Research Opportunities

• Broad Agency Announcement for NOPP: Atlantic Meriditional Overturning Circulation
  • http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/BAA/docs/07-040_ONR%20NOPP%20BAA%20FY08.pdf
• Deadline: 11 December 2007
• Awardees notified: 1 April 2008; Grant begins: 1 May 2008
• NOAA: Assessing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Variability: Implications for Rapid Climate Change
  • Letters of Intent: 2 November 2007
  • Full Proposal Deadline: 7 December 2007

Monitoring Programs

US Activities

• Florida Current Transport
• NOAA - AOML XBT Lines
• Line W - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• Arctic/Subarctice Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) East
• Arctic/Subarctice Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) West

UK Activitives

• RAPID program
• Monitoring the Atlantic Conveyor
• Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux Array (MOCHA)

Research Activities

NASA

• Instrument Teams
  • AQUARIUS - sea surface salinity
  • Jason-1 - ocean topography
  • TOPEX/POSEIDON - Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation
  • Winds - Remote Sensing of Surface Winds
• Physical Oceanography Program
• Modeling and Analysis Program

NOAA Climate Variability & Predictability Program - Call for proposals under the title "Assessing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Variability: Implications for Rapid Climate Change". The AMOC program will include activities in the following areas:

• Fundamental research (e.g. description of the AMOC, its variability, critical processes)
• Observing and monitoring the AMOC (e.g. design and development, stewardship of data)
• Ocean analyses (e.g. improving ocean models and historical ocean analyses)
• Development of nowcasting capabilities and experimental products
• Assessment of potential impacts of rapid AMOC changes

NSF - Physical Oceanography Program

• Collaborative Research: Studies of the Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current on the Atlantic Meridional Circulation
• Collaborative Research: Towards an Understanding of the Role of the Atlantic Theremohaline and Wind Driven Circuluation in Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV)
• Analytical and Numerical Studies of Deep Overflows and Related Circulations
• Collaborative Research: The Influence of the Mediterranean Overflow Water on the Climatic Variability of the North Atlantic
• Collaborative Research: Physical mechanisms of (inter) Decadal Variability of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation
• Mechanisms of Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic: The Thermohaline Circulation, Great Salinity Anomalies, and Gulf Stream Path
• Modeling the Freshening and Cooling Event in the Subpolar North Atlantic Ocean and its Impact on Thermohaline Circulation
• An Observing System for Meridional Heat Transport Variability in the Subtropical North Atlantic

Other Activities

• University of Wisconsin - The Nature of Decadal Variability of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
• NOAA PMEL - Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean

Announcements

New Western Boundary Current paper published - Role of Gulf Stream, Kuroshio-Oyashio and Their Extensions in Large-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction : A Review, J. Climate, 15 June 2010, Vol. 23, pp 3249-3281

2010 Workshop on Evaluation of ReanalysesNovember 1-3, Baltimore, Maryland

First Circular Announcement for WCRP Open Science Conference October 2011

Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise(PACE) seeking Organizational Partners

PSMI Publication on Best Practices for Process Studies released and has reached #6 on AMS most viewed list. (BAMS, July 2009)

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Science Tidbits    

April 2010 - Surface Fluxes: Challenges for High Latitudes - presentations posted

February 2010 - YOTC-GS Alpha Prototype for Satellite data has been released to the public

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