Project Grant N000142112740

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $663,712 Project Grant to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This grant will fund a 3-year collaborative research project to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The project will conduct controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.050 - Geosciences program provides $181,787 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study the role of wind and waves in mixing the upper ocean. The 3-year project, effective July 1, 2024, will carry out simulations with laboratory experiments and computer models to test the hypothesis that coupling currents and waves is necessary to reliably represent the deepening of the ocean surface layer. The research aims...

This three-year, $358,347 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to determine the role of ocean dynamics in Atlantic sea surface temperature variations using coupled climate models. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will lead a collaborative effort to develop a hierarchy of coupled climate models within the Community Earth System Model version 2 platform. Comparisons between model pairs that disable specific oceanic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York a $652,118 Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to evaluate and parameterize wind stress over ocean surface waves using integrated high-resolution imaging and numerical simulations. The key goals are to: (1) investigate the variability of wind stress and its partitioning over ocean...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to investigate the interactions between internal waves and submesoscale currents in the ocean's bottom boundary layer. The total award is $418,382 over a period of 3 years, from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The research will combine theoretical concepts, analyses of existing measurements, and computer modeling to assess how these wave-current interactions affect mixing and...

This two-year, $159,271 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs will support research into microstructure observations of vertical mixing and heat fluxes in the Arctic Ocean. Funded through the NSF's Polar Programs CFDA 47.078, which supports basic research in the polar regions, this award will analyze an existing dataset of 264 shipboard turbulence profiles collected on two Arctic Observing Network cruises. Researchers at the Scripps Institution of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant awarded to the Planetary Science Institute will study the global distribution of two key ocean properties related to wind-driven energy - transmissivity (the fraction of wind energy that propagates into the ocean interior) and mixing efficiency (the portion of energy that goes into mixing versus dissipation). The $242,731 award, funded through NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will leverage a high-resolution numerical model to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences provides $757,404 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support collaborative experimental and numerical studies of the effects of wind, wave scale, and salinity on bubble entrainment by breaking waves. Researchers will leverage the Scripps Ocean-Atmosphere Research...

This $686,707 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research into the evolution of water mass transformation and overturning in the western Nordic Seas amid climate change. Over three years, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will apply theoretical modeling, high-resolution coupled ocean-atmosphere-ice modeling using the SKRIPS system, and analysis of observational data from the Resilient Northern Overturning in a Warming Climate...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant awarded to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) aims to advance the understanding of air-sea interactions and wind stress over ocean waves. The $302,091 project, titled "Collaborative Research: Sea-State-Dependent Drag Parameterization Through Experiments and Data-Driven Modeling," runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027. The research integrates high-resolution laboratory measurements with numerical simulations to...