Ocean Mixing

Professor Mike Meredith is an oceanographer and Science Leader at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge, UK. He is head of the Polar Oceans team at BAS, which has research foci on determining the role of the polar oceans on global climate, the ice sheets, and the interdisciplinary ocean system. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a NERC Individual Merit Promotion (Band 2) scientist. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals, and was the inaugural Chair of the Southern Ocean Observing System. He led the design and delivery of the multi-institute ORCHESTRA programme, which is unravelling the role of the Southern Ocean in controlling global climate. He was recently coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. In 2018, Mike was awarded the Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica, in recognition of his contributions to the study of the Southern Ocean and its global impacts, and the Challenger Medal, for his contributions to marine science. Professor Alberto Naveira Garabato is an oceanographer interested in the processes governing ocean circulation and its role in climate. His group’s research focuses on unravelling the dynamics connecting the breadth of scales of oceanic flow— from small-scale turbulence to the basin-scale circulation—through the development and application of new approaches to measure the ocean. He holds a Chair of Physical Oceanography at the University of Southampton, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Antarctic Survey. His work has been recognised with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the European Geosciences Union (2008), an Honorary Fellowship of the Challenger Society (2010), a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010) and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2014). He was the lead proponent of the RoSES programme, which is assessing the role of the Southern Ocean in the global carbon cycle. He is the founding director of the NEXUSS Centre of Doctoral Training, which is training 45 PhD students at 10 UK institutions in the use of cutting-edge sensor and autonomous system technologies for environmental science.

1. Ocean mixing: oceanography at a watershed
Alberto Naveira Garabato and Michael Meredith
2. The role of ocean mixing in the climate system
Angélique V. Melet, Robert Hallberg and David P. Marshall
3. The role of mixing in the large-scale ocean circulation
Casimir de Lavergne, Sjoerd Groeskamp, Jan Zika and Helen L. Johnson
4. Ocean near-surface layers
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Leah Johnson and Fangli Qiao
5. The lifecycle of surface-generated near-inertial waves
Leif N. Thomas and Xiaoming Zhai
6. The lifecycle of topographically-generated internal waves
Ruth Musgrave, Friederike Pollmann, Samuel Kelly and Maxim Nikurashin
7. Mixing at the ocean’s bottom boundary
Kurt L. Polzin and Trevor J. McDougall
8. Submesoscale processes and mixing
Jonathan Gula, John Taylor, Andrey Shcherbina and Amala Mahadevan
9. Isopycnal mixing
Ryan Abernathey, Anand Gnanadesikan, Marie-Aude Pradal and Miles A. Sundermeyer
10.Mixing in equatorial oceans
James N. Moum, Andrei Natarov, Kelvin J. Richards, Emily L. Shroyer and William D. Smyth
11.Mixing in the Arctic ocean
Yueng-Djern Lenn, Ilker Fer, Mary-Louise Timmermans and Jennifer A. MacKinnon
12.Mixing in the Southern Ocean
Sarah T. Gille, Katy L. Sheen, Sebastiaan Swart and Andrew F. Thompson
13.The crucial contribution of mixing to present and future ocean oxygen distribution
Marina Lévy, Laure Resplandy, Jaime B. Palter, Damien Couespel and Zouhair Lachkar
14.New technological frontiers in ocean mixing
Eleanor Frajka-Williams, J. Alexander Brearley, Jonathan D. Nash and Caitlin B. Whalen