Welcome to the Physical Oceanography in Multiple Scales (POMS) lab website. Our research interests include:
- The Oceanic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC), aka Global Overturning Circulation (GOC), aka thermohaline circulation.
- Boundary current instability, eddy shedding, and separation;
- Mesoscale and submesoscale vortex dynamics;
- Density currents and fronts;
- Air-Sea interaction, energy dissipation and mixing near ocean fronts.
The investigated processes span the spectrum of scales between meters or less (e.g. mixing, waves, boundary layers) to the global overturning circulation in the oceans. The interactions between ocean physics at different scales and phenomena are some of our principal foci.
We employ a variety of research methods, with similar emphasis on numerical/theoretical modelling, and on marine observations/experiments. We employ numerical modeling in various levels of complexity, from idealized process models to regional or global circulaiton models. The observations we conduct are typically focused on small scale processes in the continental shelf and slope regions, and we employ and develop a variety of innovative instrumentation in elucidating the processes we observe.
RESEARCH STUDENTS(MSc/PhD)/POSTDOCS WANTED for a variety of research projects. Modeling projects include open questions on the Global Overturning Circulation, the Mediterranean Sea large-scale circulation, vortex dynamics, and internal waves. Observational projects include various aspects of density currents and submesoscale fronts and eddies, including their processes of dissipation, cross-scale fluxes, and modulation of air-sea interaction by submesoscale fronts. Please contact me at Aviv.Solodoch@mail.huji.ac.il if interested.