Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Program

(an interagency program in support of JSOST)

 

News and Information

 

  • 14 October 2008 AMOC Science Team releases first annual progress report
  • 18-19 September 2008 Joint AMOC-CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel Meeting http://www.clivar.org/organization/atlantic/meetings/atlantic_9meet.php
  • 30 June - 2 July 2008 Final RAPID Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid/sci/am08.php
  • 19 September 2007 - Position Available at the Walker Institute for Climate System Research for a talented and imaginative scientist to work on a project aiming to understand and reduce the uncertainty in model predictions of the future of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Full description (pdf).
  • 22 August 2007 - "Ocean circulation noisy, not stalling", Quirin Schiermeier, Nature 448, 844-84, | doi:10.1038/448844b (pdf)
  • 5 February 2007 - From Science magazine: 2008 U.S. Budget: Ocean Research gets Modest Boost
  • 26 January 2007 - Ocean Research Priorities Plan Released - From Greenwire "...Ocean monitoring, seafloor mapping and fisheries management will see budget increases in President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request, administration officials said today.The administration is requesting an increase of $143 million over its fiscal 2007 budget for selected oceans projects in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Interior Department."
  • Response to Bryden paper by the RAPID community

 

 

 

 

 

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