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From vision to action: New NOAA strategic framework sets path for more resilient Arctic
This is a repost of a NOAA.gov web story published on January 8, 2025. Modified February 14, 2025. Today, NOAA released its Arctic Vision and Strategy — a framework that outlines actions needed to achieve more resilient ecosystems and communities in the region. The strategy depicts NOAA’s priority areas and current activities in the Arctic, while providing
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January 14, 2025
Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions: 2024 Arctic Report Card released
On December 10th, NOAA’s 2024 Arctic Report Card was released at a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as part of its Fall Meeting. Opening remarks were provided by NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad. Lead editor Twila Moon provided a summary of the report and authors Lawrence Mudryk, Brendan Rogers and Lori Quakenbush provided remarks
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December 10, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA invest $1.8 million to expand critical ice and ocean observations in the Arctic
Expanded infrastructure could ‘revolutionize’ research in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. This is a repost of a NOAA.gov press release published October 1, 2024. Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced a $1.8 million award to support the development, procurement and deployment of innovative ocean monitoring technologies in NOAA’s Arctic Research Program. These technological advances will
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October 1, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration, NOAA invest $3.84 million to enhance Arctic research, data management and climate resiliency
This is a repost of a NOAA.gov press release published September 27, 2024. Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced an award of $3.84 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding to support climate resiliency projects in Alaska and the Arctic through President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda.  These funds from the Inflation Reduction
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September 27, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration invests $2.1 million for measuring surface ocean carbon through the Investing in America agenda
Funding will expand observations, improve forecasting of carbon dioxide levels in the ocean surface and atmosphere This is a repost of a NOAA.gov press release published May 30, 2024. Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced the award of $2.1 million to support surface ocean and atmospheric carbon observations and monitoring through President Biden’s
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May 31, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration invests $2.7 million to improve ocean observations with new robotic floats through Investing in America agenda
Funding will support expansion of the Argo ocean observing system This is a repost of a NOAA.gov press release published April 10, 2024. Today, NOAA and the Department of Commerce announced that $2.7 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) will be used to replenish and expand an important array of robotic floats in the
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April 10, 2024
Biden-Harris Administration invests $1 million in advancing Arctic data management and climate resilience through Investing in America agenda
This is a repost of a NOAA press release dated December 8, 2023. View the original release on NOAA.gov. Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced a $1 million Notice of Funding Opportunity for competitive grants to help improve regional climate data and information products for the Arctic region. These grants are funded through
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December 8, 2023
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NOAA Research Releases First-of-its-Kind Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan
The Importance of Coordinated NOAA Research Ocean Carbon Science and Observations On January 16th, 2025, NOAA Research released an Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan. Ocean, coastal, and Great Lake carbon observations provide critical information that helps support the development of future climate projections, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and policies that inform decision makers and advance
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January 16, 2025
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NOAA Research Releases First-of-its-Kind Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan
The Importance of Coordinated NOAA Research Ocean Carbon Science and Observations On January 16th, 2025, NOAA Research released an Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan. Ocean, coastal, and Great Lake carbon observations provide critical information that helps support the development of future climate projections, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and policies that inform decision makers and advance
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January 16, 2025
Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions: 2024 Arctic Report Card released
On December 10th, NOAA’s 2024 Arctic Report Card was released at a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as part of its Fall Meeting. Opening remarks were provided by NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad. Lead editor Twila Moon provided a summary of the report and authors Lawrence Mudryk, Brendan Rogers and Lori Quakenbush provided remarks
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December 10, 2024
NOAA Ocean Acidification Program & GOMO fund $3M for optimizing ocean carbon observing
The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), in partnership with NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program is pleased to announce the awardees for the  FY24 Coastal and Ocean Carbon Observing Optimization Studies funding opportunity. The expected total NOAA investment of $3,018,812 over three years aims to optimize sampling strategies that improve carbonate chemistry observing systems geared towards delivering data
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October 8, 2024
Oceanic measurements of carbon dioxide continue to decrease, as reported in this year’s ocean carbon data atlas
SOCAT annual update for 2024 released The release of this year’s Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCATv2024) on June 19th revealed that the number of oceanic measurements of the climate change-driving greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), has continued to decrease, following a downward trend since 2018. The number of observations submitted to this annual update is
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September 9, 2024
NOAA research cruise supports key tropical Atlantic observing system
This is a repost of NOAA AOML’s original story published August 6, 2024 There and back again: NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter journeyed away from Pascagoula, Mississippi for 90+ days and 12,700+ nautical miles to conduct the PIRATA Northeast Extension cruise. A NOAA ship that traditionally sails in the Gulf of Mexico embarked on a 90+ day journey
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August 13, 2024
Filling A Data Gap In The Tropical Pacific To Reveal Daily Air-Sea Interactions
This is a repost of an original NOAA Climate Program Office story published March 25, 2024. Research has long shown that ocean surface temperatures can influence the atmosphere. Over the past twenty years, researchers have been studying how the atmosphere reacts to changing ocean temperatures globally, sparking debates on the exact mechanisms at play. Using
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March 27, 2024
Record carbon dioxide emissions impeding progress on meeting climate goals
This is a repost of a NOAA Research article published December 5, 2023. Read the original post here. NOAA data and models help scientists track the global carbon cycle Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are projected to reach a record 36.8 billion metric tons in 2023, an increase of 1.1% over 2022, according to
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December 8, 2023
Arctic Sea Ice Loss Contributed to Greenland’s Increased Ice Sheet Melting, Study Says
Arctic Sea Ice Loss Contributed to Greenland’s Increased Ice Sheet Melting, Study Says New CPO-supported research found that decreasing Arctic sea ice has been an important contributor to changes in atmospheric circulation and temperature, both factors promoting Greenland’s surface melt. A report of the study appears in the May 2016 issue of the Journal of Climate.
