Matthew Crowe (Newcastle University) – Modelling Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics

The term 'submesoscale' refers to ocean features with a horizontal lengthscale of 100m-10km and a timescale of hours-days. This regime consists of a range of eddies, fronts and waves where the typical non-dimensional parameters of the system are all order 1. I will explain the importance and challenges of modelling submesoscale motion and present some of my work on modelling submesoscale flow features, such as ocean fronts and frontal instabilities.