Hi. I'm MIRIAM STERL, Oceanographer.
I've always been passionate about the ocean and love studying its fascinating physics.
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Recent News
May 26, 2025
New paper out
My latest paper is now published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics! In this article, we revisit a widely used model for studying baroclinic instability as soon as bottom friction enters the scene, the instability condition changes. What comes out after many tedious calculations is a rather compact and elegant result. We explore the implications this has for the role of bottom topography. Furthermore, we discuss how instability in the model is impacted by the orientation of the different PV gradients - planetary PV, topographic PV and stretching PV (i.e.\ direction of the mean flow). The result is an overview of the two-layer model in its most general form. ...read more!
Jan 20, 2025
Research visit to Oslo
From today onwards I'll be in Oslo for 4 weeks, visiting the University of Oslo for a research stay. I've already visited this particular group at MetOs 3 times before, so it's lovely to see familiar faces again. I hope it'll be a productive and fun visit! ...read more!
Jun 4, 2024
Gordon Research Seminar
For the past year, I have worked together with some amazing people to organise the Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Ocean Mixing, which will take place in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in the coming week. We have worked hard to put together an engaging programme which will bring together the community of researchers working on any aspect of ocean mixing. Working on organising this event has been a very useful and fun experience. I am very excited to finally have the seminar and conference take place and look forward to meeting everyone. ...read more!
Mar 22, 2024
WomenNetPhysics
For the last few months I've been part of the organising team of WomenNetPhysics, a networking conference to empower and connect women+ in the field of physics in the Netherlands. ...read more!