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NOAA Research Releases First-of-its-Kind Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan
The Importance of Coordinated NOAA Research Ocean Carbon Science and Observations On January 16th, 2025, NOAA Research released an Ocean Carbon Observing Science Plan. Ocean, coastal, and Great Lake carbon observations provide critical information that helps support the development of future climate projections, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and policies that inform decision makers and advance
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January 16, 2025
Stratus Ocean Reference Station Successfully Deployed Off Coast of Chile
Stratus Ocean Reference Station Successfully Deployed Off Coast of Chile On January 28, 2021 the 19th deployment of the Stratus Ocean Reference Station (ORS) was accomplished using the Chilean Navy Ship AGS 61 Cabo de Hornos. The Stratus ORS is located about 800 nautical miles off the coast of northern Chile, at 220 31’ S, 850 48’ W, where the ocean
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February 10, 2021
New Tide Gauge Station Built in Chuuk, Micronesia
New Tide Gauge Station Built in Chuuk, Micronesia Chuuk, Micronesia has not had an active tide gauge for many years. In partnership with KIOST, the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC) was able to coordinate and help get a station built during the pandemic. Since travel was restricted, the technicians at UHSLC built the station in their
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January 11, 2021
2020 Global Carbon Budget Released
2020 Global Carbon Budget Released Lower emissions due to COVID-19 have little effect on atmosphere and ocean Fossil fuel emissions in 2020 are projected to decline by an estimated 0.7 billion tons in 2020  to 9.3 gigatons of carbon (Gt C), 7% lower than in 2019, according to new estimates relying on energy consumption data in the
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December 23, 2020
2020 Arctic Report Card Released
2020 Arctic Report Card Released The sustained transformation to a warmer, less frozen and biologically changed Arctic remains clear On December 8, 2020, the 2020 Arctic Report Card was released at the AGU Fall Meeting in a press conference. This 15th annual Arctic Report Card catalogs the numerous ways that environmental change continues to transform and disrupt the Arctic
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December 21, 2020
Upcoming Workshop: Integrating Ocean Observations to Improve NOAA’s Hurricane Intensity Forecasts
Upcoming Workshop: Integrating Ocean Observations to Improve NOAA’s Hurricane Intensity Forecasts The GOMO-led Extreme Events Ocean Observations Task Team is organizing the workshop: Integrating Ocean Observations to Improve NOAA’s Hurricane Intensity Forecasts. The workshop will be held virtually from Tuesday, January 26 through Thursday, January 28, 2021. This workshop will focus on upper ocean and
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December 21, 2020
2019 Surface Water Carbon Database Published
2019 Surface Water Carbon Database Published The Global Ocean Surface Water Partial Pressure of CO2 Database (LDEO Database Version 2019) has been published at OCADS/NCEI. The most recent LDEO databased contains approximately 14.2 million measurements of surface water partial pressure CO2 (pCO2) made over the global oceans and coastal waters between 1957-2019. This version contains an
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December 7, 2020
GOMO at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020
GOMO at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020 The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will take place virtually this year from December 1-17. GOMO Program Manager, Emily Smith, and Knauss Fellows Cheyenne Stienbarger and Ann-Christine Zinkann will be leading sessions below. GOMO’s 2020 Hollings Scholar Amanda O’Shaughnessy will be presenting a poster of her research on sea level planning, and
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November 25, 2020
Late-Season Arctic Research Cruise Reveals Warm Ocean Temperatures, Active Ecosystem
Late-Season Arctic Research Cruise Reveals Warm Ocean Temperatures, Active Ecosystem “The water and air temperatures were warmer, and we had ecosystem activity that normally doesn’t occur late in the season,” said University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Professor Jacqueline Grebmeier, chief scientist on the research cruise and a national and international leader in Arctic research. This
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November 18, 2020
NOAA’s Efforts to Improve Hurricane Forecasts Tested on Isaias
NOAA’s Efforts to Improve Hurricane Forecasts Tested on Isaias with Gliders, Drifters, and Argo floats NOAA’s Extreme Events-Ocean Observations (EE-OO) Task Team supports the coordination of targeted and sustained ocean observing efforts to improve the understanding of air-sea interaction during high wind events, with the goal of improving the accuracy of hurricane intensity forecasts. The
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August 10, 2020
NOAA Releases 2020-2029 Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan
Released July 29, 2020 NOAA has developed a 2020-2029 Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan that builds upon acidification science accomplishments made in the last decade and responds to newly emerging requirements in this field. In coordination with international, interagency, and external academic and industry research partners, the NOAA Acidification Research Plan aims to support science
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August 10, 2020
GOMO Director Interviewed on COVID Impacts to Ocean Observing
GOMO Director Interviewed on COVID Impacts to Ocean Observing Climatewire and Inside Climate News In response to a GOOS report on COVID impacts to ocean observing, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program’s Director Dr. David Legler was interviewed by E&E’s Climatewire. In the article, published July 20, 2020, Legler commented on the current state of ocean observations, including
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August 10, 2020
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Adopt a Drifter Program releases a new educational game: Ocean Odyssey: Tracking Marine Debris
The Adopt a Drifter Program has released a new NOAA SciJinks web game designed for K-12 audiences: Ocean Odyssey: Tracking Marine Debris. The game was designed and developed by the program’s first summer undergraduate intern, Stephen Lewis. Ocean Odyssey is inspired by the Global Drifter Program’s contributions to Lagrangian observations, which are collected by drifters
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September 20, 2024
We’re Hiring! Apply to GOMO’s Education & Outreach Specialist Position
NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program is excited to announce a job opening for the program’s first Education & Outreach Specialist (CPAESS Program Specialist II). This position is responsible for improving the strategic coordination, visibility, and public awareness of GOMO’s education, outreach, and capacity building projects and their impact. Funding for this position
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February 15, 2024
Get ready for Halloween with NOAA ocean observing pumpkin stencils!
