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To measure multi-scale upper-ocean velocity fields and test whether oceanic frontogenesis and submesoscale instabilities significantly drive vertical transport of climate and biological variables.

February 14, 2025Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

S-MODE: The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

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To measure multi-scale upper-ocean velocity fields and test whether oceanic frontogenesis and submesoscale instabilities significantly drive vertical transport of climate and biological variables.
Conducted three field campaigns approximately 100 km west of San Francisco in the Pacific Ocean across fall and spring seasons from 2021 to 2023.
Coordinated airborne remote sensing across three aircraft alongside satellite observations, research ships, surface drifters, and dozens of autonomous surface and subsurface vehicles.
Successfully captured high-resolution upper-ocean surface velocity fields paired with depth-dependent measurements of temperature and chlorophyll within the surface boundary layer.
Established coordinated multi-platform sampling capabilities that provide validated observational data to benchmark high-resolution computational ocean models.

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Suborbital field campaign demonstrates coordinated multi-platform observation of upper-ocean velocity fields, highlighting the role of submesoscale dynamics in vertical climate transport.

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Farrar et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7425ffd084cc11716e86d4 https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-23-0178.1

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Suborbital field campaign demonstrates coordinated multi-platform observation of upper-ocean velocity fields, highlighting the role of submesoscale dynamics in vertical climate transport.

S-MODE: The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

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