Proj.
# |
Principal
Investigator |
Co-PIs |
Project Title |
Sponsor |
Duration |
1 |
M. O. Baringer (NOAA.AOML) |
S. L. Garzoli, Gustavo Goni,
Carlisle Thacker, Claude Lumpkin (NOAA/AOML) |
Quarterly reports on the state
of the ocean: Meridional heat transport variability in the
Atlantic Ocean |
NOAA |
2006 - ongoing |
2 |
M. O. Baringer (NOAA/AOML) |
C. S. Meinen, S. L. Garzoli
(NOAA/AOML) |
Western
Boundary Time Series (WBTS) |
NOAA |
1/2000 - ongoing |
| 3 |
Amy Bower |
|
A Crossroads of the Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation: The Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone |
NSF |
9/2009 |
4 |
James Carton (U. Maryland) |
Benjamin Giese (Texas A&M
U.) |
SODA:
exploring centennial changes in ocean circulation |
NSF & NOAA |
6/2008 – 5/2011 |
| 5 |
P. Chang |
R. Saravanan and R. Zhang |
Towards an Understanding of the
Role of the Atlantic Thermohaline and Wind-driven Circulation
in the Tropical Atlantic Variability (TAV) |
NSF |
2006 - 2008 |
| 6 |
Ruth Curry |
|
An Investigation of Abyssal Mixing
and Interior Transports in the North Atlantic |
NSF |
10/2009 |
| 7 |
Tom Delworth (GFDL) |
A.J. Rosati |
Decadal Climate Predictability
and Predictions - Focus on the Atlantic |
NOAA |
5/2007 - 4/2010 |
| 8 |
Kathleen Donohue (URI) |
C.Flagg (Stony Brook Univ) and
T. Rossby (URI) |
The Oleander Project: Sustained
observations of ocean currents in the NW Atlantic between New
York and Bermuda |
NSF |
1993-2008, 2008-2013 (funding increment) |
9 |
George Halliwell (U Miami) |
W. Carlisle Thacker (NOAA/AOML) |
Observing system simulation
experiments for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation |
NOAA |
8/2008 – 7/2011 |
| 10 |
Gordon Hamilton (University of
Miami) |
F. Staneo (WHOI), L. Stearns (U
Kansas), D. Sutherland (UWash) |
Collaboative Reserch: Glacier-Ocean
Coupling in a Large East Greenland Fjord |
NSF-OPP |
8/2009 -7/2011 |
11 |
B. Johns (U. Miami) |
M. Baringer, C. Meinen (NOAA/AOML)
and L. Beal (U. Miami) |
An
Observing System for Meridional Heat Transport Variability
in the Subtropical Atlantic |
NSF & NOAA |
4/2003 – 1/2008; renewed
1/2008 – 1/2014 |
| 12 |
Terry Joyce (WHOI) |
|
Circulation and Variability in
the Mid-Latitude N. Atlantic Ocean |
NSF |
9/2002 - 2005; |
| 13 |
Igor Kamenkovich |
|
Collaborative Research: Studies
of the Influence of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current on the
Atlantic Meridional Circulation |
NSF |
7/2007 - 9/2010 |
14 |
K. A. Kelly (U. Washington) |
L. Thompson (U. Washington) |
(1) Assessing Meridional Transports
in the North Atlantic Ocean
(2) The Contribution of Ocean Circulation to North Atlantic
SST |
NASA |
10/2008 – 9/2012 |
15 |
Craig M. Lee (U. Washington) |
Dick Moritz, Jason Gobat (U.
