This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), provides $663,712 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The 3-year project will conduct controlled laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to investigate turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface, with the goal of improving the representation of the ocean surface boundary layer in Earth system models. The award will support 4 principal investigators, 1 postdoctoral scholar, and 1 graduate student. The project aims to advance the scientific understanding of wind-driven and wave-driven near-surface turbulence and inform more reliable modeling of the ocean surface boundary layer, which could enhance the accuracy of Earth system simulations. No sub-awards are planned for this grant.
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