Modeling the Ocean Energetics Through Horizontal Convection

Varvara Zemskova, Ohio Supercomputer Center

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The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) distributes heat and nutrients crucial to biological activity throughout the global ocean, and it is important to understand its mechanism and sensitivities to changing global conditions. Zemskova’s research focuses on understanding the energetics of the MOC. Previously she applied a framework for calculating various terms in the ocean energy cycle to observational data and the general circulation model. Using Blue Waters, she will apply the same framework to horizontal convection, fluid flow forced by differential surface buoyancy forcing that often is studied as a simplified model of the MOC.