Quantifying and parameterising ocean mixing

该项目旨在提高我们描述海洋混合效率和强度的能力。 该项目将开发和应用创新技术，通过传统的船基垂直剖面湍流测量和自主系泊来估计海洋混合情况。该项目将对历史测量进行重新分析，并使用自主系统获得新的测量结果。结果将被用来开发一个通用的关系，描述海洋混合的效率，并量化控制混合强度的基本长度尺度。 这将有助于开发描述海洋环流和搅动所需的下一代湍流闭合模型。

This project aims to advance our ability to describe the efficiency and intensity of ocean mixing. The project will develop and apply innovative techniques to estimate ocean mixing from both traditional ship-based, vertical-profiling turbulence measurements and from autonomous moorings. The project will undertake a re-analysis of historic measurements and obtain new measurements using autonomous systems. The results will be used to develop both a universal relationship describing the efficiency of ocean mixing, and to quantify the underlying length scale controlling mixing intensity. This will enable the development of the next generation of turbulence closure models needed to describe ocean circulation and stirring.