Integrated transports

Timeseries

12-hourly, 10-day low pass filtered transport timeseries starting on April 2nd 2004 for

• MOC transport in the top 1000m
• Mid-ocean transport in the top 1000m
• Ekman transports based on Quickscat wind
• Gulf Stream from cable measurements
• Thermocline recirculation in the top 800m
• intermediate transport between
  800 and 1100m
• North Atlantic deep water (NADW) between
  1100 and 3000m
• NADW between 3000 and 5000m
• Antarctic bottom water below 5000m

Figure 1: Transport timeseries from April 2004 to December 2010 (MOC (Red), mid-ocean (pink), Ekman (black) and Gulf Stream (blue)).

Details about the calculation of the transport timeseries can be found in Cunningham et al. (2007).

The data for the transport series are available in NETCDF,
Matlab or ASCII format.

Download Data (last update: 12/12/2011)

Data format	Temporal coverage: April 2004 - December 2010
NETCDF	moc_transports.nc
Matlab	moc_transports.mat
ASCII	moc_transports.ascii

More details about the datafiles are given in the following README file.

Vertical MOC transport profiles

12-hourly, 2-day low pass filtered vertical MOC profiles starting on April 2nd 2004.

Figure 2: Vertical MOC structure from April 2004 to December 2010.

Download Data (last update: 12/12/2011)

Data format	Temporal coverage: April 2004 - December 2010
NETCDF	moc_vertical.nc

Heat transport

The heat flux can be downloaded on RSMAS data page:
www.rsmas.miami.edu/users/mocha/index.htm.

Figure 3: From Johns et al. 2010. Time series of (top) meridional heat transport and (bottom) maximum value of the meridional overturning
streamfunction. Light lines show the total variability; heavy lines show the variability attributable to the geostrophic circulation,
fter the direct influence of Ekman transport fluctuations are removed. Vertical MOC structure from April 2004 to October 2007.




How to acknowledge data from the RAPID-WATCH project:

Data from RAPID-WATCH MOC monitoring project are made freely available to the public. The project scientists would appreciate it if you added the following acknowledgment to any publications that use this data:

"Data from the RAPID-WATCH MOC monitoring project are funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and are freely available from www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapidmoc."

The project scientists would also appreciate it if you informed us of any publications or presentations that you prepare using this data. Continued funding of this project depends on us being able to justify the usefulness of the data to the Natural Environment Research Council.