I’m super proud that former graduate student, Geoff Stanley‘s outstanding sole-author paper on Neutral Surface Topology has been published in Ocean Modelling. This should redefine how we calculate neutral surfaces in the ocean. A huge bonus is that they are extremely fast to compute: 50s for the surface shown below, versus 12hrs for the equivalent omega surface (the previous gold standard).
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