Welcome to the Collaborative Research Center TRR 181 ”Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean“
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About the project
Energy does not vanish
The energy of a closed system is steady. It is not lost but rather converted into other forms, such as when kinetic energy is transferred into thermal energy or vice versa heat results in a force.
However, this fundamental principle of natural science is often still a problem for climate research. For example, in case of the calculation of ocean currents, where small-scale vortices as well as mixing processes they induce need to be considered, without fully understanding where the energy for their creation originates from. This is similar in the atmosphere, the only difference being that air is moving instead of water. Again, local turbulences can drive larger movements or vice versa waves on a larger scale can disintegrate into small structures.
All these processes are important for the Earth’s climate and determine how temperatures will rise in the future.
Existing climate models still show energetic and mathematical inconsistencies even with the current progress that has been made. This can lead to fundamental errors with climate forecasts. Now ist the right time to combine recent efforts in the different
News
New publication by our PIs Richard Blender and Gualtiero Badin
Our PIs Richard Blender and Gualtiero Badin published a new paper in the journal "Fluids" titled: "Construction of Hamiltonian and Nambu Forms for the Shallow Water Equations". more ›
Balancing family and career: Home office equipment and student assistant hours for academics with family commitments
We just opened our internal call regarding the purchase of home office equipment and student assistant hours for academics with family commitments in the TRR 181! Deadline is June 6, 2017. more ›
New publication by our PIs Dirk Olbers and Carsten Eden
Our PI Dirk Olbers and our speaker Carsten Eden published a new paper in the "Journal of Physical Oceanography" titled: "A closure for internal wave-mean flow interaction. Part A: Energy conversion". more ›
Upcoming Events
Schülerkongress "MeerKlima entdecken"
Der Kongress zum Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 Meere und Ozeane wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördert und soll Schülerinnen und Schüler ab der 10. Klasse für die Fragestellungen rund um das Thema Meer und Klima sensibilisieren. more ›
TRR 181 Seminar
The TRR 181 seminar is held every two weeks in the semester and as announced during semester break. The locations of the seminar changes between the three TRR181 locations, but is broadcastet online for all members of the TRR. more ›
TRR 181 Seminar
The TRR 181 seminar is held every two weeks in the semester and as announced during semester break. The locations of the seminar changes between the three TRR181 locations, but is broadcastet online for all members of the TRR. more ›
Latest Publications
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Blender, R., & Badin, G. (2017).Construction of Hamiltonian and Nambu Forms for the Shallow Water Equations. Fluids 2017, 2 (2), doi:10.3390/fluids2020024.
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Graves, T., Franzke, C. L., Watkins, N. W., Gramacy, R. B., & Tindale, E. (2017). Systematic inference of the long-range dependence and heavy-tail distribution parameters of ARFIMA models. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.
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Olbers, D., & Eden, C. (2017). A closure for internal wave-mean flow interaction. Part A: Energy conversion. Journal of Physical Oceanography, (2017).
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