Autosub Under Ice (AUTOSUB) http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/SOES/MSC/OC/CEO/aui/aui.html
A 5-year, £5.86 million programme to explore the marine environment beneath floating ice shelves using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the programme brings together UK researchers from a broad range of disciplines to investigate the role of sub-ice shelf processes in the climate system.
Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) http://aragorn.gkss.de/deutsch/Baltex/
BALTEX is designed as a cage experiment to assess the total heat and water flux divergence of the BALTEX area. The basic BALTEX programme elements include numerical modelling, data assimilation, experimental and numerical process studies, re-analysis of existing data sets, and application of remote sensing.
Climate Variability and Predictability Study (CLIVAR) http://www.clivar.org/
An interdisciplinary research effort within the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) focussing on the variability and predictability of the slowly varying components of the climate system. It investigates the physical and dynamical processes in the climate system that occur on seasonal, interannual, decadal and centennial time-scales.