The oceanic energy cascade to the submesoscale

洋流和大气风在本质上是交织在一起的，对浮游生物群落有很强的影响。在全球范围内，风驱动着海洋的环流，为它提供了非常大的长度尺度（大约1000公里）的能量。然后这种能量级联到越来越小的长度尺度，直到最终消散。海洋在如此广阔的尺度范围内传递能量的机制在光谱的两端得到了很好的理解：运动接近二维的大尺度和运动完全三维的小尺度。在这两者之间，准三维的中间尺度更为复杂，目前还没有得到很好的理解。这个研究项目旨在帮助我们理解海洋中的能量是如何级联到这些中间尺度的。

Ocean currents and atmospheric winds are inherently intertwined and have a strong impact on planktonic communities. Across the globe, winds drive the general circulation of the ocean providing it with energy on very large length-scales (on the order of 1000 km). This energy then cascades down to smaller and smaller length scales until it eventually dissipates. The mechanisms through which the ocean transfers energy through this vast range of scales are well understood at the two ends of the spectrum: the large scales where the motion is nearly two-dimensional and the small scale where the motion is fully three-dimensional. In-between the two, the intermediate scales, which are quasi-three dimensional, are more complex and not yet well understood. This research program aims to contribute to our understanding of how the energy in the ocean cascades down to these intermediate scales.