| Contact |
Project Name and
Website |
Summary
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Project Status |
Data Information |
A.Naveira-Garabato,
S. Bacon,
R. Saunders, A. Watson, D. Bakker, M. Meredith and C. Ballentine
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ANDREX (Antarctic Deep Water Rates of Export) |
ANDREX involves completing a hydro/ADCP/CFC/SF6/helium+tritium/oxy/nuts/carbon section along the northern edge of the Weddell gyre.
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/ooc/PROJECTS/andrex/index.php |
Funded.
There will be 2 ANDREX cruises, Dec2008-Jan 2009 (JC30) and a follow-up cruise in March-April 2010 (JR239). |
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| S. Ackley |
Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) |
SIMBA will involve deploying ice drifters and mass balance buoys that will continue to operate for 1-2 years after deployment and also an array of under ice ARGO floats plus making insitu and satellite measurements of sea ice, ocean atmosphere and biology. |
Start Sept.-Oct 2007 |
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| D. Ho et al |
GasEx (Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 exchange study) III |
The ultimate goal of this study is to be able to quantify transfer velocities on a regional scale from remote sensing such that, combined with regional sea-air CO2 partial pressures, improved global air-sea
CO2 fluxes can be determined.
A Southern Ocean gas Exchange experiment (GasEx III) will take place in the southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.
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Planned for Jan 2008.
SEE NEW WEBSITE for up-to-date information
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| N.
Metzl |
OISO
project (Ocean Indien Service d'Observations) |
Aims to identify
and quantify the seasonal and interannual variations of oceans CO2
sources and sinks and the variations of anthropogenic CO2 in the
southwest Indian Ocean including the Southern sector of the Indian
Ocean.
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Established 1998.
Multiyear project projected to at least 2008. |
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| D. Ruiz-Pino, A.Piola, G.
Ferreyra, A. Poisson |
ARGUA |
Established in 2000, aims to quantify the variations in
sources and sinks of CO2 in the
south Atlantic sector.
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Contact D. Ruiz-Pino |
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| S. Speich and
others |
GOODHOPE website |
GOODHOPE aims to
establish a programme of regular and appropriate observations (XBT,
CTD, floats etc.) along the SR2 between South Africa and Antarctica.
The objectives of this are to gain a better understanding of the
Indian-Atlantic interocean exchanges (including their effect on the
climate of the African continent); to monitor the variability of the
Southern Ocean frontal systems; and to study the local air-sea heat
exchanges and their role in the global heat budget. |
HR XBTs lines, yearly CTDs, 15 to 20 ARGO ploats deployed every year, surface drifters
Contact S. Speich
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| D.
Bromwich |
RIME (Antarctic
Regional Interaction Meteorology Experiment) |
RIME will explore
in detail the atmospheric processes over Antarctica and their
interactions with lower latitudes via the Ross sea sector, as a
prerequisite to exploring the role of Antarctica in global climate
variations. Local and regional measurements made during the austral
summers of 2006/07, 2007/08, and 2008/09 will be complemented by an
extensive numerical modeling effort to accurately simulate and
understand transports of heat, water vapor, momentum and mass to and
from Antarctica along with their modification by the topographic and
mesoscale processes. Strong international collaborations will be a
hallmark of Antarctic RIME that will span June 2003 to June 2012.
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2005-2007.
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| L. Talley, T. Chereskin, R. Fine, A.Dickson, B. Sloyan |
SAMFLOC
(Subantarctic Mixed Layers, Fluxes and Overturning
Circulation) |
Study to observe
the balance of processes forming the deep mixed layers directly north
of the SAF in the southeast Pacific.
Study includes
winter and summer hydrographic/ XBT/ ADCP survey with carbon and
CFCs
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Study period:
2004-2010.
Both cruises for SAMFLOC were completed in March 2006.
