JERICO-S3 TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS (TA) - FRIPP-CEE-ACCESSO ALL'INFRASTRUTTURA SOCIB GLIDER

The project aims to study, through a multisensor sea-glider mission supported by modeled and remotely-sensed data, the impact of frontal dynamics on the Phytoplankton production and distribution as inferred from fluorometric measurements during a DCM stage. Deep Chlorophyll maximum is also a good situation to estimate the role of the Mesoscale and submesoscale features on Carbon export. This is the main aim of the present project.
The specific objectives are the following:
1) Observe the dynamics of the front in terms of: horizontal and vertical velocities; instabilities; mixing and enhanced dynamical stratification
2) Study the impact of such frontal dynamics on production in a DCM condition as in Olita et al 2017.
3) We will try to estimate POC and carbon export from DCM to deeper layers (>200 m) promoted by vertical submesoscale and mesoscale dynamics.