Completed Project: Coupled Boundary Layer – Air Sea Transfer (CBLAST) Experiment

The overall aim of the low-wind component of the Coupled Boundary Layer Air Sea Transfer project (CBLAST-Low) is to observe and investigating the processes responsible for the exchange of mass, momentum and heat between the ocean and the atmosphere under low wind conditions. The oceanic component of the study will pay particular attention to air-sea interaction and the coupling of the sub-thermocline ocean to the mixed layer. Through observational studies and employing new concepts in instrument arrays we hope to understand the physical processes that determine the horizontal, vertical and temporal variability of the mixed layer under light wind conditions on spatial scales from 1 m to 10's of km and from minutes to months. Funding for the CBLAST-Low experiment was provided by the Office of Naval Research.

Further information about CBLAST-Low experiment can be found here.