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- Abstract:
- Langmuir turbulence, formed when steady winds blow over the ocean, helps to mix the ocean surface layer and regulates the exchange of heat and gas with the atmosphere. Due to their size and complexity, global climate models struggle to resolve turbulence on this scale, leading to persistent uncertainties in ocean surface temperatures and the mixed layer depth. As part of the effort to reduce climate model uncertainties and better understand ocean-atmosphere dynamics, this project built and analyzed a computational model of Langmuir turbulence. Two approximations, the quasilinear and generalized quasi-linear, were compared to a fully non-linear simulation (the best representation of reality) to judge their ability to capture critical dynamics at minimal computational cost.
Citation
Hartig, Kara,
"Modeling Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer with Dedalus"
(2017).
Summer Research Symposium.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/0ndc-bg90
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Summer Research Symposium
Each year, Brown University showcases the research of its undergraduates at the Summer Research Symposium. More than half of the student-researchers are UTRA recipients, while others receive funding from a variety of Brown-administered and national programs and fellowships and go …...