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Amala Mahadevan

Research Associate Professor

Office: CAS 127
Phone: 617-353-5511
amala@bu.edu

Amala's Homepage
Climate - Surface Interactions Research Page

Ph.D. 1995 Stanford University
M.S. 1989 Stanford University
B.E. 1987 University of Bombay, India

Amala Mahadevan's interests are in oceanography and climate, biogeochemical cycles in the ocean – the ocean's role in the carbon cycle, air-sea interaction and gas exchange, ocean modeling, and computational mathematics. She uses modeling to investigate physical ocean processes and their implications on ocean biogeochemistry. She has developed a non-hydrostatic ocean model suited to modeling limited domains in order to capture local mesoscale and small-scale phenomena. She has worked on open boundary conditions for ocean models, frontal and mesoscale ocean processes, the large-scale distribution of radiocarbon 14C, predictability of the large-scale wind-driven circulation using singular vectors, the dynamics of the shelfbreak front and coastal flows over topography, the sea surface patchiness of various biogeochemical tracers, and mesoscale variability of sea surface pCO2. Her objective is to use data and models to discover relationships between physical processes and observed variables.

Selected Publications

Mahadevan, A., and A. Tandon. 2006. An anaysis of mechanisms for submeoscale vertical motion at fronts. Submitted to Ocean Modeling.

Mahadevan, A. 2005. Vertical motion at ocean fronts: Nonhydrostatic effects and wind. Submitted to Ocean Modeling (in revision).

LaCasce, J. and A. Mahadevan. 2005. Estimating subsurface horizontal and vertical velocities from sea surface temperature. Submitted to Journal of Marine Research.

Mahadevan, A. 2005. Spatial Heterogeneity and its relation to processes in the upper ocean, ecosystem function in heterogenous landscapes. Springer-Verlag NY , Eds. Lovett, G.M., Jones, C.G., Turner, M.G., and Weathers, K.C.

Mahadevan, A., M. Levy, and L. Memery. 2004. Meoscale Variabiligy of Sea Surface pCO2: What does it respond to?, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18 (), GB101710.1029 2003GB002102.