March 2020

Global Carbon Data Management and Synthesis Project Period of Activity: 01 October 2018 – 30 September 2019 Principal Investigators: Brendan Carter, NOAA Pacific Environmental Laboratory & Rik Wannikhof, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Metoerological Laboratory Project Summary 1.1. Project justification Over the past two and a half centuries, the surface oceans have absorbed approximately 30% of […]

Observing System Monitoring Center Period of Activity: 01 October 2018 – 30 September 2019 Principal Investigator: Eugene Burger, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Project Summary The Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC) 1 project exists to join the discrete “networks” of in situ ocean observing platforms — ships, surface floats, profiling floats, tide gauges, etc. –

Climate Variability in Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes Period of Activity: 01 October 2018 – 30 September 2019 Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark A. Bourassa, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Project Summary Florida State University (FSU) produces monthly in-situ fields of surface winds (the ‘FSU Winds’) for the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. We are developing a