Fall in love with science with NOAA pumpkin stencils! (Image Credit: NOAA Education/Kaleigh Ballantine) NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program wants to help you celebrate spooky season in style. Our new pumpkin carving templates highlight some of the ways NOAA measures the ocean and how ocean observations are used. Grab a pumpkin, check out
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October 18, 2023
New Education Resource: “Keeping An Eye On Earth’s Oceans With Argo Robots”
GOMO-funded tech highlighted in Frontiers for Young Minds A new article was released in the Earth Sciences section of the journal Frontiers for Young Minds. “Keeping An Eye On Earth’s Oceans With Argo Robots,” describes the technology, applications, and developments of Argo floats, a major component of the Global Ocean Observing System, and provides a
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October 17, 2023
Meet GOMO’s Summer Interns, Kelli Ong & Diego Rivera
Each summer, NOAA provides internship opportunities for undergraduate students through programs such as the José E. Serrano Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions (EPP/MSI) and the Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship. These programs, among other educational opportunities for K12, undergraduate, and graduate students, enable students interested in oceanic and atmospheric research and policy to
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August 22, 2023
Meet the Women Advancing NOAA Hurricane Research and Forecasting
How seven women across NOAA are leading advances in hurricane technology, observing, and forecasting Hurricanes, also known as tropical cyclones, are among the most destructive natural disasters. These storms pose major risks to coastal communities and cost billions of dollars each year in damages. Impacts are expected to increase with warming ocean temperatures, rising sea
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June 12, 2023
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How Two Scientists Have Advanced Marine Ecosystems Research in the Arctic
Sarah Tucker
January 31, 2024
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In the middle of the cold and wavy Bering Sea, a crane extends over the stern of the R/V
Sikuliaq
and brings aboard a metal scoop filled with a sample collected from the muddy bottom of the seafloor. Researchers, Jackie, Lee, and colleagues, sort through the mud samples to catalog the hundreds of organisms it contains – clams, worms, amphipods, and brittle stars. Some of the critters will go on to be used in experimental studies on how climate change is affecting metabolism, others will be preserved for genetic and taxonomic analyses, and others will be sampled for concentrations of harmful algal toxins to ensure the safety of shellfish consumption in the area. The remaining scientists on the ship are busy identifying and counting zooplankton, some are filtering water for measures of phytoplankton, and some are keeping track of marine mammal sightings. This is the busy but steady hum of scientific observations aboard a research vessel.
For the past 40 years, Jacqueline “Jackie” Grebmeier and Lee Cooper have spent months in a variety of locations within the Arctic aboard 100+ foot research ships. Grebmeier and Cooper, both professors at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), have dedicated their scientific careers to characterizing and communicating the impacts a warmer Arctic is having on marine ecosystems. Currently, the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, resulting in sea ice loss, a warmer ocean, and marine food webs that are changing dramatically.
Lee Cooper and graduate student Brian Marx on the 2023 NOAA Arctic Marine Ecosystems Cruise hold a Van Veen Grab sampler filled with a fresh sample of seafloor sediment and the life found within the sediment. Credit: Seth Danielson, UAF.
However, Grebmeier and Cooper are not just contributing to the research, they are connecting and building scientific communities focused on improving our understanding of Arctic marine ecosystems. They are two of the scientific leads of the
Distributed Biological Observatory
, a program aimed at developing a framework for collecting and analyzing data that examines the diversity, distribution, and drivers of marine life in the Arctic over time and space. Stations in biological hotspots of the Bering and Chukchi Seas were chosen to catalog the diversity of life present, the key drivers from the ecosystem, and how the system is changing with the ongoing impacts of climate change. Detecting and understanding these changes requires extensive analysis of observations taken from the ocean’s surface to the seafloor, as well as data collected from controlled experiments.
The Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) has been a catalyst for national and international collaboration, technology development, and new understanding of how Arctic marine food webs are changing. Since its formal development in 2010, the DBO has served as a model of scientific research and has been replicated across the Arctic. Partnerships have been formed with scientists in China, Japan, Korea, Canada, and Russia, and with the expansion to a Pan-Arctic DBO network, collaboration with many European Union countries.
Within the US, Cooper and Grebmeier have also collaborated closely with academic and federal partners. For example, this past September, NOAA’s Arctic Marine Ecosystems Cruise was split among four major projects contributing to a better understanding of how the Arctic is changing: the Distributed Biological Observatory (
DBO
), Ecosystem & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (
EcoFOCI
), the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (
AMBON
), and the Chukchi Ecosystem Observatory (
CEO
). During the cruise, Principal Investigators Jackie Grebmeier (DBO, UMCES), Katrin Iken (AMBON, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)), Phyllis Stabeno (EcoFOCI, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), and Seth Danielson (CEO, UAF) worked together to coordinate the 24-person science party and the varying but complementary scientific interests of each program. Together, the combined efforts of these programs took full advantage of the time at sea to collect a wide range of biological and environmental data on everything from physical and chemical oceanography to biodiversity of water column plankton to communities living in the muddy floor of the ocean as well as seabirds and marine mammals.
Large collaborative research cruises require extensive communication and teamwork, but are not new to seasoned Arctic scientists like Grebeimer and Cooper. Logistically, field-work in the Arctic is often challenging and expensive and thus collaborative research expeditions and projects are critical to advancing the number and quality of observations in the Arctic. In recent years, NOAA funding for the DBO has supported time on specialized ships, like
R/V
Sikuliaq
and
USCGC
Healy
, which are ice capable, and have the ability to recover and deploy large moored instruments that provide year-long coverage of conditions in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas. These ships are also equipped with controlled laboratory spaces that simulate seafloor ocean temperatures and allow scientists to conduct experiments at sea on samples collected in Arctic waters. With these specialized laboratories, scientists can track in real-time how ocean life responds to and performs under different ocean conditions.
Jackie Grebmeier uses sieves to sort through a sample collected from the muddy seafloor sediment at a DBO station. Credit: Seth Danielson, UAF.
It is hard to over-emphasize the importance and utility of the comprehensive and long-term dataset that DBO provides through national and international collaborations. Understanding how Arctic food webs are changing is vital to the management and conservation of important marine resources. Local and Indigenous communities rely on healthy marine food webs for subsistence hunting and fishing activities that fulfill nutritional and cultural needs. Globally, and particularly as fisheries move northward, Arctic marine ecosystems support significant fisheries industry and international economic activities.
In addition to collaborating broadly with the scientific community, Grebmeir and Cooper are committed to sharing and exchanging knowledge with local communities in Alaska. After almost every research cruise within Alaska, they organize an event to share their findings with local students and interested groups. This past September, for example, Grebmeir and Cooper along with other scientists aboard the NOAA Arctic Marine Ecosystems Cruise made presentations to three classes at the Anvil Science Academy magnet school in Nome and gave a public talk as part of the
Strait Science Lecture Series
provided by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus and Alaska Sea Grant. There is a wide range of interest from local communities in Alaska to learn about, consult on, benefit from, and/or contribute to scientific activities nearby.
Cooper reflects “it is in scientists’ best interests to be sensitive to the needs of local communities and communicate with local groups to avoid disturbing any hunting or fishing activities.” He also stresses that another important area for researchers to get involved with communities is “to assist projects that help test and monitor for harmful algal blooms that impact human health since many small communities in Alaska are heavily dependent upon local food gathering activities.”
When they are not at sea, in the classroom, or in the laboratory, Grebmeier and Cooper are often writing scientific publications – they contributed to the latest
Arctic Report Card
– and sharing data and observations at scientific conferences and intergovernmental meetings. This year, their research will take them to New Orleans for the
Ocean Sciences Meeting
and Edinburgh for the
Arctic Science Summit Week
where they will compare information with scientists from around the circumpolar Arctic and work with others to address the scientific needs for observing Arctic change. They will also prepare for the next field season of data collection with cruises to both the Bering and Chukchi seas. For these ever-curious and dedicated scientists, every day at sea is a new opportunity and any time in the dramatically changing Arctic is a gift.
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Warmest Arctic Summer on Record is Evidence of Accelerating Climate Change: 2023 Arctic Report Card Released
Jessica Mkitarian
December 12, 2023
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New chapters in 2023 Arctic Report Card show the promise of Indigenous knowledge to strengthen resilience
On December 12, NOAA’s
2023 Arctic Report Card
released at a press conference hosted by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as part of its Fall Meeting. Opening remarks were provided by NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad. Lead editor Rick Thoman provided a summary of the report, and authors Dr. Tom Ballinger, Dr. Daniel Schindler, and Roberta Glenn-Borade provided remarks on their research. The Arctic Report Card is funded and coordinated by the Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Arctic Research Program. The website, video production, and graphics are led by NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Climate Program Office. NOAA Communications coordinates the rollout and press for the Report Card.
