LIDEX 10

The French Slocum glider Tenuse, was operated to explore and study the dynamics of the southeastern Ligurian and Corsica Channel in summer 2010 as part of the LIDEX10 experiment, whose general objective was to improve the understanding of turbulent transport and dispersion in the ocean, more specifically to study the dispersion in a coastal frontal zone due to mixing by meso- and submesoscale structures