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Postdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: A Parameterization of Tidal and Equatorial Internal Wave — NSF Award to University of California

Underwater mixing plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by distributing heat, nutrients, and dissolved gases throughout the ocean. This mixing is largely driven by the breaking of internal waves, which are generated by wind and tides. However, many ocean models cannot resolve the wave breaking that drives

Award titlePostdoctoral Fellowship: OCE-PRF: A Parameterization of Tidal and Equatorial Internal Wave
Award ID2513614
AwardeeUniversity of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanogra
CityLA JOLLA
StateCA
Amount obligated$303,179
Principal investigatorZachary Taebel
ProgramOCE Postdoctoral Fellowships
Start date09/01/2025
AbstractUnderwater mixing plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by distributing heat, nutrients, and dissolved gases throughout the ocean. This mixing is largely driven by the breaking of internal waves, which are generated by wind and tides. However, many ocean models cannot resolve the wave breaking that drives mixing and must instead rely on simplified representations called parameterizations. One such model is the Generalized Finescale Parameterization (GFP), which infers mixing rates
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