Research project

DIMES: Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean

Research groups:

Physical Oceanography
Lead researcher:

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Harry Bryden
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato

Professor in Physical Oceanography

Connect with Alberto

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Harry Bryden

Connect with Harry

Email: [email protected]

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

Modification of turbulent dissipation rates by a deep Southern Ocean eddy

K.L. Sheen, J.A. Brearley, A.C. Naveira Garabato, D.A. Smeed, L. St. Laurent, M.P. Meredith, A.M. Thurnherr & S.N. Waterman, 2015, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(9), 3450-3457

DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063216

Type: article

Rapid injection of near-inertial shear into the stratified upper ocean at an Antarctic Circumpolar Current front

Alexander Forryan, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Kurt L. Polzin & Stephanie Waterman, 2015, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(9), 3431-3441

DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063494

Type: article

Circulation, retention, and mixing of waters within the Weddell-Scotia Confluence, Southern Ocean: The role of stratified Taylor columns

Michael P. Meredith, Andrew S. Meijers, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Peter J. Brown, Hugh J. Venables, E. Povl Abrahamsen, Loïc Jullion & Marie-José Messias, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(1), 547-562

DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010462

Type: article

Boundary mixing in Orkney Passage outflow

K.L. Polzin, A.C. Naveira Garabato, E.P. Abrahamsen, L. Jullion & M.P. Meredith, 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(12), 8627-8645

DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010099

Type: article

Eddy-induced variability in Southern Ocean abyssal mixing on climatic timescales

K.L. Sheen, A.C. Naveira Garabato, J.A. Brearley, M.P. Meredith, K.L. Polzin, D.A. Smeed, A. Forryan, B.A. King, J-B. Sallée, L. St. Laurent, A.M. Thurnherr, J.M. Toole, S.N. Waterman & A.J. Watson, 2014, Nature Geoscience, 7, 577-582

DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2200

Type: article