{"id":218830,"date":"2025-07-27T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/mathematical-model-sheds-light-on-internal-ocean-waves-and-climate-prediction"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:07:10","slug":"mathematical-model-sheds-light-on-internal-ocean-waves-and-climate-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/mathematical-model-sheds-light-on-internal-ocean-waves-and-climate-prediction","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical model sheds light on internal ocean waves and climate prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematical-model-sheds-light-on-internal-ocean-waves-and-climate-prediction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep below the surface of the ocean, unseen waves roil and churn the water. These internal waves, traveling between water layers of different temperatures and densities, draw cold, nutrient-rich water up from the depths and play a major role in oceanic circulation. Understanding and modeling their behavior is critical for developing more accurate simulations of an increasingly unpredictable climate.<\/p>\n<p>In a <i>Nature Communications<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-51503-6\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Math Professor Yuri V. Lvov, Ph.D. and a team of oceanographers develop a first-of-its-kind model of internal wave dynamics that lays the foundation for new, more reliable models of ocean circulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternal, wave-driven, vertical mixing is believed to be a main driver of oceanic circulation,\u201d Lvov said. \u201cIt shapes Earth\u2019s climate by influencing sea level rise, nutrient fluxes, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/marine+ecosystems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">marine ecosystems<\/a>, and anthropogenic heat and carbon uptake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep below the surface of the ocean, unseen waves roil and churn the water. These internal waves, traveling between water layers of different temperatures and densities, draw cold, nutrient-rich water up from the depths and play a major role in oceanic circulation. Understanding and modeling their behavior is critical for developing more accurate simulations of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}