Matthew Mazloff

Interests

Producing and analyzing estimates of the ocean state

Biography

Matthew Mazloff has been producing and analyzing a Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE) for over 6 years. This observation–model synthesis is distributed via server (sose.ucsd.edu) and has a large international user community. Research using the SOSE has spanned a broad range of topics including papers on air-sea heat fluxes, the carbon cycle, the ocean circulation, and the dynamical balances governing this circulation. The SOSE effort contributes to ongoing development of the 4D-Var assimilating version of the MIT general circulation ocean and sea-ice model.

Mazloff will lead the data assimilation component of the SOCCOM research program. Mazloff is developing a state estimate of the California Current System (CCS) that includes biogeochemistry as part of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System effort. Using knowledge gained from this CCS state estimate, C-SOBOM biogeochemistry observations will be assimilated into the SOSE. The goal will be to maximize the information content of individual SOCCOM observations by synthesizing them with a general circulation model and developing a best estimate of the current state, including biogeochemistry, of the Southern Ocean.