[Eoas-seminar] [Seminar-announce] Joint GFDI-SC Colloquium with John Marshall

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"Numerical Exploration of the Ocean Circulation on Icy Moons"

John Marshall
Professor of Ocean and Climate Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

NOTE: Please feel free to forward/share this invitation with other groups/disciplines that might be interested in this talk/topic. All are welcome to attend.

Note: Zoom access is for non-departmental participants only.
https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552
Meeting # 942 7359 5552

🎦 Colloquium recordings will be made available here, https://www.sc.fsu.edu/colloquium
Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023, Schedule:

* 3:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
☕ Nespresso & Teatime - 417 DSL Commons

* 3:30 to 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
🕟 Colloquium - 499 DSL Seminar Room

Abstract:
Subsurface oceans on the icy moons of our Solar System, such as Enceladus and Europa, are receiving increasing attention in the search for extraterrestrial life. It is thus important to understand the dynamics of these oceans and identify circulation pathways and timescales. Here, we use numerical simulations to explore likely ocean circulations if the primary energy source is geothermal heating from below. Codes developed in Julia and deployed on GPUs are used.

We describe the phenomenology of the resulting circulation patterns as the assumed rotation rate and ocean depth is varied. Key non- dimensional numbers are identified, and used to organize our study, informing speculations about the nature of the circulation of real icy moons. Based on best estimates of controlling non-dimensional parameters, we argue that the ocean circulations on Europa and Enceladus are likely to be very strongly influenced by rotation and manifest multiple alternating bands of zonal currents flowing in opposite direction, with distinctly different tropical and extratropical regimes. The likely nature of the small-scale turbulence and convection excited by bottom heating, which energizes the zonal jets, is also described.

Additional colloquium details can be found here,
https://www.sc.fsu.edu/news-and-events/colloquium/1753-gfdi-colloquium-with-john-marshall-2023-10-18
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