CAREER: Investigating Ice Shelf - Ocean Interaction Using Numerical and Physical Laboratory Techniques

该奖项是根据学院早期职业发展计划(Career)颁发的，该计划旨在提供足够水平的稳定支持，以实现该计划的教育和研究职业发展目标。该奖项的研究目的是增进我们对海洋和极地冰架之间动力和热力学相互作用的数值模拟的理解。教育的目标是有效地交流地球物理流体动力学的基本原理，并发现复杂的极地环境问题的新解决方案和解决技术。漂浮的南极冰架是由大陆上的冰流提供的，迟早会破裂和融化。它是全球水文循环的一部分，可以对海平面的长期上升产生重大影响，通过在海洋表面引入淡水，可以稳定上层海洋，减少水团的垂直交换。这些过程正开始在数值模式中进行模拟，并将随着这项工作的开展而得到扩展和改进。预计的结果是一个更现实的、基于物理的和经过观测验证的数值模型，它忠实地描述冰架和海洋系统的基本控制和交互反馈。教育目标将通过在一个新的大气/海洋研究中心的几门课程中引入计算学习模块和实验室实验来实现，该中心是库兰特研究所和纽约大学的正式合作成果。这个项目将使学生能够接触到基于观测和理论建立的冰-海洋相互作用的计算机和物理实验室模型，以便让他们更深入地了解真实的地球物理流体动力学流动的性质。

This award is being made under the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) which is intended to provide stable support at a sufficient level to allow the achievement of education and research career development objectives of the program. The research objective of this award is to advance our understanding of the numerical simulation of the dynamic and thermodynamic interactions between the ocean and polar ice shelves. The educational objective is to communicate effectively the fundamental principles of geophysical fluid dynamics, and to discover new solutions and solution techniques to complex polar environmental problems.Floating antarctic ice shelves are fed by the flow of ice from the continent, and sooner or later break up and melt. It is a part of the global hydrological cycle that can have a significant effect on long-term sea level rise, and by introducing fresh water at the ocean surface, can stabilize the upper ocean and reduce the vertical exchange of water masses. These processes are beginning to be simulated in numerical models and will be extended and improved with this work. The expected result is a more realistic, physically based and observationally validated numerical model that faithfully describes the fundamental controls and interactive feedbacks of the ice shelf and ocean system.The educational goals will be met through the introduction of computational learning modules and laboratory experiments to several courses in a new Center for Atmosphere/Ocean Studies, formalized as a joint effort between the Courant Institute and New York University. This project will make observationally based and theoretically founded computer and physical laboratory models of ice-ocean interaction accessible to students in order to provide them with a deeper insight into the nature of real geophysical fluid dynamical flows.