Submesoscale fronts and mixed layer eddies

Multiscale ocean & atmosphere dynamics

GPU-accelerated simulations of fronts, instabilities, and restratification of the upper ocean.

Mixed layer eddies arising from baroclinic instability of fronts convert horizontal buoyancy gradients into vertical stratification. Using high-performance, GPU-accelerated models, I study these submesoscale processes and how well coarse-resolution parameterizations capture them.

The code for the simulations and analyses is available on GitHub.