Task Team 1: AMOC Observing System Implementation and Evaluation

The team is charged with the design and implementation of an AMOC monitoring system. AMOC monitoring in the U.S. is currently accomplished by a collection of field programs including: ARGO, JASON, the Global Drifter Array and collection of satellites returning ocean surface and meteorological information. Near-term priorities for this task team include:

• the design of a subpolar North Atlantic and subtropical South Atlantic monitoring system;
• assessing the importance of deep temperature and salinity measurements in monitoring AMOC variability; and
• assessing the meridional coherence of AMOC changes in prognostic and state estimation models

The following science team members are part of the Observation task team.

• Susan Lozier, Chair
• Patrick Heimbach, Vice-chair
• Kathleeen Donohue
• George Halliwell
• Bill Johns
• Craig Lee
• Chris Meinen
• Uwe Send
• Fiamma Straneo
• John Toole