, J. L眉bbecke, R. A. Imbol Koungue (2018). Origin, development and demise of the 2010-2011 Benguela Ni帽o, J Mar Syst 188:39鈥�48. .)

2020: at the Nansen Tutu TRIATLAS Summer School, Cape Town, South Africa (14/01.- 21/01/2020,).

  • In Revision

    1. Rodriguez-Fonseca, B., Calvo-Migu茅lez, E., Montoya-Carramolino, L., Rodrigues, R. R., Polo, I., Martin-Rey M., Losada, T., L贸pez-Parages, J., G贸mara, I., Rivas, D., Fransner, F., Exarchou, E., Keenlyside, N., Shannon, L., Gammage, L., Ramirez, F., Artana, C., S谩nchez-Garrido, J. C., Sanchez, E., Moine, M. P., Bernardello, R., Steenbeck, J., Coll, M., Bertrand, A., Mart铆n-G贸mez, V., L眉bbecke, J.,  Araujo, M., Brandt, P., Schmidt, J., Sloterdijk, H., Angelini, R., Imbol Koungue, R. A., Diouf, K., Koseki, S., McDonagh, E., Mohino, E., Muelbert, J., Ndoye, S., Nnamchi, H., Ramanantsoa, J.,Rouault, M., Schwamborn, R., Fock, H., Ostrowski, M., Gaye, A. T., Mechoso, C., McPhaden, M., Cai, W. ENSO Impact on marine ecosystems and fisheries in the tropical and South Atlantic (in revision in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment).

    2. Prigent, A., Richter. I., Storto, A., Farneti, R., Imbol Koungue, R. A., Okumura, M. Y., Chang, P. Intercomparison of Ocean Reanalyses for Interannual Ocean Temperature Variability in the Tropical Atlantic (in revision in Climate dynamics).

    Conference proceedings

    1. Rouault, M., L眉bbecke. J., Illig. S., Imbol Koungue, R. A. (2015). Origin, development and demise of the 2010-2011 Benguela Ni帽o. Peer review abstracts, pp 14-16, 31st Annual Conference of the South African Society for Atmospheric Science, Pretoria, 21 22 September 2015, pp 60-63 .
    2. Imbol Koungue. R. A., and L眉bbecke, J. (2020). Benguela Ni帽os. Peer review abstracts, pp 30-32, Nansen Tutu Center 10th anniversary symposium: Ocean, weather and climate, science to the service of society, Cape Town, 10-12 March 2020, .

    Other publications

    1. Imbol Koungue, R. A., S. Illig, and M. Rouault (2017), Role of interannual Kelvin wave propagations in the equatorial Atlantic on the Angola Benguela Current system, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans., 122, 4685-4703,

    2. Rouault, M., Illig, S., L眉bbecke, J.F., Imbol Koungue, R. A. (2018). Origin, development and demise of the 2010-2011 Benguela Ni帽o, Journal of Marine Systems 188:39鈥�48.