Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Amount

$480,000.00

Award Date

8/03/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Historically, Langmuir circulation (LC) is characterized by pairs of parallel counter-rotating vortices oriented approximately in the downwind direction driven by the wave- and wind-driver turbulence within the upper ocean mixed layer. The highly resolved