The new project (which we've labeled SMILE, for the "Sub-mesoscale MIxed-Layer Eddies" experiment) is funded by the National Science Foundation to study upper-ocean turbulence and mixed-layer restratification by baroclinic eddies. Field work on the R/V Sikuliaq in March 2017 will use a combination of a ship-towed profiler (SWIMS) and clusters of autonomous profiling floats (EM-APEX, which measure turbulence through temperature microstructure and horizontal currents through electromagnetic motional induction, in addition to the standard T and S measurements present on Argo floats). This will be an observational study of the theoretical process described by Fox Kemper et al 2008 in the oceanic environment described by Hosegood et al 2008.
Scientific leads ("Principal Investigators") on the project include Eric Kunze (Northwest Research Associates), Tom Farrar (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), and John Mickett and James Girton (University of Washington Applied Physics Lab).
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