Modeling Artificial Upwelling

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• Modeling Artificial Upwelling
• Gérard Nihous
• Dept. of Ocean and Resources Engineering

• Publications
• Nihous, G.C., Near-field Evaluation of
  Artificial Upwelling Concepts for Open-ocean
  Oligotrophic Conditions, Journal of Marine
  Environmental Engineering, 8(3), 225-246, 2006.
• Nihous, G.C., Far-field Evaluation of a
  Lagrangian Artificial Upwelling Concept, Journal
  of Marine Environmental Engineering, 9, 17-34,
  2008.
• Nihous, G.C., Assessment of the evolution of
  water-column stratification following the
  hypothetical implementation of widespread
  controlled upwelling in the North Pacific
  Subtropical Gyre, Journal of Marine
  Environmental Engineering, in press, 2011.
• UH Seminar Artificial Upwelling Myth or
  Promise? (HNEI, 02/2007 ORE, 11/2008)
• Grants
• HI-NMREC ( 150 K, 3 years up to 09/2012)
• Lockheed-Martin Corp. (150 K in 2011)

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LMC Project Modeling Strategy

• Outer domain HYCOM NCODA at a resolution of
  1/12 (eddy-resolving) with 32 vertical levels.
• Intermediate domain IPRCs nested
  high-resolution (0.04) Hawaii HYCOM.
• Inner domain MITgcm (0.01 resolution with 50
  vertical levels).
• Near-field Jirkas 6-parameter (turbulence
  closure) single-plume model.

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