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SEMINAR: MPO Seminar: Dr. Romain Pennel, TODAY, at 3:00 p.m., Slab Seminar room, S/A 103

From: Sandrine Apelbaum <sapelbaum@rsmas.miami.edu>
Subject: SEMINAR: MPO Seminar: Dr. Romain Pennel, TODAY, at 3:00 p.m., Slab Seminar room, S/A 103
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:21:40 -0400

MPO Seminar


Dr. Romain Pennel

Post Doctoral Associate

MPO

 



“
Impact of the bathymetry on coastal current instabilities and eddy formation : 
from observations in the Eastern Mediterranean to idealized modelling
”


 
Room: Slab seminar room, S/A 103

Date: Wednesday, September 12, at 3:00 p.m.


abstract:

The Atlantic Water transport in the eastern Mediterranean is strongly  impacted by the dynamics of mesoscale eddies. The latter are mainly  
produced through baroclinic instability of coastal currents. These  eddies, as well as the meanders characterizing the instabilities, play  
an important part in the transport of water masses, heat, and  nutriments between the coast and the open sea. Those transfers have to  
be well represented in numerical simulations used in decision-making  processes facing socio-economic issues. Nevertheless, the impact of  
the bathymetry on the general ocean surface circulation in the  Mediterranean is still poorly understood. This work aims at  
understanding and quantifying the impact of the undersea topography on  current instabilities and on the dynamics of eddies formed alongshore.  
Observations of those features in the eastern Mediterranean, using  surface drifters and numerical simulations, confirm that they are  
ubiquitous and that they influence strongly the surface circulation.

Sandrine Apelbaum
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography 
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1098
Tel     (305) 421-4057
Fax     (305) 421-4696