AOML oceanographers, Greg Foltz, Claudia Schmid, and Rick Lumpkin released a new and enhanced set of daily time series for the tropical Atlantic upper ocean temperature, salinity, and velocity, and standard meteorological fields. This new dataset (ePIRATA) is fully described in the newly accepted paper in Journal of Climate and can be accessed through ePIRATA homepage. Full story>>
AOML Oceanographer Sang-Ki Lee and his colleagues used an ocean and sea-ice coupled model to show that ocean dynamics played key role in Antarctica's sea ice changes during past decades. This research* was selected as an Editor's highlight for the Journal of Geophysical Research. Full story>>