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Brian Arbic

Arbic Photo Assistant Professor, Oceanography

Rm. 222A

(850) 644-3479 phone
(850) 644-4841 fax

I am primarily interested in the dynamics and energy budgets of oceanic mesoscale eddies, the general circulation, barotropic tides, and baroclinic tides. I have focused much attention on the impacts of dissipative processes such as bottom boundary layer drag and topographic internal wave drag on both low-frequency motions and tides. I am also interested in the isotropy of ocean eddies, coherent vortices and jets, oceanic decadal variability, paleotides, and the coupling between motions in the solid earth and ocean.

Most of my research involves using numerical models (and, occasionally, analytical models). I have used idealized geostrophic turbulence models to study mesoscale eddies, and more realistic ocean models to study both tides and eddies. In more recent work, my collaborators and I have modeled tidal and non-tidal motions simultaneously, in a high-resolution global model. I make frequent use of observational data, and am especially interested in comparisons of models and data.

I am currently a faculty member in the Department of Oceanography, and an associate of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS). I try to divide my time roughly equally between both places. I am also a new hire in the FSU Extreme Events in Climate Cluster. My research adds to this cluster because I model the response of tides to changes in sea level, including extreme changes in sea level. I have collaborated and continue to collaborate with scientists from a number of institutions throughout the world, as well as with scientists from a number of different disciplines (for example, marine geophysics, geodesy, solid-earth geophysics, and glaciology, as well as physical oceanography). Currently one of my largest collaborations is with Eric Chassignet and Patrick Timko of COAPS, and several members of the HYCOM Modeling Group at the Stennis Space Center branch of the Naval Research Laboratory. Our goal is to develop a global 1/25th degree operational ocean model that simultaneously resolves tidal and non-tidal motions, for United States Navy operational purposes.

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