The Ocean's Role in Global Change: Progress of Major Research Programs (1994)

William Merrell

Chairman, Ocean Studies Board

Texas A&M University

5007 Avenue U

Galveston, TX 77551

Tel: (409) 740-5732

Fax: (409) 740-7934

E-mail: W.MERRELL (Omnet)

Ocean Studies Board Office

HA-594

National Research Council

2001 Constitution Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20418

Tel: (202) 334-2714

Fax: (202) 334-2530

E-mail: M.KATSOUROS (Omnet)

National Research Council. The Ocean's Role in Global Change: The Contemporary System—An Overview of Major Research Programs. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1990. 10 pp.

National Research Council. Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1992, 202 pp.

Workshop on the Economic Impact of ENSO Forecasts on the American, Australian, and Asian Continents. August 11–13, 1992, The FSU Conference Center, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. 1993.

Melbourne G. Briscoe

U.S. GOOS International Ad Hoc Working Group, Chairman

Office of Ocean and Earth Sciences

NOAA, National Ocean Service

1305 East-West Highway, SSMC4 Station 6616

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tel: (301) 713-2981

Fax: (301) 713-4392

The Global Climate Observing System. A Proposal Prepared by an Ad Hoc Group, convened by the chairman of the Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme at Winchester, UK, 14–15 January, 1991. The Meteorological Office, Bracknell, UK, 1991. 21 pp.

Global Ocean Observing System. Resolution XVI-8 of the Sixteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris, 7–21 March, 1991, in: IOC-SC/MD/97.

Global Ocean Observing Systems Workshop Report. September 10–12, 1990 Alexandria, Va. 115 pp.

Toward a Global Ocean Observing System. D. James Baker, in: Oceanus, Vol 34, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 76–83. Woods Hole, MA.

A Global Ocean Observing System. Dana Kester, Gunnar Kullenberg, and Muriel Cole, in: Nature and Resources, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1992, pp. 26–34. UNESCO.

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS): Responding to the Need for Climate Observations. An Introduction, April 1992, Joint Scientific and Technical Committee, GCOS. WMO No. 777, 1992, Geneva. 12 pp plus covers.

First Steps Toward a U.S. GOOS. Report of a Workshop on Priorities for U.S. contributions to a Global Ocean Observing system. Woods Hole, Mass., 14–16 October 1992. 54 pp.

Global Ocean Observing System. Status Report on Existing ocean Elements and Related systems. IOC/INF-902, Paris, December 1992. 77 pp.

Interim Design for the Ocean Component of a Global Climate Observing System. Ocean Observing System Development Panel, February 1993, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex. 105 pp.

The Approach to GOOS. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, IOC-XVII/8 Annex 2 rev., Paris, 12 March 1993. 19 pp.

The Approach to the Global Ocean Observing System. Wolfgang Scherer, Albert Tolkachev, Gunnar Kullenberg, and Muriel Cole, in: WMO Bulletin, Vol 42, No. 2, April 1993, pp. 118–123. Geneva.

In Preparation:

U.S. National Report on Contributions to the Global Ocean Observing System. For presentation in April 1994 to the IOC Committee for GOOS, Melbourne, Australia.

Global Ocean Observing System. Special Issue of Oceanus, Fall 1994.

Kenneth Mooney

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Office of Global Programs

1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1225

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tel: (301) 427-2089

Fax: (301) 427-2082

E-mail: K.MOONEY (Omnet)

Edward Sarachik

Department of Atmospheric Sciences, AK-40

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

Tel: (206) 543-6720

Fax: (206) 685-3397

E-mail: E.SARACHIK (Omnet)

National Research Council. El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: A Scientific Plan. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1983. 72 pp.

World Climate Research Program. Scientific Plan for the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Programme. WCRP Publication Series No. 3. 1985

National Research Council. U.S. Participation in the TOGA Program: A Research Strategy. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1986. 213 pp.

U.S. TOGA/COARE Science Working Group. TOGA/COARE Science Plan. 1989.

U.S. TOGA. Workshop Report: Ocean Observing System: Midlife Progress Review and Recommendations for Continuation. Nova University Press, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. October 1989.

National Research Council. TOGA: A Review of Progress and Future Opportunities. 66 pp. 1990.

World Climate Research Program. International TOGA Scientific Conference Proceedings. Invited papers from the conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 1990. World Climate Research Program, WCRP-43 (WMO/TD-No. 379). 1990.

World Climate Research Programme. CLIVAR: A Study of Climate Variability and Predictability. 33 pp. 1992.

National Research Council. Ocean-Atmosphere Observations Supporting Short-Term Climate Prediction. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1994.

National Research Council. Report by the Climate Research Committee in preparation.

