Physical Oceanography

这项研究计划旨在了解海洋环流中多尺度流动结构之间的相互作用，以及最终耗散环流能量并驱动不可逆混合的小尺度海洋湍流。创新是通过采用最先进的海洋观测技术实现的，特别是配备了湍流传感仪器的潜水式无人机平台，对海洋状态进行高分辨率、长时间、多尺度的观测。了解这些过程对于我们理解海洋是如何工作的至关重要，也是改进海洋模型的关键，因为海洋模型不能明确地解决所有相关的尺度及其物理问题。

This research program aims to understand the interactions between multi-scale flow structures in the ocean circulation, as well as small-scale ocean turbulence that ultimately dissipates the circulations energy and drives irreversible mixing. Innovation is achieved by employing state of the art ocean observing technology, specifically submersible, drone-like platforms equipped with turbulence-sensing instrumentation, to make highly-resolved, long-duration, multi-scale observations of the ocean state. Understanding these processes is central to our understanding of how the oceans work, and also critical to the improvement of ocean models which cannot explicitly resolve all of the relevant scales and their physics.