Research project

DIMES: Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean

Research groups:

Physical Oceanography
Lead researchers:

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Harry Bryden
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

ANG

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato

Professor in Physical Oceanography

Connect with Alberto

Email: acng@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Harry Bryden

Connect with Harry

Email: H.L.Bryden@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Physical Oceanography

The research group explores patterns of change and variability in satellite and in-situ measurements of surface temperature, sea level and productivity.

Research outputs

Rapid cross-density ocean mixing at mid-depths in the Drake Passage measured by tracer release

Andrew J. Watson, James R. Ledwell, Marie-José Messias, Brian A. King, Neill Mackay, Michael P. Meredith, Benjamin Mills & Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, 2013, Nature, 501(7467), 408-411

DOI: 10.1038/nature12432

Type: article

Control of Mode and Intermediate Water Mass Properties in Drake Passage by the Amundsen Sea Low

Sally E. Close, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Elaine L. McDonagh, Brian A. King, Martin Biuw & Lars Boehme, 2013, Journal of Climate, 26(14), 5102-5123

DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00346.1

Type: article

Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)

K.L. Sheen, J. A. Brearley, A.C. Naveira Garabato, S. Waterman, D.A. Smeed, J.R. Ledwell, M.P. Meredith, L. St. Laurent, A.M. Thurnherr, J.M. Toole & A.J. Watson, 2013, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 118(6), 2774-2792

DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20217

Type: article

Dense bottom layers in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean: Creation, lifespan, and destruction

Michael P. Meredith, Peter J. Brown, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Loïc Jullion, Hugh J. Venables & Marie-José Messias, 2013, Geophysical Research Letters, 40(5), 933-936

DOI: 10.1002/grl.50260

Type: article

The Impact of Small-Scale Topography on the Dynamical Balance of the Ocean

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, A.J. George Nurser, Robert B. Scott & John A. Goff, 2013, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43(3), 647-668

DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-056.1

Type: article

Baroclinic adjustment in Drake Passage driven by tropical Pacific forcing

Sally E. Close & Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, 2012, Geophysical Research Letters, 39(19), L19610-[5pp]

DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053402

Type: article

Sensitivity of the Overturning Circulation in the Southern Ocean to Decadal Changes in Wind Forcing

Michael P. Meredith, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Andrew McC. Hogg & Riccardo Farneti, 2012, Journal of Climate, 25(1), 99-110

DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4204.1

Type: article