The East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR)  wishes to inform those who may be interested of a GEO@EAIFR webinar. This seminar will take place on August 5, 2025 and will be broadcast live on ZOOM. It will also be recorded and later posted on the ICTP-EAIFR YouTube channel, where one can find the previous recorded GEO@EAIFR webinars. Below all the details:

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Kiss, Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia

Title: Computational modelling of the global ocean 

When: August 5, 2025 at 12:00 pm (Kigali time).

Register in advance for this meeting by clicking here.

All are very welcome.

Abstract: 

The ocean is a vital component of the Earth's climate system, for example storing about 25% of our global CO2 emissions and over 90% of the resulting anthropogenic heat, and is therefore an essential component of realistic climate models. The ocean is of course a fluid dynamical system, but it has governing dynamics that are very different from (say) typical engineering flows, mainly due to the combined influence of density stratification and Earth's rotation. Simulating the global ocean therefore requires specialized computer models which are designed to accurately and efficiently capture the dynamics that are important to these flows. I will give a brief overview of ocean circulation and ocean dynamics, followed by a quick tour of computational ocean models and how they work, drawing on examples from global ocean model configurations developed by the Australian community.

Biography: Dr. Andrew Kiss is a Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, and leads the development of high-resolution global coupled ocean and sea ice model configurations in the Consortium for Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling in Australia. His research interests include the fluid dynamics of ocean currents, the ocean's response to forcing perturbations and the role of ocean dynamics in Earth's climate.