IMEDEA and ICTS SOCIB researchers analyze the transport of water from the superficial ocean to the deepest
- The CALYPSO Project addresses the challenge of observing, understanding, and predicting the pathways for vertical transport of heat, nutrients, carbon, oxygen, and other properties in the ocean
Figure: Infographic showing the study region in the western Mediterranean and the sampling platforms used, including satellites, submarine gliders, two ships with towed instruments, moorings and a series of drifting instruments to measure flow and contrasts of properties on the Almería-Oran front (Source: WHOI)
Esporles, Noviember 27, 2020. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has published a work performed by researchers at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) and the Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), in Spain, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Applied Ocean Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington, in the United States, about the CALYPSO Project. This project, funded by the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR), aims to understand, characterize and predict three-dimensional transport in the ocean, both horizontally and vertically, from its study in the western Mediterranean, a small-scale natural laboratory and one of the ocean's richest biodiversity hotspots. In addition, CALYPSO is aligned with the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) contributing to the efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and, in particular, the SDG 14 “Life Below Water”.
This is an unsolved global problem, as direct observations of vertical transport in the ocean are not yet possible. “The vertical exchange between the surface ocean and the interior affects the exchange of heat and freshwater, the biological productivity, the export of carbon, and the ventilation of oxygen. Thus, improving the observation and understanding of these processes and their impacts on a climate scale is one of the main challenges being faced in Earth observation”, says Ananda Pascual, researcher at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) and co-author of this work. With this objective, CALYPSO covers very small scales of the order of 0.1 to 10 km (submesoscales), the study of which has been intensified in recent years, combining the experience of IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) and the capabilities of SOCIB.
Scientists are investigating this vertical transport and the exchange of water masses at the eastern end of the Alboran Sea, the westernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, an area of great oceanographic interest where the Atlantic and Mediterranean water masses are converging, giving rise to the Almeria–Oran front.
Innovative techniques
Illuminating results
Now, the researchers continue with the intensive and detailed assessment of the data collected during the last campaigns. In parallel, they are working on the preparation of the final field campaign scheduled for March-April 2022, from the research vessels L'Atalante, Pelagia and SOCIB. This campaign will include a greater number of observation platforms and will complete the data set collected to understand, characterize and predict three-dimensional transport in the ocean.
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More information:
- Mahadevan, A., Pascual, A., Rudnick, D. L., Ruiz, S., Tintoré, J., & D’Asaro, E. (2020). Coherent pathways for vertical transport from the surface ocean to interior. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (11): E1996–E2004.
- Investigadores del IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) y la ICTS SOCIB analizan el transporte de agua del océano superficial hacia el más profundo (SOCIB)