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15 Apr 2021
Development and technical paper |
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Towards multiscale modeling of ocean surface turbulent mixing using coupled MPAS-Ocean v6.3 and PALM v5.0
Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Luke Van Roekel
Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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Short summary
Physical processes in the ocean span multiple spatial and temporal scales. Simultaneously resolving all these in a simulation is computationally challenging. Here we develop a more efficient technique to better study the interactions across scales, particularly focusing on the ocean surface turbulent mixing, by coupling a global ocean circulation model MPAS-Ocean and a large eddy simulation model PALM. The latter is customized and ported on a GPU to further accelerate the computation.
Physical processes in the ocean span multiple spatial and temporal scales. Simultaneously...