Piers Chapman

U.S. WOCE Director

U.S. WOCE Office

TAMU/OCGN

College Station, TX 77843-3146

Tel: 409-845-8194

Fax: 409-845-0888

Eric J. Lindstrom

Program Scientist

U.S. WOCE Interagency Office

1825 I St. N.W.

Suite 400

Washington, D.C. 20006

Tel: 202-429-2039

Fax: 202-857-5219

Worth D. Nowlin, Jr.

Science Steering Committee, Co-Chairperson

U.S. WOCE Office

TAMU/OCGN

College Station, TX 77843-3146

Tel: 409-845-3720

Fax: 409-847-8879

U.S. WOCE, U.S. Contribution to WOCE Core Project 1: The Program Design for the Indian Ocean, 80 pp., U.S. WOCE Office, College Station, Tex., 1993.

U.S. WOCE Implementation Plan 1992, U.S. WOCE Implementation Record No. 4, 110 pp., U.S. WOCE Office, College Station, Tex., 1992.

U.S. WOCE Implementation Plan 1993, U.S. WOCE Implementation Record No. 5, 146 pp., U.S. WOCE Office, College Station, Tex., 1993.

Hugh D. Livingston

U.S. JGOFS Planning Office

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, MA 02543

Tel: (508) 457-2000 x2454

E-mail: hlivingston@whoi.edu (Internet)

H.LIVINGSTON (Omnet)

Otis B. Brown

U.S. JGOFS Steering Committee, Chairman

R.S.M.A.S., University of Miami

4600 Rickenbacker Causeway

Miami, FL 33149

Tel: (305) 361-4018

E-mail: obrown@rsmas.miami.edu (Internet)

O.BROWN (Omnet)

U.S. JGOFS Planning Reports 1–17.

Hawaii Ocean Time-Series Data Reports 1–3.

Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Data Reports B-1 to B-3.

Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Methods Manual, March 1993.

U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific Process Study Protocols, 1993.

U.S. JGOFS, Livingston, H. D., and M. C. Bowles, Oceanus 35, 57–9, 1992.

Update: Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, Sea Technology, 49–53, Jan. 1993.

Thomas Powell

Division of Environmental Studies

University of California, Davis

Davis, CA 95616

Tel: (916) 752-1180

E-mail: T.POWELL (Omnet)

Brian Rothschild

University of Maryland

Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

P.O. Box 38

Solomons, MD 20688

Tel: (410) 326-4281

Fax: (410) 326-6987

E-mail: B.ROTHSCHILD (Omnet)

Towards the Development of the GLOBEC Core Program (GCP). A report of the first international GLOBEC planning meeting. Ravello, Italy, March 31-April 2, 1992.

Population Dynamics and Physical Variability. Report of the first meeting of an international GLOBEC working group. Cambridge, England, February 1–5, 1993.

In preparation:

Sampling and Observation Systems. Report of the first meeting of an international GLOBEC working group. Paris, France, April, 1993.

Report of the ICES/GLOBEC Cod and Climate Change Working Group Meeting. Lowestoft, England, June 7–11, 1993.

GLOBEC-International Southern Ocean Working Group: report of the first meeting. Norfolk, Virginia, June 15–17, 1993.

Numerical Modelling. Report of the first meeting of an international GLOBEC working group. Villefrance, France, July 12–16, 1993.

Kirk Bryan

Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Program

Sayre Hall

Princeton, University

Princeton, NJ 08540

Tel: (609) 258-6571

Fax: (609) 987-5063

Bryan, K., and R. J. Stouffer. 1991. A note on Bjerknes' hypothesis for North Atlantic variability. Journal of Marine Systems 1:229–241.

Gordon, A. L., S. E. Zebiac, and K. Bryan. 1992. Climate variability and the Atlantic Ocean. EOS, Transactions of the AGU. 73(15):164–165

Delworth, T., S. Manabe, and R. J. Stouffer. 1993. Interdecadal variations of the thermohaline circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate 6:1993–2011.

Walter Munk

ATOC Project Office

University of California, San Diego

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

La Jolla, CA 92093-0225

The following papers were published as part of the Ocean '93 Conference (Engineering in Harmony with the Ocean, Proceedings Vol. I) held October 18–21, 1993, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

ATOC Network Definition, D.W. Hyde.

Designing the ATOC Global Array, B. M., Howe, S. W. Leach, J. A. Mercer and R. I. Odum.

Acoustic Thermography for Arctic Ocean Climate, P. N. Mikhalevsky and R. Muench.

Numerical Solution of the Acoustic Wave Equation Using Chebyshev Polynomials with Application to Global Acoustics, M. Dzieciuch.

A Review of Ocean Current and Vorticity Measurements Using Long-Range Reciprocal Acoustic Transmissions, B. D. Dushaw, D. B. Chester, and P. F. Worcester.

