explore a wide range of physical processes having a wide range of length scales from basinwide ocean currents to centimeter-scale turbulent mixing. Experimental sites range from the open ocean over marginal and coastal seas to estuaries and the extremely shallow Florida Bay. Oceanographic instrumentation used include current meter moorings, MPO's Ocean Technology Group having the experience to deploy long-term moorings in any environment in the deep sea as well as in coastal waters. Further major observational tools include CTD / LADCP sondes that profile the abyss to measure temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and ocean currents. MPO researchers also have experience in quantitatively observing small-scale processes including turbulent mixing. Looking at the web pages of some specific experiments will probably provide a better idea of the seagoing work done at MPO. The analysis of data gained during research cruises often employs satellite-based remote sensing and often has a component of numerical circulation modeling. Ship-based work has been done in conjunction with aircraft observations and land-based surface current measurements.

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Experiments and Investigators

TACE-EUC	Bill Johns	TROPICAL ATLANTIC CLIMATE EXPERIMENT   Variability of the Equatorial Undercurrent in the eastern Tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea 2007-2010
MOCHA	Bill Johns Molly Baringer Lisa Beal	Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux Array (MOCHA), a joint U.S. / U.K. climate-related study with links to the RAPID Program.  MOCHA is designed to monitor the transport of the deep western boundary current off Abaco Island in the Bahamas.  2004-2007.
AUCE	Lisa Beal	Agulhas Current, 2003
DOLCEVITA	Hartmut Peters	Mesoscale currents and mixing in the Adriatic; 2003
HUD01	Hartmut Peters	Mixing in a tidal estuary, Hudson River, New York, 2001
RedSox	Bill Johns Hartmut Peters	"Red Sea Outflow Experiment" (REDSOX), Gulf of Aden / Bab el Mandeb, 2001
4D Current Experiment (Florida Strait)	P. E. An S.M. Smith L.K. Shay H. Peters J.C. Van Leer A.J. Mariano	Surface Doppler radar-, AUV-, mooring-, and ship observations off Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1999 --  Short paragraph --  More
Persian Gulf	Bill Johns	Exchange through the Strait of Hormuz, 1996-98
Bab el Mandeb	Bill Johns Steve Murray	Exchange through the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, 1995-97
Florida Bay	Tom Lee Libby Johns Villy Kourafalou Liz Williams	Exchange of Florida Bay with the connecting coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic in the Florida Keys, ongoing. -- Short paragraph;  --  NOAA/AOML web page - Drifter Program.
North Brazil Current	Bill Johns	North Brazil Current Rings, 1998-2000
Palace Floats	Kevin Leaman	Various experiments with acoustically tracked, profiling subsurface floats.  Summary "spaghetti" diagram indicating ocean currents at depth.
ACCP-1 ACCP-2	Bill Johns & Tom Lee	Moored current measurements off  Abaco, Bahamas, 1992-95
Kuroshio off Taiwan	Tom Lee, Bill Johns, & Cho-Teng Liu	Moored and shipboard observations of the Kuroshio, 1994-96