CSE Community Seminar
May 9, 2025, 12-1PM
Conference Room 45-432 in Building 45
From small-scale ocean turbulence to global climate models and back again
Abigail Bodner
Assistant Professor
Departments of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), MIT
Abstract:
Climate simulations and future climate change projections are notoriously sensitive to unresolved physics involving complex air-sea interactions. This is particularly important in the ocean mixed layer, where small-scale mixing and turbulence modulate the transfer of properties – such as heat, momentum, and carbon – between the atmosphere and ocean interior. These processes are on scales much smaller than the grid used in climate models, even at the highest possible resolution. In this talk, I will present my work towards a comprehensive understanding of multi-scale turbulent interactions in the ocean mixed layer. I will discuss insights learned from a combination of theory, numerical simulations, observations, and data-driven methods, in an attempt to isolate individual processes and improve their unresolved physical effects in climate models.
May 9, 2025, CSE Community Seminar
Abigail Bodner
Assistant Professor
Departments of EAPS and EECS, MIT