Modeling Ocean Currents
ABSTRACT: The world’s oceans cover almost three-fourths of the globe and have a major impact on global activity, like weather and climate. To better understand how weather is affected, the dynamics of the oceans themselves must be understood. Comprehension of the dynamics is being gained in part from explanatory models of the oceans and their major features, such as currents. This talk will be focused around techniques of modeling a particular current, the Gulf Stream, with one or more separate layers of water. By explaining several models, I intend to show that modeling in both physical and numerical environments are integral to our understanding of the ocean.