
Member Since 2015
Ian Grooms
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
President-Elect, Nonlinear Geophysics Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council; Associate Editor, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Professional Experience
University of Colorado Boulder
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Assistant Professor
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Doctorate
2011
Honors & Awards
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Received December 2011
Ian Grooms has been awarded the AGU Donald L. Turcotte Award, given annually to recent Ph.D. recipients for outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to the field of nonlinear geophysics. Grooms’s thesis is entitled “Asymptotic and ...
Ian Grooms has been awarded the AGU Donald L. Turcotte Award, given annually to recent Ph.D. recipients for outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to the field of nonlinear geophysics. Grooms’s thesis is entitled “Asymptotic and numerical methods for rapidly rotating buoyant flow.” He presented an invited talk and was formally presented with the award at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, held 5–9 December in San Francisco, Calif.
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Grooms received his B.S. in mathematics from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 2005. He received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2011 under the supervision of Keith Julien at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include asymptotic and numerical methods for multiscale problems in geophysical fluid dynamics.
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The Averaged Hydrostatic Boussinesq Ocean Equations in Generalized Vertical Coordinates
Due to their limited resolution, numerical ocean models need to be interpreted as representing filtered or averaged equations. How to interpret mod...
December 17, 2024

Comparing Two Parameterizations for the Restratification Eff...
December 11, 2023

Diffusion‐Based Smoothers for Spatial Filtering of Gridded G...
September 12, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Investigating the Seasonality of the Ocean's Inverse Kinetic Energy Cascade using a Quasigeostrophic Model with Time-Dependent Stratification
AGU 2024
nonlinear geophysics | 12 december 2024
Houssam Yassin, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Ian Grooms
Upper ocean submesoscale dynamics (with horizontal length scales between 1-100 km) are largely unresolved by climate models. These small-scale current...
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Re-Energizing Ocean Mesoscale Eddies: Assessing Backscatter Parameterizations for Global Ocean Models
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Houssam Yassin, Gustavo M. Marques, Ian Grooms
Course resolution ocean models (e.g., at ~1 degree) are unable resolve mesoscale eddies over most of the ocean. To compensate for this limitation, an ...
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A non-Gaussian, Two-Step, Ensemble Data Assimilation Method for Sea Ice
AGU 2024
nonlinear geophysics | 09 december 2024
Kate Boden, Ian Grooms
The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) is a powerful tool in the geosciences to integrate real-time observations into dynamical models for an improved esti...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2027
Associate Editor
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
2025 - 2026
President-Elect
Nonlinear Geophysics Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President-Elect
Council
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