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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

U.S. Projects shown below in black; International Projects in red

In January 2007, the US National Science and Technology Council's Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) released its Ocean Research Priorities Plan (ORPP - http://ocean.ceq.gov/about/docs/orppfinal.pdf). This plan identified Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its relationship to sudden climate change as one of four near-term (5 year) research priorities.

Fortunately, within US CLIVAR we have had discussions over the past two years about the potentially important role of Atlantic ocean decadal-scale variability on climate, predictability within the Atlantic basin, and developing experimental prediction capabilities (see Variations V4N3; report from an Atlantic Decadal Variability Workshop, Miami, January 2007 and a workshop on an AMOC monitoring system for the South Atlantic, Argentina, March 2007).

In response to the ORPP, a US inter-agency group, coordinated through the US CLIVAR Office, established an AMOC Planning Team to develop a 5-yr phased AMOC Implementation Plan addressing relevant goals outlined in the ORPP. This AMOC Planning Team was co-chaired by Drs. Susan Lozier (Duke University) and Katherine Kelly (University of Washington). Now, a Science Team has been formed to execute the plan.

The US CLIVAR AMOC Science Team is listed below.

US CLIVAR AMOC Science Team
last updated April 2, 2009->
Susan Lozier, chair Duke University
Molly Baringer NOAA AOML
Jim Carton University of Maryland
Ping Chang Texas A&M
Tom Delworth NOAA GFDL
Kathleen Donohue University of Rhode Island
Sirpa Hakkinen NASA/GSFC
Bill Johns RSMAS - Univ. of Miami
Terry Joyce Woods Hold Oceanographic Inst.
George Halliwell RSMAS - Univ. of Miami
Kathie Kelly University of Washington
Craig Lee University of Washington
Tony Lee NASA JPL
Tim Liu NASA JPL
Vikram Mehta CRCES
Peter Minnett RSMAS - Univ. of Miami
Uwe Send Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
CK Shum Ohio State University
Fiamma Straneo Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
John Toole Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Josh Willis NASA JPL
Xiao-Hai Yan University of Delaware
Carl Wunsch MIT

For further information, contact Susan Lozier, chair.

 

 

 

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2009 Meeting presentations are now online.

2009 Atlantic MOC Meeting Agenda and Abstracts (pdf) and (doc) available.

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14 October 2008 - AMOC Annual report issued

24 October 2007 - AMOC Implementation Strategy

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