ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Stormy Atmospheres over Quiescent Waters: Dynamical Implications of Fine-scale Air-Sea Interaction
The atmosphere and ocean exhibit natural fluctuations at many scales. Compellingly, their responses to each other’s cues, felt through fluxes at the interface, may be taking place at much finer scales. At the air-sea interaction (ASI) submesoscale, ranging from about 200 m to 200 km, both air and water are filled with beautiful heterogeneous structure. Unraveling how such fine-scale structure drives air-sea exchange, leading to different dynamics in both fluids, is an emerging challenge for climate science. My ambition is to expose dynamical impacts and primary mechanisms of submesoscale interaction between atmospheric moist convection and tropical quiescent waters. With QUASI, I will use…
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