Rapid Climate Change programme

Rapid Climate Change (RAPID) was a £20 million, six-year (2001–2007) programme of the Natural Environment Research Council. The programme aims to improve our ability to quantify the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, with a main (but not exclusive) focus on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation.

Website: www.rapid.ac.uk
Principal Investigator: Prof. Meric Srokosz (Science coordinator of RAPID)
Email: mas@noc.ac.uk

Project Dates:

April 2003 to March 2021

Funding:

NERC – National Capability
NERC – Strategic Research
NERC - Capital

Project

Aim

RAPID-AMOC (2014–2018) builds on the RAPID (2001–2007) and RAPID-WATCH (2008–2014) programmes and will extend the time series of the strength and structure of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to 16 years.

Observing and understanding the changes in the AMOC is critically important for identifying the mechanisms of decadal climate variability and change, and for interannual-to-decadal climate prediction. Sustained observations are also necessary for assessing the possibility of future abrupt change in the AMOC similar to those seen in palaeoclimate records.

People

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Prof. Meric Srokosz

Dr Val Byfield