Waves and turbulence are fundamental phenomena in the ocean that influence a wide range of motions from the Kolmogorov to the planetary scales. They determine how energy is transported across scales, exchanged between different energy forms, and finally dissipated. The interaction of waves and turbulence also has important implications for the transport of energy, dissolved substances and particles in physical space.
This workshop aims to bring together state-of-the-art knowledge about waves and turbulence in geophysical flows, and especially in the ocean, and address open questions in the field.
Our topics include:
- the role of surface waves in the ocean, their impact on ocean surface layer turbulence and mixing, and their effect for atmosphere-ocean exchange;
- the role of internal waves, their generation and propagation through the ocean, their interactions other waves, mesoscale and submesoscale motions and with topography;
- their instability and dissipation;
- the role and impact of Rossby waves and their interactions with internal waves
Tidal waves are the main source of energy in estuaries and shelf seas and strongly contribute to internal wave generation on all ocean scales.
We invite contributions that investigate these processes in the field, in laboratory, in numerical simulations, and in theory.
For the WTD 2025, we are also planning a special focus on the modeling of non-local effects in turbulent flows to provide a compact forum for the discussion of this emerging topic.
Invited speakers:
Nicole Jones (School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia)
Ruth Musgrave (Department of Oceanography, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada)
Pascale Lelong (NorthWest Research Associates, Seattle, WA, USA)
Eric D’Asaro (Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Maarten Buijsman (Department of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Kiln, MS, USA)
