Rapid Climate Change (RAPID)
Tropical cyclone Catarina, 26 March 2004. The first hurricane recorded in the South Atlantic. Image courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response project at NASA/GSFC.
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The Rapid Climate Change programme (RAPID) is an effort to understand the causes of sudden changes in the Earth's climate. Studies of past climate have shown that large changes can occur over timescales as small as ten or twenty years. To find out more, follow these links
- Introduction — A non-technical insight into the RAPID programme.
- Project overview — A brief description of the main aims of the programme.
- The RAPID Data Centre's (RDC) role — Our duties as the RAPID designated data centre.
- Official web site — The Natural Environment Research Council's RAPID pages.
- Data policy — The data management policy approved by the RAPID Steering Committee.
- Data submission — Guidelines on submitting data to the data centre.
- RDC processing — What will RDC do with the data?
- Cruise programme — A list of RAPID cruises, past and future, with access to cruise data inventories.
- Models — Access to model runs generated or required by RAPID projects. Model data can also be uploaded.
- Moorings — Information about moored instrument arrays deployed in the North Atlantic, with access to mooring data inventories.
- Realtime data — Access to realtime data from the RAPID Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) monitoring array at 26.5°N.
- Data inventories — Access to sortable inventories of all data, cruise data, mooring data or palaeo observational data.
- Data delivery — How to access RAPID data.
- Other links — Links to RAPID sites and other relevant areas.
