Powell Research Lab

Projects

PacIOOS
Daily ocean forecasting products for the islands in the Pacific.
CBIOMES
Towards better understanding and modeling of ocean biogeochemistry.
Office of Naval Research
ARCTERX: Examine the role of the sub-mesoscale in ocean predictability.
Office of Naval Research
Quantify how acoustic tomography can be used to better constrain and predict the ocean state.
NOAA OAP
Examine the impacts of climate-change induced ocean acidification around Hawaii
NOAA MAPP
Examine the impacts of climate change on fisheries around Hawaii.

Example


This is a movie of biological productivity every 3 hours for 60 days. It is the output from our coupled ROMS+DARWIN simulation at 2km horizontal resolution, with tides, and high-resolution WRF atmospheric forcing. ROMS is a complete ocean modeling software system with various methods for simulating the hydrodynamics, and DARWIN is a state-of-the-art trait-based biogeochemical model developed at MIT.