Project Leader:
Professor Arnold Gordon
Earth Institute Contact: Professor Arnold Gordon
Locations: Southern Ocean
Description:
Section 1 Research Goals: To understand through observations and to assess model ability to simulate, the global scale ocean circulation that is associated or possibly promotes climate change.
Section 2 Research Goals: Install and maintain three deep and bottom water focused moorings south of the South Orkney Islands in the Northwest Weddell Sea to provide a time series of the combined outflow (currents and temperature/salinity) of Antarctic Bottom Water drawn from various sites within the Weddell Sea. As the time series is compiled, it will be examined for indications of climate variability on sub-decadal time scales. A section of CTD/tracer stations is reoccupied during the service cruises as time and conditions permit. We rely on opportunistic scheduling of vessel time provided by a variety of sources, so timing of cruises for maintaining the moorings is approximate. Research goals remain flexible so we can take advantage of ship time opportunities as they arise.
EI Unit:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Cross Cutting Themes:
Water
Core Disciplines:
Earth Sciences
Funding Agency:
NOAA
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