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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
A project to establish a network of underwater observatories within the depths of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. A 2000 mile network of fiber optic cable will provide power and communications to the scientific instruments. NEPTUNE will be located in the northeastern Pacific and will be spatially associated with the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate.
Industry:Earth science
A project to establish a universally available digital hydrographic database for the Arctic Ocean for analysis of climate–related processes and variability, and to provide a dataset suitable for the initialization and verification of Arctic climate and circulation models.
Industry:Earth science
A project to study the mixing of ocean water on the continental shelf, and the effect of the mixing on the transmission of light through the water.
Industry:Earth science
A project to use a Lagrangian trajectory method to investigate the North Atlantic and Mediterranean water mass circulation as they result from numerical simulations of the global ocean. The major goals of the project are to investigate:
the origin and formation of NADW;
the fate and transformation of NADW;
the Mediterrean Water mass circulation; and
the Lagrangian trajectory methods to be used. The OCCAM, OPA and GIM circulation models will be used in the investigation.
Industry:Earth science
A project under which various European sea level activities are coordinated. The objectives of EOSS include:
optimization of tide gauge networks;
implementation of geodetic fixing of all relevant tide gauge benchmarks;
establishment of a regional sea level monitoring network;
data production for the determination of detailed spatial patterns of sea level rise;
improvement of tidal modeling capabilities;
a better understanding of the climatological contributions to sea level rise; and
improvement of flood warning capabilities.
Industry:Earth science
A project which aims to provide a quality controlled data set of surface, atmospheric and cloud parameters over a time period and at a resolution not available from any other source. The data are derived from NASA AVHRR GAC level 1b data products, with over 13,000 of these products having been processed.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose aim is to assess and improve the performance of coupled global atmosphere–sea ice–ocean models in reproducing sea ice in the high southern latitudes.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose aim is to build a high resolution model of the world ocean. The OCCAM model is a primitive equation model of the global ocean based on the GFDL MOM version of the Bryan–Cox–Semtner ocean model 300 with the addition of a free surface and improved advection schemes. It uses a regular latitude–longitude grid for the Pacific, Indian and South Atlantic Oceans and a rotated grid for the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans to overcome the singularity found at the North Pole in other models. The two grids are connected with a channel model through the Bering Strait.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose goal is to study natural and anthropogenic climate forcing by aerosols and feedbacks on regional and global climate. It will incorporoate field studies where pristine air masses from the southern Indian Ocean including Antarctica and not– so–clean air from the Indian subcontinent meet over the tropical Indian Ocean to provide a unique natural laboratory for studying aerosols.
Industry:Earth science
A project whose goal is to use the Autosub AUV to investigate the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZE), and to assess the potential of AUVs for improving acoustic estimates of the biomass of fisheries resources.
Industry:Earth science
