The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment: A First Assessment

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. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Messias, Marie-José; Owens, Breck; Sallée, Jean-Baptiste; Sheen, Kathy; Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9206-3444; Smeed, David A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1740-1778; St.Laurent, Louis C.; Toole, John M.; Watson, Andrew J.; Wienders, Nicolas; Zajaczkovski, Uriel. 2012 The Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment: A First Assessment. CLIVAR Exchanges, 58(Vol. 17(1). 46-48.

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Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Polar Oceans
NORA Subject Terms:	Marine Sciences
Date made live:	01 Jun 2012 10:35 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18245

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