{"id":18484,"date":"2022-07-06T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=18484"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:35:19","slug":"ruan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/ruan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/earth\/files\/2022\/07\/Xiaozhou-Ruan_CV.pdf\">CV<\/a><a href=\"\/earth\/files\/2024\/07\/Ruan-Xiaozhou-2-12-24.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/earth\/files\/2022\/07\/Ruan-Xiaozhou-2-8-23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xiaozhour.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Physical Oceanography Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XiaozhouR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/earth\/files\/2019\/10\/Twitter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14661\" width=\"38\" height=\"38\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2019\/10\/Twitter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/files\/2019\/10\/Twitter-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 38px) 100vw, 38px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Research<\/h3>\n<p>I am a physical oceanographer and my research interests center on\u00a0the physics of the ocean circulation. Specifically, I seek to understand small-scale ocean dynamics and their roles in\u00a0the large-scale coastal and global ocean circulation.\u00a0These include energetic submesoscale ocean currents with a horizontal length scale of 0.1 &#8211; 10 km, boundary layers which are typically tens of meters thick and turbulent mixing events spanning centimeters to meters. I use a\u00a0combination of theoretical fluid dynamics, numerical modeling and analysis of observations to\u00a0tackle the research questions.<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>EE 107 Introduction to Climate &amp; Earth System Science<\/li>\n<li><span>EE 360 Introduction to Physical Oceanography<\/span><\/li>\n<li>EE 507 Dynamical Oceanography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10724,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20645,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18484\/revisions\/20645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}