Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2002/00446
Circulation, overflows and convection in the Nordic Seas studied using tracers and models.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor A Watson, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor D Stevens, University of East Anglia, Mathematics
- Grant held at:
- University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Earth
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Ocean Circulation
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Palaeoenvironments
- Abstract:
- We will investigate two aspects of the Nordic Seas circulation of importance to the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC): (1) Sources of water in the Greenland-Scotland overflows: recent tracer release and transient tracer observations will be used to constrain inverse models of the sources of Denmark Straits and Faroe-Bank channel overflow waters. (2) The initiation of convection and its relation to submesoscale hydrodynamics: very high-resolution non-hydrostatic models for the Central Greenland Sea will be used to model recent observations, which show convection to be intimately related to local sub-mesoscale structure.: The objective will be to develop improved descriptions of convection for use in OGCMs, to more accurately describe how the sinking branch of the MOC will be affected by changes in forcing.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2002/00446
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Rapid Climate Change
This grant award has a total value of £168,345
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £23,265 | £96,374 | £1,788 | £2,585 | £44,333 |
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