Untitled - The Future Ocean

2006 - Member of German Delegation to IOC ABE-LOS (International OceanographicCommission of UNESCO - Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea)Large Projects1998-2005 Weddell Sea Bottom Water Time Series Site (2.000k US$, NOAA)2000-2004 Analysis of Arctic Climate Change (400k US$, NASA)2000-2004 Climate Impacts of the Southern Annular Mode (300k US$, NSF)2000-2004 Tropical Atlantic Climate Variability (300k US$, NOAA)2002-2004 ANSLOPE: Antarctic Bottom Water Formation (1.200k US$, NSF)2003-2007 IGERT: Integration of Mathematics with Geosciences (2.900k US$, NSF)2003-2008 CLIVAR Global Hydrography: LADCP measurements (500k US$, NSF)2006-2008 TENATSO: Cape Verde Time Series Site (500k€, EU)Research AreasOverall: Improve our understanding of the oceans role in the climate system.Observation and analysis of water mass formation and transformation in thesubpolar and polar regions. With an emphasis on the North Atlantic andAntarctic Oceans.Long-term observations of changes in water mass structure and boundarycurrent circulation in key locations (Labrador Sea, Weddell Sea) to determinevariability and trends in the oceans heat transport.Ocean circulation and interactions with the atmosphere in the tropical AtlanticOcean with emphasis on the role of the ocean in tropical climate variability.Application and development of modern oceanographic observing systems.Application of glider technology to observe critical ocean processes.Improve and optimize mooring technology for the generation of long timeseries of ocean properties and transport.Main PublicationsVisbeck, M, J Marshall, T Haine, M Spall (1997) Specification of eddy transfer coefficients incoarse resolution ocean circulation models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 27, 381-402.Hurrell JW, Y Kushnir, Visbeck M (2001) The North Atlantic Oscillation. Science 291 (5504)603-605.Keeling, R F, Visbeck M (2001) Antarctic stratification and glacial CO 2 . Nature 412, 605-606.Visbeck M, J Hurrell, L Polvani, and H Cullen (2001) The North Atlantic Oscillation, Present,Past and Future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, 12876-12877.Houghton B, Visbeck M (2002) Quasi-decadal salinity fluctuations in the Labrador Sea. Journalof Physical Oceanography 32, 687-701.Visbeck M (2002) Deep velocity profiling using lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler:Bottom track and inverse solutions. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19, 794Visbeck M (2002) The Ocean's Role in Atlantic Climate Variability. Science 297, 2223-2224.Robertson R, Visbeck M, Gordon AL, Fahrbach E (2002) Long-term Variability of Deep andBottom Waters in the Weddell Sea. Deep Sea Research 49, 4791-4806.Krahmann G, Visbeck M (2003) Arctic Ocean sea ice response to Northern Annular Mode-likewind forcing. Geophysical Research Letters 30 (15), 1793, doi:10.1029/2003GL017354.Garabato ACN, Polzin KL, King BA, Heywood KJ, Visbeck M (2004) Widespread IntenseTurbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean. Science 303, 210-213.A73