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NOAA’s 2023 Arctic Report Card
documents new records showing that human-caused warming of the air, ocean and land is affecting people, ecosystems and communities across the Arctic region, which is heating up faster than any other part of the world.
Summer surface air temperatures during 2023 were the warmest ever observed in the Arctic, while the highest point on Greenland’s ice sheet experienced melting for only the fifth time in the 34-year record. Overall, it was the Arctic’s sixth-warmest year on record. Sea ice extent continued to decline, with the last 17 Septembers now registering as the lowest on record. These records followed two years when unprecedented high abundance of sockeye salmon in western Alaska’s Bristol Bay contrasted with record-low Chinook and chum salmon that led to fishery closures on the Yukon River and other Bering Sea tributaries.
“The overriding message from this year’s report card is that the time for action is now,” said Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA administrator. “NOAA and our federal partners have ramped up our support and collaboration with state, tribal and local communities to help build climate resilience. At the same time, we as a nation and global community must dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are driving these changes.”
The annual Arctic Report Card, now in its 18th year, is the work of 82 authors from 13 countries. It includes a section titled Vital Signs, that updates eight measures of physical and biological changes, four chapters on emerging issues and a special report on the 2023 summer of extreme wildfires.
Divergent climate impacts on salmon fisheries
One new chapter in the report focuses on salmon species that are vital to the health, cultures and food security of many Indigenous communities as well as to commercial fishing economies. During 2021 and 2022, sockeye salmon, a staple of commercial fishing, reached record-high abundance in Bristol Bay, Alaska, while Chinook and chum salmon, fished by Indigenous communities in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, fell to record-low abundance. Declining fisheries have continued into 2023 with fishing closures.
Chinook and chum salmon numbers have declined following recent heatwaves and ecosystem changes in the rivers where they spawn and the ocean waters where they grow to maturity. Warming river waters have been linked to heat stress in Chinook salmon, and warmer ocean waters may be contributing to both species maturing as smaller adults.
Contrastingly, sockeye have been extremely successful under recent warm conditions, which allow them to grow faster in lakes as juveniles and may boost their survival when they migrate to the ocean. The diverging impacts are affecting Indigenous communities that depend on the salmon for food, and challenging fishery managers as the different species respond in unique ways to the warming climate.
Indigenous knowledge strengthens science and resilience
The 2023 report card features two chapters on the importance of implementing Indigenous knowledge for the future resilience of the Arctic. One chapter describes the work of the
Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub
, a collaboration between University of Alaska scientists and a network of Iñupiaq observers who are documenting long-term environmental change and social and cultural impacts on their northern Alaska communities.
The value of Indigenous and local knowledge to help tackle environmental challenges is also central to a chapter on the restoration of peatlands and boreal forests in Finland, where Indigenous Sámi people and Finnish villages are working with scientists to restore these wetland ecosystems and forests.
Over the last two decades, the Finnish nonprofit
Snowchange Cooperative
has restored dozens of sites, positively influencing 128,000 acres (52,000 hectares) of peatlands and forest damaged by decades of industrial harvesting and forest management. The restoration demonstrates a globally relevant climate solution that increases carbon storage, preventing greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere. The restored peatlands are also restoring water quality and bringing back fish and birds, a vital food source and draw for ecotourism.
Another new chapter delves into the little-known topic of subsea permafrost, a potential source of greenhouse gas emissions. For thousands of years as the world emerged from the last ice age, rising ocean waters in the Arctic continued to cover more and more permafrost, transforming it into subsea permafrost. The Arctic has an estimated 965,000 square miles of subsea permafrost, a fifth of the amount of permafrost found on land. International research collaboration is needed to address questions about the extent and current state of subsea permafrost and to estimate the potential release of greenhouse gases as it thaws.
Summer (July-September) 2023 was the Arctic’s hottest on record.
Map:
Some areas, including northern Alaska and Canada, were 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit or more (darkest red) above the 1991-2020 average.
Graph:
Summer temperature compared to average each year from 1940-2023. Warming has accelerated in recent decades, reaching a new record in 2023. NOAA Climate.gov images, adapted from the 2023 Arctic Report Card. (Image credit: NOAA)
Major annual updates of Vital Signs for 2023
The average
surface air temperature
in the Arctic this past year was the sixth warmest since 1900 at 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius). The summer Arctic average temperature was the warmest on record at 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6.4 Celsius). Data shows that since 1940, annual average temperatures have risen .45 of a degree Fahrenheit (.25 of a degree Celsius) per decade and average summer temperatures have risen .31 of a degree Fahrenheit  (.17 of a degree Celsius) per decade.
Sea ice extent
continues to decline, with the 17 lowest Arctic sea ice extents on record occurring during the last 17 years. This year’s sea ice extent was the sixth lowest in the satellite record, which began in 1979, with older, thicker multi-year ice far less than in the 1980s.
