Our Challenge
The aim of this project is to understand the driving mechanisms and characteristics of their own retroflections; follow the trajectory, transformation and fate of retroflected waters and identify teleconnections allow both retroflected regions to operate in a unified manner.
The general objectives are:
Improving our understanding of the mechanisms that cause these retroflexions.
Browse advective and diffusive processes taking place in the associated frontal systems.
Assess the current role in the transport and diversion of water and its physical and biogeochemical charge.
Study the routes taken and transformations experienced by retroflected waters.
Studying the mechanisms who forces teleconnections between these regional branches that have a global impact.
From the strategical and technological point of view, the project also represents an opportunity to:
Continue the development of instrumented bypass and useful tools for the international oceanographic community .
Continue participating in international programs such as the South Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
Optimize annual BIO Hesperides traffic to and from Antarctica.