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Mike Gregg
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Professor, Oceanography
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Ocean Physics (OPD)
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B.S. Physics 1961, Yale University
Ph.D. Physical Oceanography 1971, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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gregg@apl.washington.edu
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206-543-1353
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The idea that the cumulative action of centimeter-scale mixing affects the ocean's largest scales guides Mike Gregg's research. Evolving technology now enables the mixing to be put into the context of the meter-to-kilometer-scale processes directly producing it, such as internal waves, bottom and surface boundary layers, thermohaline staircases and intrusions, and hydraulic responses to flow constrictions. Because large-scale models, particularly coupled climate models, have grid scales vastly larger than those of the mixing and even of the intermediate-scale processes producing it, it is a goal to always try to work toward parameterizations that can be used in these models.
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