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Second newsletter of the EPOC project.

Simon Wett and Katja Schultz set sail on the research vessel Thalassa for a 4-week expedition to the Transition Zone. The cruise is part of the CROSSROAD project, led by Damien Desbruyeres, but visiting the deployment sites of EPOC assets for acoustic download of data.

First newsletter of the EPOC project.

Today, we kick off the AMOC workshop on ‘Meeting AMOC observation needs in a changing climate’. The workshop is co-sponsored by WCRP CLIVAR (by the CLIVAR AMOC Task Team, US CLIVAR and the EPOC project, and brings together members of the scientific community to discuss the value of AMOC observing, observational priorities and a roadmap for future AMOC observing.

Eleanor Frajka-Williams attended the Royal Society meeting on “Atlantic overturning: new observations and challenges”, and gave a talk on ‘AMOC observations: Should we continue them, why and how?’. Talks are recorded and available from the meeting website or on YouTube.

We held a 2-day in-person meeting at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, for the EPOC consortium from 27-28 October.

The rate of Greenland melting has been accelerating in the past 2 decades. Not only is Greenland releasing more freshwater into the oceans, it’s doing so to a greater extent each year.

In the wintertime in the Labrador Sea, eastward travelling cold dry air from the Canadian Arctic archipelago and storms from northeast American encounter their first bit of ocean over the subpolar North Atlantic.