U.S.-Mexico Program: Deep Ocean Basin Circulation

小行星9724825 这个美洲计划奖将资助一个合作研究项目之间的博士约翰A。怀特黑德，伍兹霍尔海洋研究所，马萨诸塞州，和谢尔盖N。 Bulgakov，墨西哥瓜达拉哈拉大学，进行实验室实验，将进一步阐明深海环流。 研究人员将检查通过使旋转的水圆柱沿着顶部、侧面和底部边界经受不同温度而驱动的流动，以表征所产生的流动的长度和速度尺度。 实验结果与理论的比较将在广泛的参数范围内进行，包括简单的线性理论，数值模型，以及在日本海进行的环流测量。 该项目的动机是Bulgakov博士的论文工作，已经从早期的实验中产生了令人鼓舞的结果。 Whitehead博士是将实验结果应用于真实的海洋和地球物理问题的领导者，与他的合作有可能为一些重要的地球物理问题提供重要的见解。 ***

9724825 Whitehead This Americas Program award will fund a collaborative research project between Dr. John A. Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, and Dr. Sergey N. Bulgakov, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, to conduct laboratory experiments that will shed further light on deep ocean circulation. The investigators will examine the flow driven by subjecting rotating cylinders of water to different temperatures along the top, side and bottom boundaries, in order to characterize length and velocity scales of the resulting flow. Comparison of the experimental results with theory will be made over a wide range of parameters, including simple linear theories, numerical models, and measurements of circulation being done in the Sea of Japan. The project, motivated by the thesis work of Dr. Bulgakov, has already produced encouraging results from earlier experiments. The collaboration with Dr. Whitehead, a leader in applying experimental results to real oceanographic and geophysical problems, has the potential to provide significant insight on a number of important geophysical issues. ***