Process Studies
CLIMODE - CLIvar MOde
Water Dynamic Experiment
- CLIMODE is a project to study the dynamics of 'Eighteen
Degree Water' (EDW), the subtropical mode water of the North
Atlantic. This project stems from two years of CLIVAR planning
(with advice and support of both the Atlantic and US CLIVAR committees)
to develop an experiment to attack a key process that is poorly
understood and poorly represented in ocean climate models - i.e.
the treatment of convection, eddy and mixing processes in setting
properties of subtropical mode waters, the associated air-sea
interaction, and the exchange of fluid between the mixed layer
and the upper ocean. CLIMODE will work closely with the Climate
Process Team (CPT) Emilie (see below).
DIMES - Diapycnal
and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment
in the Southern Ocean is
an experiment designed to measure the diapycnal diffusivity
and mesoscale isopycnal diffusivity at several levels and in
several environments in the Antarctic Circumpoloar Current
(ACC). The
underlying motivation of DIMES is to understand the meridional
overturning circulation of the global ocean.
EPIC - Eastern Pacific Investigation
of Climate Processes in the Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere System
KESS - Kuroshio Extension Sytem Study is
a collaborative effort between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Hawaii. The
purpose of KESS is to understand the processes that govern the
variability of and the interaction between the Kuroshio Extension
and its recirculation gyre. Additional information can be found
at the University of
Rhode Island KESS page.
NAME - North American Monsoon Experiment is
a joint CLIVAR-GEWEX process study and the North American implementation
of the WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Program. Its overall aim is to determine
the sources and limits of predictability of warm season precipiation
over North America, with emphasis on times scales ranging from
seasonal to interannual.
SALLJ - South American Low Level Jet Experiment is
the first of a series of experiments that will attempt, during
a rigorous data gathering field phase, to monitor, quantify, and
analyze low-level circulations that modulate regional rainfall.
VOCALS - VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study
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