Sea Mammal Research Unit, Sea Mammal Research Unit

Sea Mammal Research Unit,

• Sea Mammal Research Unit,

• University St. Andrews, UK,

• British Antarctic Survey

• Courtesy M. Meredith

MIT Darwin Project (Follows et al.); drive biogeochemical model offline (N. Gruber).

• MIT Darwin Project (Follows et al.); drive biogeochemical model offline (N. Gruber).

• marine ecosystem modeling; ocean biogeochemical cycle

• CLIMODE: CLIvar MOe Water Dynamic Experiment (Marshall et al.)

• Investigation of sub-tropical 18o mode water formation dynamics

• CODAE: Central California ODAE (C. Edwards, UCSC)

• Study of the Monterey Bay & Central California coast circulation

• Sub-polar North Atlantic gyre & tropical Pacific circulation (F. Schott, Geomar, Kiel)

• Long-term biogeochemical tracer calculations (S. Khatiwala, LDEO)

• Transport matrix (Jacobian) approach

• Mean Dynamic Topography uncertainties (F. Fossepoel, IMAU, Utrecht)

• Uncertainty estimate in preparation of the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite mission

• Ocean circulation magnetic field signals (Manoj et al., GFZ, Potsdam)

• “Liming” the ocean inceases CO2 absorption (D. Harvey, U. Toronto)

• Uses upwelling velocities to investigate pCO2 inceases in response to CaCO3

• Thermodynamic analysis of ocean circulation (N. Wienders, FSU; J. Nycander, MISU, Sweden)

• Streamfunction-based calculations of MOC energetics

• Ocean mass changes and Earth rotation (B. Gross et al., IERS/SBO & JPL)

• Global instability calculations (Shafer Smith, NYU)

• Global gravitational model development (N. Pavlis, SGT)

• Sponsored in part by GRACE and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

• Vortex calculations (P. Poncet, INSA, Toulouse)

• Use of ocean mixed layer depths (N. Cassar, Princeton University)

• Initializing climate prediction (Cazes-Boezio et al. 2007, Yulaeva et al., 2007)

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