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AMOC Science
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 members
can be found along with a list of their currently funded AMOC
research. For further information, contact Bill
Johns,
chair.
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