Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics Virtual Seminar: Anand Gnanadesikan

Description

Anand Gnanadesikan, professor and chair of the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins, will give a talk entitled "Deep Convective Regions in the Ocean Play a Critical Role in Global Climate and Biogeochemistry" as part of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics seminar series.

Charles Meneveau, professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, will host. Please attend the event by using the Zoom link.

Abstract:

In most of the ocean, waters are stably stratified through much of the year. However in a few locations, surface waters become dense enough during the winter to generate deep convection that links the surface and deep ocean. In this talk, I'll discuss recent work in my group describing a new description of a coupled mode of variability in Southern Ocean convection as well as the impact of changes of convection on biogeochemical responses to climate change.