Ocean mixing processes and innovation in oceanographic models

海洋混合过程和海洋模式的创新：该奖学金项目旨在开发新的海洋学工具和热力学变量，以支持更适合预测全球变暖变化的新一代精确海洋模式。海洋在气候系统中的作用主要是储存和运输热量和二氧化碳，海洋这样做的能力对混合过程的强度很敏感，这是相当不确定的。该项目希望通过以下方式区分垂直混合和水平混合的重要作用：(i)开发算法来构建气候模型中的中性密度表面，（ii）制定新的逆技术来推断不同海洋区域的垂直混合量，以及（iii）将海洋混合过程和热力学的新方法纳入海洋模型。

Ocean mixing processes and innovation in oceanographic models: This fellowship project aims to develop new oceanographic tools and thermodynamic variables to support a new generation of accurate ocean models more suitable for the prediction of changes in a warming world. The ocean’s role in the climate system is predominantly to store and to transport heat and carbon dioxide, and the ocean’s ability to do this is sensitive to the strength of mixing processes, which are quite uncertain. This project hopes to distinguish the vital role of vertical mixing from that of horizontal mixing by (i) developing algorithms to construct neutral density surfaces in climate models, (ii) formulating new inverse techniques to deduce the amount of vertical mixing in various ocean regions, and (iii) incorporating new approaches to ocean mixing processes and thermodynamics into ocean models.