Lars Umlauf

E-mail:  lars.umlauf@io-warnemuende.de
Phone: +49 (0)381 5197 223
Fax:     +49 (0)381 5197 114

Street Address:
Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)
Seestrasse 15
D-18119 Rostock-Warnemuende
Germany

 I am a physical oceanographer with a focus on regional oceanography, small-scale physics, and mixing. Presently, my favorite topics are the dynamics of rotating bottom gravity currents, and different types of boundary mixing processes including those related to internal waves.

In collaboration with other institutes, we are currently conducting a tracer release experiment in the central Baltic Sea (BaTRE), using a new type of inert tracer, SF₅CF₃, in order to study the deep water mixing in the Baltic.

In addition to observations of turbulence and mixing in the ocean, I am interested in marine turbulence modeling, and the development of turbulence models for stratified flows. Have a look at our public domain turbulence toolbox GOTM at www.gotm.net.

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