The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment: A First Assessment

The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES) was designed as a multi-pronged US and UK CLIVAR effort to measure and to better understand diapycnal mixing and along-isopycnal eddy transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), because these processes together appear to play a key role in the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) (Gille et al, 2007). The project represents an unusual effort to evaluate simultaneously the roles of diapycnal and isopycnal mixing, and the program has benefited from close collaboration between observationalists, theoreticians and modelers. Fieldwork for DIMES began in early 2009, and the initial phase of the field observations is now wrapping up. This article provides a brief preliminary summary of early DIMES findings.

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Published
Author(s):
Authors: Gille, Sarah T., Ledwell, James, Naveira-Garabato, Alberto, Speer, Kevin, Balwada, Dhruv, Brearley, Alex, Girton, James B., Griesel, Alexa, Ferrari, Raffaele, Klocker, Andreas, LaCasce, Joseph, Lazarevich, Peter, Mackay, Neill, Meredith, Michael P. ORCIDORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Messias, Marie-José, Owens, Breck, Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Sheen, Kathy, Shuckburgh, Emily ORCIDORCID record for Emily Shuckburgh, Smeed, David A. ORCIDORCID record for David A. Smeed, St.Laurent, Louis C., Toole, John M., Watson, Andrew J., Wienders, Nicolas, Zajaczkovski, Uriel

On this site: Emily Shuckburgh, Jean-Baptiste Sallee, Michael Meredith
Date:
1 January, 2012
Journal/Source:
CLIVAR Exchanges / 58(Vol. 17(1)
Page(s):
46-48