Components

DIMES is composed of a number of different activities, summarized here:

Tracer release
Microstructure and Finestructure Measurements
Isopycnal following RAFOS floats
Drake Passage mooring array
Shearmeter measurements (Download pdf: overview/status)
Analysis of POP and OCCAM model output
Hydrography, inverse modeling, and Bernoulli inverse
Analysis of satellite altimetry

The original proposal PDFs summarize the US and UK programs:

For more information, check out this article written by Catherine Brewster during her visit to the British Antarctic Survey.

Modeling

DIMES involves numerical models of all scales, both to help with planning experiment design and data analysis, and also with an aim to eventually improving models used for climate simulations. Here's a summary of current projects, some funded through DIMES and some independently supported. (Web sites and e-mail addresses are listed as points of contact.)

OCCAM Analysis	Emily Shuckburgh	effective diffusivities	web/	emsh[at]bas.ac.uk
OCCAM Analysis	Dave Stevens	tracer release, effective diffusivities, spice	web/	D.Stevens[at]uea.ac.uk
POP Analysis	Alexa Griesel, Julie McClean, Mat Maltrud, Joe LaCasce, Sarah Gille, Janet Sprintall	Eulerian and Lagrangian effective diffusivities	web/	agriesel[at]ucsd.edu
process studies	George Nurser and David Smeed	high-resolution process modelling work studying the generation of internal waves by jets and eddy flows over topography, with a view to developing new diapycnal mixing parameterizations.	web/	G.Nurser[at]noc.soton.ac.uk
process studies	Andy Thompson	role of mesoscale eddies and topography in jet formation on the ACC, using idealized 2-layer and 3-dimensional quasi-geostrophic models	web/	A.F.Thompson[at]damtp.cam.ac.uk
process studies (NICKELS)	Jen MacKinnon	internal lee waves	web/	jmackinn[at]ucsd.edu
SOSE analysis	Ryan Abernathey, John Taylor, Raf Ferrari, John Taylor	Nakamura-style diffusivities, Lagrangian diffusivities	web/	raffaele[at]mit.edu

DIMES is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (U.S.), Natural Environment Research Council (U.K) and British Antarctic Survey (U.K.)

NSF

NERC

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