Project Grant N629092312108

This $339,994 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to advance the fundamental theoretical understanding of wave turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans. The award to New York University (NYU) will fund a multi-pronged effort combining theory and numerical modeling in three key areas: 1) investigating how broadband wave spectra can emerge from monochromatic wave sources through interactions with mean...

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $458,858 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW PATHWAYS TO ENHANCED TURBULENCE AND MIXING VIA KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY TUBE AND KNOT DYNAMICS." The three-year award beginning November 1, 2021 will fund basic research into atmospheric dynamics and turbulence under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050)....

This three-year, $473,907 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences will support research into quantifying the exchange processes between the ocean surface boundary layer and interior at submesoscales. Submesoscale interactions between currents, waves, and turbulence can significantly impact biogeochemistry and climate through entrainment and subduction of tracers between layers. The awardee, Brown University, will conduct numerical simulations and develop new...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $489,375 supports the development and validation of an in-situ particle tracking velocimetry system for ocean turbulence measurement by Stanford University from August 2022 through July 2025. The award advances the Geosciences program's goal of expanding fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grantee will bridge current gaps in understanding...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $438,734, supports a collaborative research effort to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface caused by waves and wind. The research will be conducted through a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations, with the goal of improving the representation of the ocean surface boundary layer in Earth-system models....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a next-generation in-situ instrument for measuring the volume scattering function and degree of linear polarization of light in the ocean. The $847,482 award to Florida Atlantic University aims to provide a powerful new tool for studying particle composition and refining optical-biogeochemical proxies. The instrument will cover a wide range of scattering angles,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award for $1,195,922 will support the University of Washington's research project, "Exploration of Anisotropy and Inhomogeneity of Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence." The project aims to provide the first direct observational study of the anisotropy and inhomogeneity of ocean surface boundary layer turbulence using custom-built acoustic instruments that drift with the water flow. The observations...

This $388,536 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports fundamental research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to study the propagation of randomness in nonlinear wave phenomena. The key objectives of the 3-year project are to: Analyze the long-term dynamics and stability of dispersive flows from a probabilistic perspective in energy subcritical regimes....

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $168,087 will support research into nonlinear wave models in bounded domains. The principal investigator and their team at the University of Kansas Center for Research will develop a methodology for analyzing the behavior of dispersive equations modeling optical and water wave phenomena in confined regions. They will provide tools to understand novel behaviors and design physical and numerical experiments. Three research components are...

This National Science Foundation project grant totaling $539,588 will support research by Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. to model new Kelvin-Helmholtz instability dynamics and their impacts on turbulence and mixing in the middle atmosphere. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the awardee will utilize high-resolution modeling and observational data to identify "tube and knot" instability processes thought to enhance eddy diffusion and constituent...