Esposito, G., Donnet, S., Berta, M., Shcherbina, A. Y., Freilich, M., Centurioni, L., D’Asaro, E. A., Farrar, J. T., Johnston, T. M. S., Mahadevan, A., Özgökmen, T., Pascual, A., Poulain, P.-M., Ruiz, S., Tarry, D. R., & Griffa, A., 2023. Inertial oscillations and frontal processes in an Alboran Sea jet: Effects on divergence and vertical transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(3), e2022JC019004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019004
Vertical transport pathways in the ocean are still only partially understood despite their importance for biogeochemical, pollutant, and climate applications. In the ONR-funded CALYPSO experiment, we made detailed measurements of a submesoscale frontal jet in the Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) during a period of highly variable wind.
The top panel in the figure illustrates the entire CALYPSO survey made between 28 March and 11 April with the ship and between 4 and 29 April by surface drifters. The black box is the insert presented in the bottom panel. The latter illustrates the surveys done between 1 and 5 April. (Image provided by Tom Farrar)