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Describing, Understanding, and Predicting Oceanic Variations Associated with Tropical Atlantic Variability and The North Atlantic Oscillation

Project Leader:
Dr. Dake Chen

Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Dake Chen

Locations: Earth

Special Locations:
Tropical oceans

Description:
The goals in the first year of this multi-institute research project are data collection, processing, and analysis. At LDEO, we extended our objectives to include preliminary numerical experiments to evaluate the effects of anomalous precipitation on tropical ocean modeling and to explore the uncertainty of surface buoyancy forcing.

EI Unit:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Cross Cutting Themes:
Climate and Society

Core Disciplines:
Earth Sciences

Funding Agency:
NOAA

Last Modified: 12-31-1969