Meridional Overturning Circulation and HeatFlux Array (MOCHA)

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Principal Investigators: Prof. Shane Elipot

In collaboration with Dr.  Ben Moat (UK NOC) and Dr. Denis Volkov and Ryan Smith (CIMAS/UM and NOAA/AOML). This project builds on 20+ years of leadership by Prof. William E. Johns.

MOCHA is a collaborative project, partnered with the UK RAPID Program and the NOAA Western Boundary Time Series Program, to measure the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and ocean heat transport in the North Atlantic Ocean. These transports are primarily associated with the Thermohaline Circulation. Simply put, warm waters move poleward at the surface of the ocean, where they cool and sink, to return equatorward in the deep ocean.

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