Mean
sea surface temperatures
in August 2023 were 9 to 13 degrees Fahrenheit (5-7 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1991-2020 August mean values in the Barents, Kara, Laptev and Beaufort seas. Unusually cool August temperatures were observed in Baffin Bay, Greenland Sea and parts of the Chukchi Sea. August mean sea surface temperatures show warming trends for the period from 1982 to 2023 in areas of the Arctic Ocean that are ice free in August, with mean sea surface temperature increases of nearly a degree Fahrenheit (.5 of a degree Celsius) per decade.
Arctic Ocean regions, except for the Canadian Archipelago, Chukchi and Beaufort seas, continue to show increased
ocean phytoplankton blooms, or primary productivity,
with the largest percent increases in Eurasian Arctic and Barents Sea.
North American
snow cover
set a record low in May 2023, while snow accumulation during the 2022-2023 winter was above average across both North America and Eurasia.
Heavy
precipitation events
broke existing records at various locations across the Arctic, with some variation such as a dry summer in northern Canada, contributing to record wildfires. Pan-Arctic precipitation was the sixth highest on record, continuing the trend toward a wetter Arctic.
Tundra greenness
across the Arctic was the third highest in the 24-year satellite record, a slight increase over 2022. The Arctic continues a trend of increased shrubs, willows and alders where once there was tundra.
The
Greenland Ice Sheet
continued to lose mass despite above-average winter snow accumulation. Summit Station, the highest point on the ice sheet, reached a temperature of 32.7 degrees Fahrenheit on June 26, 2023, experiencing melting for only the fifth time in the 34-year record.
For more information, please see the
Arctic Report Card
and a short
video
summarizing main highlights from the report card.
Please go online to view
Arctic Report Card infographics
on key findings: air temperature, sea surface temperature, sea ice, snow cover, tundra vegetation, Finland’s peatland restoration and overall Arctic warming.
Media contacts:
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monica.allen@noaa.gov
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Theo Stein,
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Global Drifter Program partners with the National Data Buoy Center to support US Navy-funded Deployments For many years, the Global Drifter Program’s (GDP) drifter operations center at NOAA/AOML has partnered with the National Weather Service’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to coordinate drifter deployments during TAO and DART operations. These deployments help the operation center maintain a distributed global array
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July 8, 2020
CCE-1 Moored Buoy Rescued Days After Breaking From Anchor
CCE-1 Moored Buoy Rescued Days After Breaking From Anchor On June 6, it was discovered that the GOMO and OAP co-funded California Current Ecosystem (CCE-1) surface mooring broke away from its anchor. This mooring is typically recovered and redeployed annually, but due to COVID-19 setbacks, it had exceeded its one year station. The mooring is normally located in
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July 8, 2020
Glider in the Gulf Stream Gathers Vital Data Days Before Early Storm
Glider in the Gulf Stream Gathers Vital Data Days Before Early Storm An autonomous underwater glider in the Gulf Stream has gathered information ahead of early-season Tropical Storm Arthur, passing within 75 kilometers of the eye of the storm. This routine operation provided observations of the relatively cool upper ocean waters (less than the 26°C typically
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June 2, 2020
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Global Drifter Program Operations During COVID-19
Global Drifter Program Operations During COVID-19 New Ocean Today Video Released! Deployments for NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP) continue to be conducted by partners around the world despite the pandemic. Recent deployments were conducted starting on May 12th in the North Atlantic from the Icelandic Fisheries R/V Bjarni Saemundsson, and in the subtropical North Pacific
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May 29, 2020
Drifters Deployed for 8 Schools Across Country
Drifters Deployed for 8 Schools Across Country The Adopt a Drifter Program recently deployed drifters for eight schools around the country. These drifters were deployed off the R/V Ron Brown on its way to Cape Town, South Africa. The Adopt a Drifter Program allows schools to “adopt” drifting buoys by having the students sign NOAA stickers that are
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March 5, 2020
Hurricane Lorenzo Passes Directly Over PIRATA Mooring
Hurricane Lorenzo Passes Directly Over PIRATA Mooring On Thursday, September 26, 2019, Hurricane Lorenzo tracked directly over the PIRATA T-Flex mooring at 15°N, 38°W. Despite the direct hit, the mooring remains in position and continues to transmit high-quality, high-resolution data in real-time. Refer to the image which shows the approximate location of the PIRATA mooring
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January 9, 2020
USCG Healy Returns from Distributed Biological Observatory Arctic Cruise
USCG Healy Returns from Distributed Biological Observatory Arctic Cruise On Friday, August 23, the USCGC Healy returned to Nome, AK after 22 days-at-sea performing 24 hour science operations in support of the DBO/NCIS project. Read more about the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) here.  Before departing, Arctic Research Program PI, Jackie Grebmeier, delivered a public talk on the DBO
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January 9, 2020
Hurricane Gliders Launched in the Gulf Stream
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January 9, 2020
8 Ways to Visualize Argo Data
8 Ways to Visualize Argo Data The international Argo Program held its 20th Data Management Meeting October 13-18, 2019 in Villefranche-sur-mer, France. The Argo Data Management Team Meeting is a time for the data managers who contribute to Argo to come together and discuss technical matters pertaining to the Argo data stream. For the first time, this
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January 9, 2020
Drifting Buoys Help Scientists Study Waves in the Gulf Stream
Drifting Buoys Help Scientists Study Waves in the Gulf Stream On Saturday, December 14, 2019, two drifting buoys were deployed off OceanX’s Alucia ship in Miami to follow the Gulf Stream and track important ocean health and maritime safety conditions. Three more drifters are set to be deployed off the 184 foot research vessel over the next
