Variability of exchanges in the northern seas

European researchers are collaborating on a project aimed to measure and model the variability of the fluxes between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans as part of a major international effort to understand the factors that control the Earth's climate. The results from this project...

European researchers are collaborating on a project aimed to measure and model the variability of the fluxes between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans as part of a major international effort to understand the factors that control the Earth's climate. The results from this project - dubbed the 'VEINs project' (variability of exchanges in the northern seas) - will contribute to a longer term system of critical measurements needed to understand the high-latitude oceans' role in steering climatic changes each decade.

The project is funded by the European Commission's MAST III programme, under the EU's Fourth Framework Programme. It started in February 1997, will last until July 2000 and involves 18 institutions from 9 European countries.

As the VEINs project produces more results, it will disseminate them on its new website at:

URL: http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/veins~/maintext.html

This includes links to the project office whose task is to obtain, evaluate and disseminate information concerning scientists' activities in the VEINs project. Access to data from field observations and model outputs at the end of the project - collated by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) - will also be available from here.

Those interested will also be able to find abstracts of publications by VEINs researchers presenting the results from VEINs itself alongside other work of relevance to its objectives of VEINs. A list of all the participants in VEINS is also available from here as well as links to related sites on the World Wide Web.