PI: Thomas Haine (Earth & Planetary Sciences, KSAS)

Co-I: Charles Meneveau (Mechanical Engineering, WSE)

Postdoc: Miguel Jimenez-Urias (Earth & Planetary Sciences, KSAS)

The overall project goal is to apply a novel numerical procedure to Direct Numerical Simulations of canonical Rotating Stratified Flows relevant to dynamical oceanography in order to reveal differential operators associated with turbulent closures. This will provide a stepping stone for the development of non-local, scale dependent turbulence closures in ocean modeling. It will provide a framework for the creation of a SciServer Database of Canonical Geophysical Flows relevant to dynamical oceanography, in similar spirit to the Johns Hopkins Turbulence Database.