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Air-Sea Coupling Mechanisms in Tropical Cyclones The goal of this project is to improve our understanding of the role of air-sea interactions in modifying the near-surface wind structure of tropical cyclones. |
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Benguela Current Experiment The main objective of this program is to study the pathways, velocity, transport and variability of the Benguela Current and its extension with emphasis on tracking floats in the intermediate water. |
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Data Assimilation The objective of this project is to provide HYCOM (Hybrid-coordinate ocean model) with data-assimilating capability. |
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) This project is to investigate role of the western Pacific interannual anomaly patterns in the evolution of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), in an attempt to improve ENSO predictions. |
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Florida Bay Circulation and Exchange Study The objectives of this program are to describe and quantify the interaction and exchange of Florida Bay waters with the connecting coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean through the channels between the Florida Keys. |
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High Density XBT Lines To measure the seasonal to interannual variability in upper ocean thermal structure in the center of the subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic |
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North Brazil Current The purpose of this project is to carry out a comprehensive observational study of the North Brazil Current (NBC) retroflection and ring generation process, and to study the structure and evolution of NBC rings as they propagate northwestward from the NBC retroflection. |
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Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Program (OACES) 24°N Section Measurements along the 24N transatlantic line will help to quantify the inventories and fluxes of carbon within the world's oceans and complete the world survey. |
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Oceanography of the Intra-Americas Sea - IASlinks.org This project provides support for Caribbean countries to cope with the adverse effects of global climate change through a better understanding of regional air-ocean-land interactions, vulnerability assessment, planning and capacity building. |
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Salinity Estimation This objective of this project is to provide capability for accurately estimating salinity from observations of temperature. |
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Windward Islands Passages Monitoring Program The goal of this cooperative program with Caribbean countries is to determine the quantity and sources of transport between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea as part of the North Atlantic Ocean's Meridional Overturning Cell (MOC). |
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Arlindo The goal of Arlindo is to resolve the circulation and water mass stratification within the Indonesian Seas in order to formulate a thorough description of the source, spreading patterns, inter-ocean transport and dominant mixing processes. |
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Atlantic Circulation and Climate Experiment (ACCE) ACCE is the World Ocean Circulation Experiment's (WOCE) last field program and is carried out in the North Atlantic. ACCE is directed at increasing our understanding of the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and global climate. NOAA joins several other NSF-funded investigators in deploying a North Atlantic wide PALACE float array to study the processes important in establishing sea-surface temperature (SST) variability. |
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Atlantic Climate Change Program (ACCP) We wish to understand seasonal to decadal climate variability, assess ocean-atmosphere models with data and develop sampling strategies. We conduct cruises in the tropical Atlantic to support this research. |
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Climate and Upper Layer Temperature Structure of the Atlantic Ocean Describe the seasonal variability of the circulation gyres in the North Atlantic using expendable bathythermograph data (XBT). |
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Deep Water Circualtion in the Tropical Atlantic: The Trident Expedition Measuring the deep limb of the meridional overturning circulation and assessing the representativeness of heat flux measurements in the center of the subtropical gyre. |
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Direct Observations in Support of Operational Monitoring To obtain direct measurements of the volume of water passing through the Straits of Florida between the Florida peninsula and the Bahamas. |
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Dynamics of the South East Atlantic Ocean Sea height anomaly data are used to derive upper ocean thickness and to track anticyclonic (warm) rings in the South East Atlantic during the Benguela Current Experiment. |
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Indian Ocean Repeat Hydrography We acquire and analyze data on the time-dependent circulation of the Indian Ocean in order to understand and eventually predict the role of the basin in global atmospheric climate. |
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Indian Ocean One Time Hydrography As part of the World Ocean Circualtion Experiment (WOCE) one time survey of the Indian Ocean, high quality hydrographic, ADCP and chemistry data were collected along a section through the center of the Central Indian Basin and a repeat of the a section sampling the northward flow of deep water West of Australia. |
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Interactions between the Tropics and Extratropics This project is to investigate climate variability of the coupled tropical-extratropical ocean-atmosphere system and to understand how the tropics interacts with extratropics. |
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Overflows in the Atlantic Understanding the dynamics of overflows from marginal seas and their impact on the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Pan-American Climate Studies (PACS) We wish to understand the role of the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans in the seasonal to interannual climate variability of the American Monsoon. |
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South Atlantic Climate Change (SACC) The main goal of the program is to understand the interactive relationship of the southwestern South Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) and the larger scale climate behavior. The SST is the oceanic variable that most influences the atmosphere, and therefore is a sensitive indicator of climate variability. |
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Statistical Modeling and Prediction This objective of this project is to develop better models for predicting near-term climatic conditions within the United States. |
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Thermal Variablility of the North Atlantic The objective of this project is to characterize the thermal variability of the upper few hundred meters of the North Atlantic. |