Washington); and B. Petrie (Bedford Inst.) |
An Observational Array for High-Resolution,
Year-Round Measurements of Volume, Freshwater and Ice Flux
Variability in Davis Strait |
NSF |
4/2007 – 3/2009 |
16 |
Tong Lee (JPL) |
Geoffrey Gebbie (Harvard U.) |
Variability
and Forcing Mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation |
NASA |
9/2008 – 8/2011 |
| 17 |
Jonathon Lilly |
Thomas Rossby, Fiammetta Straneo |
Collaborative Research: Mode Water
Formation in the Lofoten Basin: A Key Element in the Meridional
Overturning Circulation |
NSF |
6/2009 - |
18 |
W. Timothy Liu (JPL) |
Xiaosu Xie (JPL) |
Evaluation
of Meridional Transport of Water and Heat in the Atlantic
Ocean Using Satellite Data |
NASA |
10/2007 – 9/2010 |
19 |
S. Lozier (Duke) |
A. Bower (WHOI) |
Export
Pathways from the Subpolar North Atlantic: Phase Two |
NSF |
3/2008 – 3/2011 |
| 20 |
Julian McCreary |
|
Dynamics of the descending branch
of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
NSF |
6/2009 - |
| 21 |
Vikram Mehta |
|
A Diagnostic Study of the Interannual
to Decadal Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Sea-surface Temperatures
Using Satellite Remote Sensing Based and ECCO-assimilated Oceanographic
Data Products |
NASA |
2008 - |
22 |
C. S. Meinen (NOAA/AOML) |
S. L. Garzoli, M. O. Baringer
(NOAA/AOML); A. Piola2, A. Troisi (SHN); E. Campos (IOUSP);
M. Mata (FURG); and S. Speich (IFREMER) |
South Atlantic MOC (SAM) |
NOAA |
10/2008 - ? |
23 |
Peter Minnett (U. Miami) |
Chelle Gentemann (Remote Sensing
Systems, Inc.) |
AMOC: Focused analysis of satellite
data sets |
NASA |
8/2008 – 7/2011 |
24 |
P.B. Rhines (U. Washington) |
S. Häkkinen (NASA GSFC) |
Pathways
of meridional circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean |
NASA |
10/2008 – 9/2012 |
| 25 |
Peter Rhines |
|
Deep ocean mixing and circulation
in subpolar seas |
NSF |
6/2009 |
| 26 |
Uwe Send (Scripps) |
|
Meridional Overturning Variability
Experiment (MOVE) |
NOAA |
2006-2010 |
| 27 |
CK Shum |
|
|
|
|
| 28 |
Fiamma Straneo (WHOI) |
S. Lentz |
From rivers to the ocean: the dynamics
of freshwater export from Hudson Strait |
NSF-OCE |
1/2009 - 12/2012 |
29 |
J. Toole (WHOI) |
R. Curry, T. Joyce, M. McCartney
(WHOI); W. Smethie, Jr (LDEO); J. Smith (Bedford Inst.) |
Line
W: A sustained measurement program sampling the North Atlantic
Deep Western Boundary Current and Gulf Stream at 39oN |
NSF & WHOI |
5/2003 – 2/2008; renewed
2/2008 – 12/2013 |
30 |
Josh K. Willis (JPL) |
|
Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation using a combination of SST, altimeter,
and Argo data |
NASA |
10/2008 – 9/2010 |
31 |
Carl Wunsch (MIT) |
Patrick Heimbach (MIT) and Rui
Ponte (AER, Inc.) |
AMOC observing system studies using
adjoint models |
NASA |
8/2008 – 7/2011 |
| 32 |
Xiao-Hai Yan |
Young-Heon Jo |
Satellite Multi-Sensor Studies
of Deep Ocean Convection in the North Atlantic Ocean |
NASA |
2009-2013 |
| 33 |
Jiayan Yang |
|
Atmospheric Forcing of Marginal-Sea
Overflows |
NSF |
9/2009 |
| 34 |
Gokhan Danabasoglu (NCAR) |
Joseph Tribbia (NCAR), Tom Delworth
(GFDL), Tony Rosati (GFDL), John Marshall (MIT) |
A Collaborative Investigation
of the Mechanisms,
Predicability, and Climate Impacts of Decadal-scale AMOC Variability Simulaed
in a Hierarchy of Models |
NOAA |
8/2009 - 7/2012 |
| 35 |
Michael J. McPhaden (NOAA PMEL) |
Dongxiao Zhang (UWash) and Wei
Cheng (UWash) |
Decadal and Multidecadal Variability
of the AMOC in Observational Records and Numerical Models |
NOAA |
5/2010 - 4/2013 |
| 36 |
Young-Oh Kwon (WHOI) |
Claude Frankingoul (WHOI), Gokhan
Danabasoglu (NCAR) |
Decadal Variability of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation and Its Impact on the Climate:
Two Regimes and Rapid Transition |
NOAA |
5/2010 - 4/2012 |
| 37 |
Patrick Heimback (MIT) |
|
Sensitivity Patterns of Atlantic
Meridional Overturning and Related Climate Diagnostics over the
Instrumental Period |
NOAA |
5/2010 - 4/2013 |
| 38 |
Shenfu Dong (NOAA) |
Gustavo Goni, Molly Baringer, George
Halliwell (NOAA AOML) |
Assessing the Sensitivity of Northward
Heat Transport/Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to
Forcing in Existing Numerical Model Simulations |
NOAA |
6/2010 - 5/2013 |
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