Luc Lenain

Luc Lenain serves as Associate Researcher and Director of the Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, affiliated with both the Marine Physical Laboratory and Climate, Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography Division.

Education:

• M.Sc.E. Geophysics and Civil Engineering, École Polytechnique Universitaire, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris
• M.Sc. Physical Ocean Sciences and Engineering, University of Delaware
• Ph.D. Physics, Paris-Saclay University (École Normale Supérieure - Saclay)

His research centers on air-sea interaction processes including air entrainment, turbulence, sea-spray fluxes, boundary layers, and wave dynamics. He develops specialized instrumentation for ocean-atmosphere studies while employing laboratory experiments, global field measurements, and numerical modeling to investigate surface phenomena.

The Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory operates from Scripps' OAR Building and Deep Sea Drilling West facilities, conducting experiments worldwide from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to marginal seas. Recent projects include acoustic bubble sensors, modular aerial sensing systems (MASS), and coherent Doppler techniques for turbulence analysis.