Works towards the quantitative and physical understanding of ocean circulation and its variability, water mass formation, atmosphere-ocean interactions, atmospheric and oceanic disturbances through observations, experiments, and theory.
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Ocean Circulation Section
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Main themes
- Variability of upper ocean circulation in the Pacific
- Observation and dynamics of Pacific intermediate and deep
circulations and mixing
- Long-term variations of climate, ocean and ecosystem
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Research staff
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Dynamic Marine Meteorology Section
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Main themes
- The Atmospheric General Circulation
- Development of a global cloud resolving model (NICAM) and study of numerical schemes
- Dynamics of convective clouds and their organization
- Atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers
- Laboratory experiments on atmospheric and oceanic disturbances
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Research staff
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Ocean Variability Dynamics Section
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Main themes
- Observation of temporal variability of deep currents
- Numerical modeling of deep circulation
- Direct measurements of internal gravity waves and turbulent heat fluxes in high latitude seas in the Northern Hemisphere
- Mooring observation of sea-ice thickness and oceanic heat transfer in the Arctic Ocean
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Research staff
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