This $313,825 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research into submesoscale instabilities and energy cascades in seamount wakes. The University of Maryland, College Park will use large eddy simulations and Reynolds-averaged modeling to investigate how submesoscale processes impact dissipation, mixing, and the representation of seamount energetics in climate models. Specifically, the awardee will examine the forward energy cascade in turbulent wakes, parameter dependence of energy flux, and secondary instabilities mediating turbulence transition. Results will inform improved approximations of small-scale impacts in global simulations. Funding from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2025 supports a postdoctoral researcher conducting the numerical simulations using open-source ocean modeling tools to promote reproducibility.
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