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January 9, 2020
NOAA Research Awards $3 Million for Biogeochemical Argo Float Research
NOAA Research Awards $3 Million for Biogeochemical Argo Float Research Four new research projects are giving a boost to NOAA’s ability to measure, track and forecast ocean acidification, warming and other important ocean health indicators. NOAA Research’s Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division has awarded $3 million in funding for projects that will expand the ability
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January 9, 2020
Successful Deployment of KEO Ocean Climate Station
Successful Deployment of KEO Ocean Climate Station September 24 – 29, 2019: Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (PMEL) and partners aboard the Kaiyo Maru #1 successfully completed the Kuroshio Extension Observatory (KEO) mooring turnaround cruise during typhoon season. The cruise began later than expected after facing delays due to typhoon Tapah. Sandwiched between weather systems, the KEO mooring was
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January 9, 2020
Pensacola Tide Gauge Station Upgraded with New Sensors
Pensacola Tide Gauge Station Upgraded with New Sensors The tide gauge station in Pensacola, Florida has successfully been upgraded to include Continuous Global Navigation Satellite Systems (cGNSS) sensors. This upgrade is part of a larger upgrade plan for all US based Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) tide gauge stations. The new cGNSS sensors allow for tide gauges
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January 8, 2020
NOAA invests in new tools to measure the ocean
This is a repost of NOAA Research’s original story published October 9, 2019. Four new research projects are giving a boost to NOAA’s ability to measure, track and forecast ocean acidification, warming and other important ocean health indicators. NOAA Research’s Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division has awarded $3 million in funding for projects that will expand the
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October 9, 2019
Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements
This is a repost of NOAA Research’s original story published December 10, 2018 An Argo float recently surfaced in the Atlantic Ocean to transmit temperature and salinity measurements from over a mile deep. This float was made in France and launched by German scientists in 2016, and it is one of thousands in the international Argo
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December 10, 2018
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The evolution of the in situ global ocean observing system for climate
The evolution of the in situ global ocean observing system for climate A paper in the Marine Technology Society Journal, authored by Stephen R. Piotrowicz and David Legler of CPO’s Climate Observation Division (COD), describes the eight elements of Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Arctic Observing Network. GOOS is the international observation system that
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Deep Argo floats deployed in the Pacific
Steve Piotrowicz, program manager at CPO’s Office of Climate Observation joined the crew of the R/V Tangaroa in mid-June for a Deep Argo Development cruise. The R/V Tangaroa, operated by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research sailed from Wellington, New Zealand on June 16, 2014. The R/V Tangaroa, operated by New Zealand’s National
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July 1, 2014
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First NOAA GO-SHIP Cruise in 5 years Departs to Study Unique Atlantic Basin
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30-years of ocean observations provide view into long-term ocean trends
On March 6, a team of scientists on the
NOAA Ship
Ronald H. Brown
departed from Suape, Brazil for a 55-day cruise to the northerly waters of Reykjavik, Iceland. With 150 planned stops along this cruise track known as A16N, measurements of heat, freshwater, carbon, oxygen, and nutrients will be taken from the ocean’s surface to the seafloor, sometimes reaching depths greater than 5,000 meters (3.1 miles)!
This is not the first time such a holistic snapshot of the Atlantic Ocean basin has been made. Every 10 years for the past 30 years, a team of scientists have embarked on this cruise track with the aim of understanding long-term trends in the health and functioning of our oceans. These research cruises are part of a larger international project known as the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (
GO-SHIP
), which makes repeat ocean observations at decadal intervals through
a global network of cruise tracks
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Data gathered on this cruise will address critical questions regarding changes to ocean circulation and the ocean’s uptake of human-released carbon dioxide. Scientists will investigate how the warming of our ocean impacts the movement of ocean water across the entire planet and influences our climate, including at critical locations in the North Atlantic.
Characterizing the responses of ocean life to ongoing climate change is also a priority of this cruise. For the first time on the A16N cruise, scientists will be collecting
several biological measurements
, including samples of environmental DNA (eDNA). The Atlantic is the only ocean basin where we see widespread shifts in three of the fundamental nutrients that are required for the growth of ocean life: nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron. The availability of such fundamental nutrients uniquely shapes the diversity, distribution, and functioning of marine life and biogeochemical cycles in the Atlantic. Data collected from this cruise will help track the biological changes of the Atlantic Ocean, and increase our general understanding of the diverse life inhabiting this ocean.
GO-SHIP cruises serve as a critical platform for testing, launching, and calibrating ocean observing technologies. In addition to collecting water samples, scientists on A16N will deploy up to 18 robotic
Argo floats
, including floats capable of measuring ocean biogeochemistry and the deep ocean, and up to 40 drifters as a part of
NOAA’s Global Drifter Program
. These autonomous floats and drifters will significantly expand the number of ocean measurements collected long after A16N is finished.
