[GTP] Reminder GTP MMM seminar--Jun-Hong Liang-Correction

[Silvia Gentile]

Dear All,


The meeting is tomorrow November 11 and not today as I indicated.

Silvia Gentile

Silvia Gentile wrote:
> Modeling the Bubbly Ocean
> Jun-Hong Liang
> University of California – Los Angeles
> Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> Los Angeles, CA
>
> Gas bubbles are ubiquitous in the surface ocean boundary layer (OBL). 
> After their injection by breaking surface gravity waves, gas bubbles 
> are transported by turbulent water flows, rise by buoyancy, change 
> size, and exchange gases with the ambient water. They modify the 
> acoustical and optical properties of the upper ocean, enhance upper 
> ocean stratification, and provide an important pathway for gas 
> exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean. I will present a 
> coupled OBL-Bubble-Dissolved-Gas model that resolves the bubble 
> behavior and bubble impacts on upper ocean dynamics and dissolved 
> gases. The model is used to simulate bubbles and dissolved gases (1) 
> for a bubble cloud in an idealized down welling current, (2) for an 
> individual breaking wave in a laboratory flume, and (3) in a turbulent 
> OBL with breaking waves. As a result of bubble injection and 
> evolution, the gas exchange rate is elevated, and the equilibrium gas 
> saturation level is enhanced.
>
> Thursday, 11 November 2010, 3:30 PM
> Refreshments 3:15 PM
> NCAR-Foothills Laboratory
> 3450 Mitchell Lane
> Bldg 2 Auditorium, Room 1022
>

-- 
Silvia Gentile
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