Research Projects

North Atlantic

	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.
	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).
	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.
	Data Assimilation The objective of this project is to provide HYCOM (Hybrid-coordinate ocean model) with data-assimilating capability.
	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.
	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.
	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
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Salinity Estimation This objective of this project is to provide capability for accurately estimating salinity from observations of temperature.
	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).