Related Papers
Haines et.al. (2012): Transports and budgets in a 1/4° global ocean reanalysis 1989-2010. doi:10.5194/osd-9-261-2012
Ortega et.al. (2011): Processes governing the predictability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a coupled GCM. doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1025-1
Hawkins (2011): Estimating climatically relevant singular vectors for decadal predictions of the Atlantic Ocean. doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3579.1
Smith et.al. (2010): Impact of hydrographic data assimilation on the modelled Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. doi:10.5194/os-6-7
Hawkins and Sutton (2010): Estimating climatically relevant singular vectors for decadal predictions of the Atlantic Ocean. doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3579.1
Hawkins and Sutton (2009): The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2607.1
VALOR: Value of the RAPID array for climate predictions
PI: Rowan Sutton, NCAS, University of Reading
VALOR investigates how including data from the arrays into the initial conditions used for decadal climate modelling may improve predictions, particularly the state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The project will assimilate data from RAPID and other observations into ocean models to produce "syntheses" - best guess data sets of past ocean state. Similar syntheses will also be produced without RAPID observations.
Both types of sytheses will then be used to decadal forecasts. By comparing the climate model simulations starting with and without the RAPID-WATCH observations, it is possible to assess the impact of data from the RAPID-WATCH array on climate predictions.
Atlantic meridional overturning relationships in HiGEM. Left: Density (800-3000m) correlated with boundary density at 40N. Right: Temporal variation in overturning and density index.
Link to Project Home Page
Related Links
RAPID-WATCH Science Plan
Scientific background, strategic context, objectives,
RAPID-WATCH Work Plan
Deliverables, collaborations, knowledge exchange, data management, programme management, time table.
Project Home Pages
RAPID MOC
Monitoring the Meridional overturning circulation at 26°N
RAPID WAVE
Monitoring the variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current
VALOR
The Value of the RAPID array for decadal climate predictions
RAPIT
RAPID Risk Assessment, Probability and Impacts Team
RAPID THC MIP
Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related climate change: Model Intercomparison Project