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Data will remain proprietary for 2 years (NSF core funded proposal) |
| J. Ledwell, S. Gille, K. Speer, B. Owens, J. Toole, J. Girton, B. Owens,J. LaCasce, A. Naveira Garabato, H. Bryden, K. Heywood, M. Inall, B. King, M. Meredith, M-J, Messias, E. Shuckburgh, D. Smeed, D. Stevens, A. Watson |
DIMES (Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean). Also click here for a summary document |
The experiment
will measure diapycnal diffusivity and isopycnal mixing, fine- and
micro structure, stirring and eddy fluxes of potential vorticity and
heat in the Southern Ocean in the region of the ACC, between
approximately 110 W and 30 W. The magnitude of the fluxes will be
measured and parameterizations of how these fluxes depend on
variables accessible to numerical models will be tested and
refined.
Will include
microstructure surveys, floats, tracer release, hydrographic surveys,
and modelling. |
Funded |
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| E.
Fahrbach |
Weddell Sea
Convection Control (WECCON) |
Large scale
processes and long-term variations of convection in the Weddell Sea.
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Ongoing
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| R. Morrow, N. Metzl, G.
Madec, S. Speich, K. Speer |
FLOSTRAL
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The main
objective of the FLOSTRAL project is to further understand the
mechanisms that govern the circulation of SAMW/STMW, and how their
water mass characteristics are modified during that circulation. With
this aim, an essential element of the FLOSTRAL project is to
establish a network of PROVOR profiling drifters in the southern
Indian Ocean. |
Funded |
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| M.Fedak, M. Biuw,
M.Meredith |
SEaOS (Southern
Elephant Seals as Oceanographic Samplers) |
SEaOS is an
international and inter-disciplinary program aimed at providing
accurate temperature and salinity data from the Southern Ocean using
specially developed instruments deployed on southern elephant
seals. |
Ongoing |
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| K. Heywood, S.
Thorpe |
ADELIE (Antarctic Drifter Experiment: Links to Isobaths and Ecosystems) |
Project consists of a CTD/LADCP section at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and the launch some (~20) surface drifters and Argo floats (~4). The cruise is taking place in Feb 2007. The CTD section will be across the continental shelf and slope in the NW Weddell, and just into the deep water, following the WOCE SR4 line, about 17 stations only. |
Underway
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| A. Naveira, K. Heywood, D. Stevens
(UK)
K. Polzin, B.
Sloyan, R. Ferrari (US)
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SOFINE (Kerguelen Mixing Experiment) |
Will look at
deep ocean mixing on the northern flank of the Kerguelen Plateau.
Will take microstructure measurements (in collaboration with Kurt
Polzin) and a CTD/LADCP survey of the standing meander in the ACC
here. Plus moorings for a few weeks/months. |
Funded.
US component as
yet unfunded.
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| C.
Genthon |
CLACIO
CLIM |
The main
objective of GLACIOCLIM is to monitor and understand the variability
and evolution of the surface mass balance of the ice sheet in the
region of Dumont d'Urville station (140E,66.4S). Measured parameters
are surface mass balance and surface meteorology. |
Funded |
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| V. Rupolo, G. Budillon, D. Iudicone |
CANOPO |
CANOPO will
attempt to address the issue of quantifying the CO2
air-sea fluxes in the western part South Atlantic. Surface physical
and biogeochemical parameters such as CO2 partial pressure
and simultaneous temperature vertical profiles in a transect
intersecting the main temperature fronts will be monitored. OGSMs
will also be used. |
First cruise Jan 2005, next cruise austral summer 2007 |
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| A. Gordon, A. Bergamasco |
Ross Sea Time
Series Site |
Position:
71.5° S, 172.5° E
Sustained
observations from moored arrays of current/CTP recorders and
profilers will describe the interannual variability in the
thermohaline structure and source strength of new deep and bottom
waters sinking in the Ross Sea. Time series would tentatively
start in 2007 during the International Polar Year. Repeat
hydrographic sections will be occupied across the northwestern Ross
Gyre and around a mooring array off Cape Adare, an accessible site
where the collective outflow of Ross Sea Bottom Water can be accessed
during the austral summer.
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Planned field
work to start in 2007 during the International Polar Year; pilot
AnSlope field work (2003-2005) funded by NSF. |
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