Synte Peacock
 Assistant Professor
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.

Much of my work involves using large global ocean general circulation models to investigate the uptake and redistribution of natural and anthropogenic trace gases in the ocean. I have worked mainly with the POP and MICOM ocean models. I am also interested in glacial-interglacial CO2, interpretation of records from deep-sea sediment cores, and I also like to play with box models (which have the beautiful property of actually allowing one to understand exactly what is happening and why).

I am also a displaced rock-climber wondering why the world has suddenly gone from vertical to horizontal.




Current Projects include:

  • Online long-term (5000-year) coarse-mesh (200km av. horizontal resolution) global simulation of 21 tracers, including natural and anthropogenic CO2, natural and radioactive radiocarbon, natural and radioactive argon, CFCs, methyl chloroform, regional and global transit-time distributions. Using the POP ocean model.


  • Online short-term (50-year) high-resolution (0.4 degree x cosine(lat)) global simulation of selected regional and global TTDs, CFCs, and methyl chloroform. Using the POP ocean model.


  • Offline eddy permitting (0.225 degree x cosine(lat)) global simulation of tracers including CFCs and methyl chloroform. Using the MICOM ocean model.


  • Assessment of tracer predictability (spatial and temporal), based on the transit-time-distribution theroy.


  • A dynamic-flow box model applied to the glacial-interglacial pCO2 problem.


  • Global simulations of Methyl Chloroform in the ocean; estimation of ocean source/sink terms for atmospheric inversions. Currently simulations exist from the 2-degree global MICOM model, the POP 'x3' global model, and are underway in the 0.4-degree POP model.


  • Design of a sampling strategy for Argon-39 based on simultions with the POP ocean model.


  • Interpretation of downcore d13C and d18O records using the TTD framework.





    • Questions? Comments? Want to go climbing? Contact me!


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