WEDNESDAY 11 January 2012
3pm in the Charnock Lecture Theatre
Improved understanding of shelf sea dynamics and tidal residual circulation through combined observations and modelling: application to Liverpool Bay
Jeff Polton
NOC Liverpool
ABSTRACT
Liverpool Bay is a macro-tidal shallow sub-section of the semi-enclosed Irish Sea, where the UK National Oceanography Centre maintained a multiple platform, multidisciplinary ocean science Observatory for 10 years. Using both models and observational data we review dominant physical processes that control the shelf sea dynamical processes. We then synthesise combined model and observed physics and explore the residual circulation in more detail and build a methodology to predict the residual flow in places where there are either no observations or where the model performs poorly.