Research Website: http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~jen
I study small-scale dynamical processes in the ocean, primarily internal waves and turbulence. My main interests lie in integrating ocean observations, process studies and numerical simulations to understand the dynamics of high-frequency ocean processes and their relationship to lower-frequency global phenomena. Recently I have been involved both with numerical process studies of nonlinear interactions between internal waves and with ocean-going observations of internal-wave driven turbulent mixing. Simultaneously, I am working with collaborators to use numerical and observational results to develop analytical parameterizations of turbulent diffusivity for use in large-scale numerical models. As an example of the later, I'm leading a Climate Process Team (look here) developing new parameterizations of internal-wave driven mixing for use in global climate models.