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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE140100076
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Mixing hot spots in the Southern Ocean: processes, parameterisations and climate impacts. The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the uptake of heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the deep ocean. This uptake depends strongly on mixing processes due to ocean eddies, which are especially important in regions of steep topography, leading to localised mixing hot spots. These ocean eddies have scales of 10-100km and therefore can not be resolved in current global climate models. This project will examine these mixing processes using a combination of observations and innovative modelling approaches. This knowledge will be used to improve the representation of eddy processes in state-of-the-art climate models, which will ultimately allow Australia to more effectively respond to the challenge of climate change.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funding Amount: $394,585.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Geophysics | Physical Oceanography | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | Climate Change Processes
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Marine Oceanic Processes (excl. climate related) | Climate Change Models |
