The ICON SMT-Wave experiment is aimed to study the interaction between
a) internal tides and mesoscale eddies
b) sub-mesoscale and mesoscale dynamics.
SMT stands for SubMesoscale Telescope. SMT-Wave
For the development of the earth-system model ICON, carried out at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in cooperation with the German meteorological service (DWD), the ocean compartment plays a major