Ocean Mixing Experts head for Bangor
Experts in Ocean Mixing from across the planet are heading to the Marine Centre Wales at 天天吃瓜 for an International workshop on 鈥淥cean Mixing鈥� (11th 鈥� 13th July).
The scientists from as far afield as the US, China and Russia, as well as continental Europe and the UK, will be discussing global efforts to improve understanding of the processes which stir up the oceans and how those processes should be represented in weather and climate forecast models.
Commenting organiser Professor Tom Rippeth of the School of Ocean Sciences said:
鈥淭he oceans play a key role in the Earth鈥檚 climate system, they move heat around which gives places like the UK unusually temperate climate conditions when compared to other locations on the same latitude.
鈥淭hey are one of the main nature 鈥榮inks鈥�, as they absorb and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and so the oceans are currently working to offset the impact of man-made CO2 emissions on climate.
鈥淵et in many cases the processes responsible for stirring the ocean are poorly represented in the computer models of the ocean and climate which are used to make weather and climate change forecasts.鈥�
鈥淚n this workshop we will be hearing about world leading research in observing the oceanic turbulence which is responsible for driving the mixing, as well as discussing efforts to incorporate these processes in the computer forecast models, with the aim of improving weather and climate forecasts.鈥�
The Physical Oceanography team at the University鈥檚 School of Ocean Sciences are world leaders in the measurements of turbulence in the ocean. Their research was recently classes as having world leading impact, in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 Case Study: 鈥淭urbulence research improves ocean forecasting and marine energy infrastructure鈥�.
Publication date: 11 July 2017