US AMOC Research Activities
PIs |
Project |
Sponsor |
Duration |
Molly Baringer (NOAA/AOML) |
State of the Climate: Quarterly Reports on the Meridional Heat Transport in the Atlantic Ocean |
NOAA |
Jun 2005 − Ongoing |
Molly Baringer (NOAA/AOML) |
NOAA |
Jun 2005 − Ongoing |
|
Nicholas Bates (BIOS) |
NSF |
Apr 2012 − |
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Amy Bower (WHOI) |
NSF |
Oct 2009 − |
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Grant Branstator (NCAR) |
DOE |
Sep 2010 − |
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Martha Buckley (George Mason U.) |
Identifying Mechanisms of AMOC Variability in ECCO State Estimates and CMIP5 Models |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
James Carton (U. Maryland) |
Using Ocean Data Assimilation to Explore Arctic/Subarctic Climate Variability |
NSF |
Sep 2012 − |
Claudia Cenedese (WHOI) |
NSF |
Nov 2014 − |
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Paola Cessi (UCSD/SIO) |
Pulling the Meridional Overturning Circulation from the South |
DOE |
Sep 2010 − |
Ping Chang (Texas A&M) |
NOAA |
Sep 2011 − |
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Ping Chang (Texas A&M) |
Understanding Changes in the AMOC during the 20th Century Using IPCC AR5 Model Ensembles |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
Alan Condron (U. Massachusetts) |
High-Resolution Model Development to Quantify the Impact of Icebergs on the Stability of the AMOC |
DOE |
Sep 2011 − |
Ruth Curry (WHOI) |
Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transport Experiment (DynAMITE) |
NSF |
Nov 2009 − |
Gokhan Danabasoglu (NCAR) |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
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Gokhan Danabasoglu (NCAR) |
NSF |
Mar 2013 − |
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Marieke Femke de Jong (WHOI) |
Pathways to the Denmark Strait Overflow: A Lagrangian Study in the Iceland Sea |
NSF |
Sep 2013 − |
Kathleen Donohue (U. Rhode Island) |
NSF |
Sep 2008 − |
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Alexey Fedorov (Yale U.) |
DOE |
Sep 2011 − |
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Sarah Gille (UCSD/SIO) |
Assessing Unstoppable Change: Ocean Heat Storage and Antarctic Glacial Ice Melt |
NOAA |
Aug 2010 − |
Gustavo Goni (NOAA/AOML) |
NASA |
Jan 2013 − |
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Gustavo Goni (NOAA/AOML) |
The Ship of Opportunity Program |
NOAA |
Ongoing |
Ben Harden (WHOI) |
NSF |
Sep 2014 − |
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Patrick Heimbach (MIT) |
An Eddy-Permitting Arctic and Sub-Polar State Estimate for Climate Research |
NSF |
Sep 2010 − |
Patrick Heimbach (MIT) |
NOAA |
Aug 2010 − |
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Aixue Hu (NCAR) |
DOE |
Jan 2013 − |
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Bill Johns (U. Miami) |
NSF |
Apr 2003 − |
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Kathryn Kelly (U. Washington) |
The Contributions of Ocean Circulation to North Atlantic SST |
NASA |
Feb 2010 − |
Kathryn Kelly (U. Washington) |
NASA |
Oct 2008 − |
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Kathryn Kelly (U. Washington) |
Sources and Impacts of Variability of the Meridional Property Transports in the Atlantic Ocean |
NASA |
Jan 2013 − |
Sergey Kravtsov (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) |
Decadal Variability of Interacting Climate Subsystems in the Northern Hemisphere |
NSF |
Jul 2014 − |
Felix Landerer (Cal Tech/JPL) |
Variability of the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
NASA |
Jan 2013 − |
Craig Lee (U. Washington) |
The Arctic Observing Network at Critical Gateways—A Sustained Observing System at Davis Strait |
NSF |
Sep 2010 − |
Susan Lozier (Duke U.) |
NSF |
Sep 2013 − |
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Christopher Meinen (NOAA/AOML) |
NOAA |
Oct 2008 − Ongoing |
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Ceclie Penland (NOAA/ESRL) |
Variability, Stochastic Dynamics, and Compensating Model Errors of the AMOC in Coupled IPCC Models |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
Renellys Perez (U. Miami; NOAA/AOML) |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
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Renellys Perez (U. Miami; NOAA/AOML) |
NOAA |
Apr 2014 − |
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Robert Pickart (WHOI) |
Denmark Straight Overflow Water: A New Paradigm for the Origin of the Deep Western Boundary Current |
NSF |
Dec 2010 − |
Robert Pickart (WHOI) |
NSF |
May 2013 − |
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Peter Rhines (U. Washington) |
NSF |
Sep 2010 − |
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Peter Rhines (U. Washington) |
NASA |
Jan 2013 − |
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Thomas Rossby (U. Rhode Island) |
NSF |
Aug 2011 − |
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Irina Rypina (WHOI) |
Transport Pathways in the North Atlantic: Searching for Throughput |
NSF |
Mar 2012 − |
Claudia Schmid (NOAA/AOML) |
Transport in the Upper Branch of the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
NOAA |
Aug 2014 − |
Andreas Schmittner (Oregon State U.) |
Modeling Effects of Greenland Ice Sheet Melting on AMOC Variability and Predictability |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
Uwe Send (UCSD/SIO) |
NOAA |
Jun 2005 − Ongoing |
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Michael Spall (WHOI) |
Forced Transients in Water Mass Transformation and the Meridional Overturning |
NSF |
Sep 2012 − |
Michael Spall (WHOI) |
Mechanisms of Freshwater Exchange Acress the East Greenland Shelf |
NSF |
Sep 2014 − |
Fiamma Straneo (WHOI) |
From Rivers to the Ocean: The Dynamics of Freshwater Export from Hudson Strait |
NSF |
Apr 2008 − |
Fiamma Straneo (WHOI) |
Glacier-Ocean Coupling in a Large East Greenland Fjord |
NSF |
Aug 2009 − |
Zoltan Szuts (U. Washington) |
NSF |
Mar 2014 − |
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John Toole (WHOI) |
NSF |
May 2003 − |
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John Toole (WHOI) |
NSF |
Mar 2014 − |
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Anastasios Tsonis (U. Wisconsin-Mikwaukee) |
DOE |
Sep 2011 − |
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Edward Vizy (U. Texas-Austin) |
NASA |
Apr 2014 − |
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Chunzai Wang (NOAA/AOML) |
NOAA |
Sep 2011 − |
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Xiao-Hai Yan (U. Delaware) |
Satellite Multi-Sensor Studies of Deep Ocean Convection in the North Atlantic Ocean |
NASA |
Mar 2009 − |
Jianjun Yin (U. Arizona) |
Signature of the AMOC in the North Atlantic Dynamic Sea Level |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − |
Rong Zhang (NOAA/GFDL) |
Impact of AMOC on Arctic Sea Ice and Atmospheric Heat Transport into the Arctic |
NOAA |
Sep 2013 − ongoing |
Rong Zhang (NOAA/GFDL) |
NOAA |
Jun 2013 − ongoing |