Special Research Seminar Event
For more information regarding this event, please email S.M.Rushworth@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Please join us for a special research seminar:
Title: The ocean surface boundary layer: Learning by OSMOSIS
Speaker: Professor Stephen Belcher
Chief Scientist, Met Office
Date: 14 December 2017 at 12:00
Venue: Henry Charnock Lecture Theatre, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
Abstract:
The ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) occupies the upper 100m or so of the oceans and is responsible for controlling the transport of heat and momentum from the atmosphere into the deeper ocean, and plays a major role in regulating plankton communities. Recent observations and simulations are revolutionising our picture of the OSBL, and reveal that the surface waves on the ocean surface fundamentally change the physics of the OSBL. In this lecture I shall present new observations, theory and modelling and new ideas for representing the OSBL in models, which has the potential to correct long standing biases in the climate models.