The cruise will bring together 45 researchers from 15 institutions to take measurements of the highest accuracy, test new instrumentation, and work towards improving our understanding and modeling of the ocean environment. This research is made possible  by scientists at NOAA’s
Atlantic Oceanog
r
aphic and Meteorological
and
Pacific Marine Environmental
Labs, and academic partners with financial support from
NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program
and the
National Science Foundation
. The A16N cruise also marks the last scientific voyage for the NOAA Ship
Ronald H. Brown
for one and a half years, as it is scheduled for dry-docking and repairs, and the first NOAA GO-SHIP mission since 2018. We wish the participants a safe and rewarding voyage!
Stay tuned for updates on the cruise! Learn more about
GO-SHIP A16N
.
Legend: Cruise track of A16N provided by
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/gcc/A16N_2023/
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Indian Ocean Buoys Serviced & Rescued with help of International Partners
Jessica Mkitarian
March 1, 2022
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The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (
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PMEL
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RAMA
). The KIOST-NOAA joint cruise is the first RAMA maintenance cruise in the Indian Ocean since 2019, prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cruise departed Port Louis, Mauritius on board the KIOST ship R/V ISABU on December 15, 2021 and ended in Jangmok-myeon, Republic of Korea on January 18, 2022.
The primary NOAA objectives during this cruise were to recover and deploy three RAMA moorings at 12°S, 67°E; 8°S, 67°E; and 4°S, 67°E, to deploy one subsurface ADCP mooring at 8°S, 67°E, twenty Global Drifter Program (GDP) drogued-drifters, and six Argo profiling floats along the cruise track.
The moored buoy at 8°S, 67°E is particularly noteworthy because it targets the unique and highly consequential Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge (SCTR) region in the southwest tropical Indian Ocean. The SCTR is an upwelling driven doming of the thermocline that results from the hemispheric asymmetry in monsoon wind forced Indian Ocean circulation. It influences seasonal rainfall over south Asia, is the spawning ground of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (
MJO
) that affects weather worldwide, and is a major foraging region for tuna. This buoy is a heavily instrumented flux reference site with enhanced meteorological and subsurface sensors to observe this unique area, which is among the most promising targets for improving long range weather forecasts at subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) time scales.
There were a number of significant challenges to overcome prior to this cruise, including additional COVID-19 protocols and shipping delays. During the cruise, the crew learned that the newly deployed mooring at 4°S, 67°E went adrift. Due to the tight scheduling and timeline for re-fueling, the R/V ISABU was unable to return to recover and re-deploy this mooring. Yet, one of the
many great strengths of GOMO and the
Data Buoy Cooperation Panel
is supporting buoy programs across many nations through international cooperation to serve a common purpose of maintaining the data buoy networks. Fortunately, the NOAA RAMA team connected with RDML Tim Gallaudet, who was able to connect them with the UK National Hydrographer, and on January 19,
Grampian Frontier
, a UK Supply Vessel in the region, successfully recovered the drifting buoy.
RAMA Program Manager, Sid Thurston noted that the RAMA team from PMEL went “above and beyond to successfully work side-by-side with their Korean colleagues to plan logistics and ex
e
cute flawlessly to service RAMA Moorings. We thank our colleagues who are working tirelessly to keep Indian Ocean data flowing freely to, among others, improve MJO, monsoon and S2S
forecasts around the world, including for the USA.”
PMEL buoy moorings on the aft deck of the R/V Isabu
PMEL Argo profiling floats and GDP drifter buoys on deck and staged for deployment.
Recovered RAMA Buoy on BPV main deck
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NOAA-led PIRATA Cruise Expands Sensors for Climate Prediction - Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing

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NOAA-led PIRATA Cruise Expands Sensors for Climate Prediction
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NOAA-led PIRATA Cruise Expands Sensors for Climate Prediction
New Storymap Released!
On December 19, 2021 after nearly six weeks at sea, scientists aboard the NOAA ship
Ronald H. Brown
returned to land and docked in Praia, Cape Verde, completing the
PIRATA (Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic) Northeast Extension (PNE)
cruise.
Researchers with
NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
,
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, the
University of Miami
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Fearless Fund
set sail from St. Petersburg, Florida on November 12th. Their goal was to service and collect data from four U.S. ocean buoys and one French buoy in support of the PNE project. The research team also deployed drifting buoys and Argo profiling floats along the way and recovered a Brazilian PIRATA buoy at 12N, 38W. The PNE cruise typically occurs annually, and the last cruise was in January and February of 2021. The science team on this cruise set records for the most moored buoys serviced during a PNE cruise (8!) and the most CTD casts performed (70!).
Read the details of this successful mission on
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PIRATA is a collaborative effort between Brazil, France, and the United States to study and improve predictability of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Atlantic. Air-sea interactions in this region have a large impact on weather and climate variability for surrounding countries and can be a determining factor in the prediction of extreme weather and ocean changes. The project is funded by
NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observation program
and is motivated by the societal needs for improved prediction of weather and climate variability. PIRATA buoys provide critical data that are used to develop and improve predictive models of the Atlantic climate system, as well as used for ocean and weather prediction.
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