Earth Sciences: Oceanography: Projects

a cooperative effort to generate a unified data set and to determine the global distribution and inventories of inorganic nutrients, both natural and anthropogenic carbon species and natural and bomb-produced radiocarbon from data acquired from several projects such as WOCE, JGOFS, OACES.

The overall aim of this project is to explore, simulate and design an acoustic concept for long-term monitoring of the ocean temperature and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean for global warming detection.

ADP is run by Blue World, a non-profit NGO dedicated to the preservation of the marine ecosystem. It focuses particularly on research and conservation of bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea, but also aims at protecting whole marine environment through research, conservation and education activities.

A research project investigating the way the sea and the atmosphere exchange greenhouse gases.

consists of measurements from coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure stations, together with an ongoing research programme in satellite altimetry in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans.

Concentrating on the understanding of Arctic Ocean variability and change including sea ice processes.

Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that will measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean in or near real-time. The programme involves a team of International scientists.

will establish a network of European researchers involved in geochemical and biological processes in the deep sea of the Atlantic. The network will be used for the exchange of biogeochemical benthic data and aims at integrating present knowledge of processes at the deep sea floor.

The programme undertakes biological, chemical and physical oceanographic research during the annual return passage of the RRS James Clark Ross from the UK to the Falkland Islands in September and from the Falklands to the UK in May. During the first phase of the project (1995 to 1999), twelve research cruises took place, providing a coherent set of repeated measurements over ocean basin scales. A second phase of the project is now underway, and will include six cruises between 2002 and 2005. These will sample further into the centre of the North and South Atlantic Ocean and along the north-west coast of Africa.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre is responsible for the management of data sets arising from the AMT programme. The role is to assemble quality-controlled data from all cruises into a relational database, so that spatial and temporal links between multiple parameters are maintained.