Research Projects

Predict and Assess Decadal to Centennial Climate Change

	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.
	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.
	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.
	Benchmarks for Atlantic Ocean Circulation Oceanographers frequently decompose the total oceanic circulation into two components: a wind-driven component existing primarily in the horizontal plane and a thermohaline-driven component existing primarily in the vertical plane (also called the meridional overturning circulation, MOC). This decomposition provides a framework for describing responses of the ocean to different surface forcing functions.
	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.
	Climate Observing System for the Tropical Atlantic (COSTA) We are currently working on this page. Information on the recent workshop in Miami is available through this link.
	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.
	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.
	Florida Current Transport Project Since 1982, NOAA has recognized the importance of long-term monitoring of the Florida Current and it has funded a project to monitor the transport variations of the current using a submarine cable and snapshot estimates made by shipboard instruments.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Overflows in the Atlantic Understanding the dynamics of overflows from marginal seas and their impact on the thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.
	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.
	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).