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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