International CLIVAR Project Office
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Atlantic Implementation Panel
Modes of Climate Variability in the Atlantic Sector. The figure on the right shows the path and strength of winter storms depending on the sign of the NAO; the location of tropical rainfal (determined by the ITCZ); and the transport of the ocean currents (MOC). Blue arrows:cold, deep currents; red arrows:warm surface currents (source: M. Visbeck, 2002; Science 297, 2223-2224)
News and Highlights
AMOC open science meeting, 4-6 May 2009, Annapolis USA
Report available for the Tropical Atlantic Meeting and PIRATA-14 SSC Session, February 2009, Toulouse FRANCE
9th Session of the Atlantic Implementation Panel, 18-19 September 2008, Woods Hole USA
Monitoring system for heat and mass transports in the South Atlantic as a component of the MOC, workshop report now available
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