
DENAXA DIMITRA
Position: Technician Under Contract
Expertise: Physicist Oceanographer
Department: Marine Observatories & Operational Oceanography
Premises: athens
Born in Athens, 1985. Graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics (2011). Field: Environmental Physics and Meteorology, BSc thesis: "Weather bioclimatic classification in the greater Aegean Archipelagos". MSc in Environmental Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics (2014). MSc thesis: "Red Sea response to interannual variability of atmospheric conditions". Working as a research assistant at the Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos (2015-today). Main activities and responsibilities: - Working for the Med-waves component of the Mediterranean Monitoring and Forecasting Centre (Research projects: CMEMS MED MFC, CMEMS MED MFC II) - Satellite Sea Surface Temperature data analysis, application and evaluation of statistical-dynamical observation operator for SST data assimilation in the POSEIDON forecasting model (Research project: SOSSTA) - Supporting the POSEIDON system's helpdesk - Studying the perspectives of marine renewable energy development in the Mediterranean Sea, wind and wave data analysis (Research projects: BLUENE, ΚΑΠΕ) Publications: E. Jansen, S. Pimentel, W.-H Tse, D. Denaxa, G. Korres, I. Mirouze and A. Storto. Using canonical correlation analysis to produce dynamically based and highly efficient statistical observation operators, Ocean Sci., 15, 1023–1032, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1023-2019, 2019 S. Pimentel, S. Tse, H. Xu, D. Denaxa, E. Jansen, G. Korres, I. Mirouze and A. Storto. Modelling the Near Surface Diurnal Cycle of Sea Surface Temperature in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 124 (1), 171-183, 2019 Soukissian, T.H.; Denaxa, D.; Karathanasi, F.; Prospathopoulos, A.; Sarantakos, K.; Iona, A.; Georgantas, K.; Mavrakos, S. Marine Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Status and Perspectives. Energies 2017, 10, 1512.
Email: ddenaxa@hcmr.gr
Telephone: +30 2291076414