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Funded Projects

 

Principal Investigator

Institutions
(PI; Co-PIs)

Project Title

 

Tide Gauge Stations

 

Mark Merrifield

U. Hawaii

University of Hawaii Sea Level Center

 

 

Allison Allen

NOAA CO-OPS

Sea Level Observation: NOAA’s Tide Station Network

 

Drifting Buoys

 

Luca Centurioni

UCSD SIO

The Global Drifter Program: Drifter Measurements of Surface Velocity, SST, SSS, Winds and Air Pressure

 

 

Rick Lumpkin

NOAA AOML

Surface Drifter Program: AOML’s component of NOAA’s Global Drifter Program

 

Tropical Moored Buoys

 

Michael McPhaden

NOAA PMEL; NOAA AOML

The Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array

 

Ocean Reference Stations

 

Robert Weller

WHOI

Ocean Reference Stations

 

 

Christopher Fairall

NOAA ESRL

High Resolution Climate Data From Research and Volunteer Observing Ships

 

 

Molly Baringer

NOAA AOML

Western Boundary Time Series in the Atlantic Ocean

 

 

Christopher Meinen

NOAA AOML

Southwest Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAM)

 

 

Meghan Cronin

NOAA PMEL

PMEL Ocean Climate Stations

 

 

Bruce Huber

Columbia U. LDEO

Weddell Sea Moorings

 

 

Arnold Gordon

Columbia U. LDEO

Monitoring the Indonesian Throughflow in Makassar Strait

 

 

Uwe Send

UCSD SIO

Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE)

 

 

Uwe Send

UCSD SIO

Integrated Boundary Current Observations in the Global Climate System

 

 

Uwe Send

UCSD SIO

Moored Climate, Carbon, Biogeochemical, and Ecosystem Observations in the Southern California Current

 

 

William Kessler

NOAA PMEL

Gliders Monitor Western Boundary Current Transport in the Solomon Sea: On-site Operations and Local

 

 

Mark Morrissey

U. Oklahoma

The Assimilation, Analysis and Dissemination of Pacific Rain Gauge Data: PACRAIN

 

Ships of Opportunity

 

Dean Roemmich

UCSD SIO

SIO High Resolution XBT Transects

 

 

Gustavo Goni

NOAA AOML

The Ship of Opportunity Program (SOOP)

 

Argo Profiling Floats

 

Dean Roemmich

UCSD SIO; U. Washington, WHOI, NOAA AOML, NOAA PMEL

The Argo Project: Global Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability

 

Ocean Carbon Networks

 

Richard Feely

NOAA PMEL; NOAA AOML

Global Repeat Hydrographic/CO2/Tracer surveys in Support of CLIVAR and Global Cycle objectives: Carbon Inventories and Fluxes

 

 

Rik Wanninkhof

NOAA AOML; NOAA PMEL, Columbia U. LDEO, BIOS, RSMAS

Surface Water pCO2 Measurements from Ships

 

 

Christopher Sabine

NOAA PMEL

High-Resolution Ocean and Atmosphere pCO2Time-Series Measurements

 

 

Jeremy Mathis

NOAA PMEL; NOAA AOML

Global Carbon Data Management and Synthesis Project

 

Technology Development

 

Christian Meinig

NOAA PMEL

Development of a Next Generation Platform and Instrumentation for Continuous Ocean Observations (PICO) for Reducing the Costs of Observations

 

 

Ulises Rivero

NOAA AOML

Development of an “Adaptable Bottom Instrument Information Shuttle System” (ABIISS): AOML Data Pod System

 

Ocean Analysis

 

Huai-Min Zhang

NOAA NCDC

In Situ and Satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Analyses

 

 

Gregory Johnson

NOAA PMEL; JPL

Development of Global Heat and Freshwater Anomaly Analyses

 

 

Molly Baringer

NOAA AOML

Meridional Heat Transport Variability in the Atlantic Ocean

 

 

Allison Allen

NOAA CO-OPS

Sea Level Analysis: NOAA’s Tide Station Network

 

 

Rick Lumpkin

NOAA AOML

Evaluating the Ocean Observing System: Surface Currents

 

 

Lisan Yu

WHOI

Global Ocean Surface Heat Flux Analysis

 

 

Mark Bourassa

FSU COAPS

Climate Variability in Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes

 

 

Keith Rodgers

Princeton U.; NOAA GFDL

Using Models to Improve our Ability to Monitor
Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic Carbon

 

 

Arun Kumar

NOAA NCEP CPC

Climate Prediction Center Analyses and Monitoring in Support of the Ocean Observing System for Climate

 

 

David Behringer

NOAA NCEP EMC

Development of Enhanced Ocean Climate Products

 

 

Tony Rosati

NOAA GFDL

Ocean Data Assimilation Research at GFDL

 

 

D.E. Harrison

NOAA PMEL

Observing System Research Studies: Climate Phenomena and Impacts

 

 

Igor Kamenkovich

U. Miami RSMAS

Simulation of the Argo Observing System

 

Data Management

 

Steven Hankin

NOAA PMEL; NOAA NDBC, NOAA NGDC

The Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC)

 

 

Sydney Levitus

NOAA NODC

World Ocean Database Development

 

 

Shawn Smith

FSU COAPS

U.S. Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Assembly Center

 

 

William Burnett

NOAA NDBC

NDBC OceanSITES Global Data Assembly Center

 

 

Huai-Min Zhang

NOAA NCDC

Ocean Data Management at NCDC: From Ingest to Archive, Blended Products and Data Services

 

 

T. Bruce Applegate

UCSD SIO

NOAA Support for the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office at UCSD/SIO

 

 

Sathyendranath, S.

Bedford Inst. of Oceanography; Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), Cruise Information Database & POGO Secretariat Activities

 

 

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