NERC Rapid Climate Change: First "Science" round Awards

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Rapid Climate Change

Successful applications submitted to the first RAPID funding round

Eighteen research proposals are being funded through the first 'standard funding' round (for details see below). Click on a Project Title to view an abstract.

Ref no: NER/T/ S/40%2/	Principal Investigator	Institute	Title
425	Professor A Willmott	Keele University	Processes controlling dense water formation and transport on Arctic continental shelves
427	Dr S Josey	Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC)	The Role of Air-Sea Forcing in Causing Rapid Changes in the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
430	Dr E Wolff	BAS	High resolution anatomy of rapid climate transitions in the last glacial period from a Greenland ice core
436	Professor IN McCave	Cambridge University	Hydrographic and flow changes at sharp climate transitions in the North Atlantic MOC, 0-16ka BP
439	Dr R Williams	Liverpool University	The role of sloping topography in the overturning circulation of the North Atlantic
440	Professor K Briffa	University of East Anglia	Quantitative applications of high-resolution late Holocene proxy data sets: estimating climate sensitivity and thermohaline circulation influences
441	Professor B Hoskins	Reading University	The atmospheric water vapour budget and its relevance to the THC
442	Dr E Guilyardi	Reading University	The role of salinity in ocean circulation and climate response to greenhouse gas forcing
443	Dr A Tudhope	Edinburgh University	Improving our ability to predict rapid changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation climatic phenomenon
446	Professor A Watson	University of East Anglia	Circulation, overflow, and deep convection studies in the Nordic Seas using tracers and models
448	Professor I Fairchild	University of Birmingham	Atlantic Seaboard Climate Responses including Bounding Errors (ASCRIBE)
449	Professor H Bryden	University of Southampton	Extending the time series of Atlantic Meridional Overturning backwards in time using historical measurements
450	Mr P Challenor	SOC	The Probability of Rapid Climate Change
453	Dr S Bacon	SOC	Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge: Interannual to Millenial Thermohaline Circulation Variability
455	Dr N Wells	University of Southampton	The determination of heat transfer and storage, and their changes in the North Atlantic Ocean
459	Dr C Pain	Imperial College	Better Understanding of Open Ocean Deep Convection (OODC) with reference to THC
420%	Dr J Holmes	University College London	ISOMAP UK: a combined data-modelling investigation of water isotopes and their interpretation during rapid climate change events
462	Dr J Bamber	University of Bristol	The role of the cryosphere on modulating the thermohaline circulation of the North Atlantic

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