NOAA太平洋海洋环境实验室
简介：PMEL开展海洋学和大气科学的跨学科研究，其研究成果对季节-年季的气候预报、十年到百年气候变化的预测和评估以及改进短期预警和预报服务、建立持续性渔业具有重要的应用价值。PMEL开展开拓性的研究，以增进对全球海洋的了解，及其与地球、大气、生态系统和气候的相互作用。重点研究领域包括海洋酸化、海啸探测和预报、热液喷口、渔业海洋学以及长期的气候监测和分析。机构网址：https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/。
重要研究成果网址：https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/publications/outstanding
物理海洋学相关研究方向：
Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array – The Global Tropical Moored Buoy array is a multi-national effort to provide data in real-time for climate-weather research and forecasting. Major components include the TAO/TRITON array in the Pacific, PIRATA in the Atlantic, and RAMA in the Indian Ocean.
Ocean Climate Stations – A project that deploys moored buoys to make continuous measurements of the atmosphere and ocean. These observations are used as ground truth for satellite and numerical weather prediction models, and by scientists to enhance our understanding of ocean uptake of carbon, ocean acidification, weather, and climate.
Large-Scale Ocean Physics – The group monitors and conducts research on ocean temperatures, salinity, and velocity changes and their impacts, including sea level rise and climate sensitivity, using data from the global array of Argo floats, deep hydrographic profiles along oceanographic transects occupied by the Repeat Hydrography Program, and other sources.
Climate-Weather Interface - Research focus lies in evaluation of the current ocean observing systems and their effectiveness for monitoring patterns of significant global climate variability and tropical air-sea interaction, with the goals of assisting the prediction of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather and climate extreme events. Research activities also include investigations on how weather and climate are connected through subseasonal variability and how observations should be made to benefit S2S prediction.
Arctic Climate Dynamics – Research focus conducts observations and evaluates models of Arctic sea ice to document and predict climate change impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems.
Ocean Carbon – This group focuses research efforts on understanding the ocean’s role in uptake and redistribution of natural and anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. The group generates high-quality carbon data, quantified global ocean carbon uptake and storage from repeat hydrography and VOX cruises, and acquired in situ measurements from moorings.
Pacific Western Boundary Currents - This project began exploratory missions in the Solomon Sea with ocean gliders in 2007 to observe fluctuations of the equatorward western boundary currents and how they contribute to the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The ENSO signal in this western boundary current is seen to be a first-order contribution to the equatorial mass and heat balance.
