U.S. CLIVAR
AMOC Research Opportunities/Links to Activities
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Research Opportunities
- Broad Agency Announcement
for NOPP: Atlantic Meriditional Overturning Circulation
- Full text: 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
- Full text: http://www.climate.noaa.gov/index.jsp?pg=/opportunities/opp_index.jsp&opp=2008/amoc_info.jsp
- 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
- 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