Kenneth Mooney

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Office of Global Programs

1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1225

Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tel: (301) 427-2089

Jay Fein

National Science Foundation

Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Rm 775

4201 Wilson Blvd.

Arlington, VA 22230

Tel: (703) 306-1527

Eric J. Barron

NRC Climate Research Committee, Chairman

Earth System Science Center

537 Deike Building

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Tel: (814) 865-1619

Fax: (814) 865-3191

National Research Council. Report by the Climate Research Committee in preparation

Scott Nixon

Graduate School of Oceanography

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI 02881

Tel: (401) 792-6800

Fax: (401) 789-8340

E-mail: S.NIXON (Omnet)

LOICZ Core Project Office

Netherlands Institute of Sea Research

PO Box 59

1790 AB Den Burg

Texel, the Netherlands

Tel: 31-2220-69404

Fax: 31-2220-69430

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone Science Plan. IGBP Report No. 25. The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of Global Change (IGBP) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). Stockholm, February 1993.

Until new ARCSS Executive Committee Chairperson is appointed, contact:

Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

600 University Avenue

Suite B

Fairbanks, AK 99709

Tel: (907) 474-1600

Fax: (907) 474-1604

Patrick Webber

National Science Foundation

Office of Polar Programs

4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 755

Arlington, VA 22230

Tel: (703) 306-1030

Fax: (703) 306-0139

Arctic Social Science: An Agenda for Action. Committee on Arctic Social Sciences, Polar Research Board, National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1989, 75 pp.

Arctic System Science: Advancing the Scientific Basis for Predicting Global Change. ARCUS, Boulder, Colorado, 1990, 8 pp.

Arctic System Science—Land Atmosphere/Ice Interactions Science Plan. ARCUS, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1991, 23 pp.

Arctic System Science—Ocean/Atmosphere/Ice Interactions, Initial Science Plan, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Washington, DC, Report No.2, 1992, 27 pp.

Arctic System Science—Ocean/Atmosphere/Ice Interactions, SHEBA: A Research Program on the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean, OAII Science Management Office, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Report No. 3, 1993, 34 pp.

Arctic System Science:A Plan for Integration. Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, Fairbanks, Alaska. 1993.

Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc.

1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20036-2102

Tel: (202) 232-3900

Fax: (202) 232-8203

E-mail: JOI.INC (Omnet)

Tim Francis

Ocean Drilling Program

1000 Discovery Drive

College Station, TX 77845-9547

Tel: (409) 845-2673

Fax: (409) 845-4857

E-mail: fabiola@nelson.tamu.edu (Internet)

Brian Lewis

JOIDES Office

University of Washington, HA-30

Seattle, WA 98195

Tel: (206) 543-2203

Fax: (206) 685-7652

E-mail: blewis@ocean.washington.edu (Internet)

The following publications are available from the Ocean Drilling Program Office.

Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. Initial Reports, Volumes 101–145, and Scientific Results, Volumes 101–131.

Scientific Prospectuses. Volumes 1–54.

Preliminary Reports. Volumes 1–51.

Technical Notes. No. 1,3,6–18, 20–22.

Robert Detrick

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, MA 02543

Tel: (508) 457-2000 x3335

Fax: (508) 457-2187

E-mail: R.DETRICK (Omnet)

RIDGE Science Plan 1993–1997. RIDGE Office, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass., 1992, 101 pp.

Richard Poore

U.S. Geological Survey

National Center MS 955

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive

Reston, VA 22092

Tel: (703) 648-5270

Fax: (703) 648-6647

Report of a workshop on the correlation of marine and terrestrial records of climate changes in the western United States. J. V. Gardner, A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, D. P. Adam, W. E. Dean, J. P. Bradbury, and H. J. Rieck. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91–140, 1991, 48 pp.

Proceedings of the U.S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Forum, Herndon, Virginia, March 18–20, 1991. John A. Kelmelis and Mitchell Snow, eds., U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1086, 1993, 121 pp.

Poore, Richard Z. Editorial, Paleoceanography, v. 8, pp. 135–136. 1993.

Grantz, Arthur. Cruise to the Chuchi Borderland, Arctic Ocean. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union , v. 74, pp.249,253–254, 1993.

Nicklas G. Pisias

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

Oregon State University

Ocean Admin. Bldg 104

Corvallis, OR 97331-5503

Tel: (503) 737-5213

Fax: (503) 737-2064

E-mail: N.Pisias (Omnet)

pisias@oce.orst.edu (Internet)

Bilal Haq

National Science Foundation

Ocean Sciences Research Division, Rm 725

4201 Wilson Blvd.

Arlington, VA 22230

Tel: (703) 306-1586

Fax: (703) 306-0390

E-mail: B.HAQ (Omnet)

bhaq@nsf.edu

Advisory Panel Report on EARTH SYSTEM HISTORY. An Element of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. 1991.

IMAGES—International Marine Global Change Study. A marine component to PAGES pilot program PANASH II. Proposal for joint SCOR/IGBP-PAGES. In Press.

MESH Program Plan. In Preparation.