Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Schleswig-Holstein (DEF) · Germany
ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Feedbacks On eXtreme STorms by Ocean tuRbulent Mixing
I propose to use autonomous underwater ocean glider vehicles with a newly developed airborne deployment system to measure ocean turbulence in extreme storms, such as hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms. These will be the first vertically resolved measurements of ocean turbulence in extreme storms, and will lead to a new understanding and improved estimates of the ocean mixing that is responsible for setting upper ocean temperatures - a crucial and poorly constrained feedback on storm intensity. By combining the observations with turbulence-resolving large eddy simulations, performed on high performance computational clusters, a new observationally-constrained model of the ocean-storm…
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