Maritimes Region Historical RAPID Climate Change Program Moored Time Series Data

This monitoring effort was continued in the NERC-funded follow-on program RAPID-WATCH 2008-2014. The program aimed to improve the ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.

The program used a combination of observations (present day and palaeo) and modelling (atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial, cryospheric). Observations such as moorings were used for testing simulations of Thermohaline Circulation variability and climate change including the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, long-term transports and mixing processes and atmospheric forcing of ocean convection, and large-scale ocean transports.