Recent AOML performance measures and the associated milestones are organized below under their Strategic Plan Element and by the fiscal year and quarter in which a status report is due. At the end of each quarter, completed progress reports will be posted in html form under the associated milestone.
Performance Measures - PM
Milestones - M
M: Define factors controlling transport of selected species through estuarine inlets. (AOML, P. Ortner)
M: Determine if recent sediments in Florida Bay are datable by radiometric means. (AOML, T. Nelsen)
M: Perform a meteorological evaluation of GPS dropsondes. (AOML, H. Willoughby)
M: Report on the results of monitoring and assessing the quantity of TAO observations being assimilated into the NMC operational models. (AOML, W.E. Woodward)
2nd Quarter FY 97
M: Establish three new international SEAS logistics depots in Capetown, Freemantle, and LeHavre. Cooperative SEAS depots presently exist in Chile, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, U.K., New Zealand, Costa Rica, St. Croix, Vancouver, Canada, and Noumea, New Caledonia. (AOML, W.E. Woodward)
4th Quarter FY 97
M: Collect 15,000 Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) temperature profiles during FY 1997. The SEAS Program collected 15,000 profiles last year and expects to be able to do the same this year. These observations primarily support the seasonal climate forecasting effort at NCEP and at operational/research centers around the globe. (AOML, W.E. Woodward)
M: Collect 85,000 Surface Marine Observations via the SEAS system. The number of surface marine observations collected last year was 80,000. SEAS expects to collect even more this year as the next generation SEAS is gradually implemented. (AOML, W.E. Woodward)
M: Achieve a partial transition from GOES to the INMARSAT satellite-based SEAS system (30% complete by the end of FY 1997). NWS currently spends more than $0.6M annually to receive shipboard surface marine observations. Full implementation of INMARSAT SEAS on all of the NWS VOS (1500) would save NWS nearly one half million dollars each year. (AOML, W.E. Woodward) )
M: Document decadal variability in aspects of North Atlantic circulation. (AOML, W. Wilson; OGP)
M: Determine mechanisms controlling the temporal variability of the equatorial Pacific CO2 concentrations and fluxes. (AOML, R. Wanninkof; OGP)
PM: Implement in situ technologies for physical and chemical ocean observations.
M: Implement profiling ALACE grid in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean. (AOML, R. Molinari)