Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2002/00453
Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge: interannual to millennial Thermohaline Circulation variability.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor S Bacon, NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), NERC Strategic Research Division
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor D Stow, Heriot-Watt University, Sch of Energy, Geosci, Infrast & Society
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor EJ Rohling, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Grant held at:
- NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), NERC Strategic Research Division
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Ocean Circulation
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Quaternary Science
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Knowledge of the history of the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) is crucial to attempts to forecast it, particularly for model validation. Cape Farewell is one of the few locations in the North Atlantic which can provide a continuous record of the THC from the present day back as far as the Last Glacial Maximum (24,000 yr B.P.). Southward flow in the North Atlantic at 60 degrees N is concentrated in the narrow (~200 km wide) western boundary current system. Also, Eirik Ridge, a contourite drift just south of Cape Farewell, is intimately related to the deep western boundary current (DWBC) there. We propose a novel combination of hydrography and palaeoceanography to determine the variability of the DWBC on timescales from days, years, decades and millennia, to generate modern and palaeo-DWBC flux magnitudes.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2002/00453
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Rapid Climate Change
This grant award has a total value of £160,055
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £36,884 | £73,493 | £49,680 |
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