Collaborative Research: Representing internal-wave driven mixing in global ocean models

这个气候过程小组的目标是制定和测试海洋内部内部波混合的参数，以便纳入最先进的耦合气候模式。内波混合被认为是控制海洋整体温盐结构的主要机制，并可能对气候变异性产生重大影响。该项目承诺减少气候预测中与气候模型无法明确解决的最小规模物理过程相关的不确定性。该项目将涉及海洋混合的三个方面：内波发生地点的近场混合、由于波场中传输的内波能量击穿而产生的混合、以及由于远离震源的内波能量击穿而产生的远场混合。参数化将基于波动物理的数据关系、辐射平衡理论和过程模型的结果。除了以合理的理论思想为基础外，参数化还将基于不断增长的微观结构观测数据集的观测结果。

The goal of this Climate Process Team is to formulate and test parameterizations for internal wave mixing in the ocean interior for inclusion in state of the art coupled climate models. Mixing by internal waves is thought to be a primary mechanism governing the overall thermohaline structure of the oceans, and may have significant implications for climate variability. The project promises to reduce the uncertainty in climate prediction associated with the smallest scale physical processes that cannot be explicitly solved by climate models. The project will address three aspects of ocean mixing: near field mixing at internal wave generation sites, mixing due to breakdown of internal wave energy transported in the wave field, and far field mixing due to breakdown of internal wave energy away from sources. Parameterizations will be based on data-based relations for wave physics, radiation balance theory, and results from process models. In addition to be being based on sound theoretical ideas, the parameterizations will also be based on observational results from the growing data set of microstructure observations.