Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research

The Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) is an oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical research institute that is sponsored jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and the University of Hawaiʻi (UH). It is one of 16 NOAA Cooperative Institutes (CIs).^[1]

The JIMAR research themes are:

Tsunamis (and other long period ocean waves)
Climate
Equatorial oceanography
Fisheries oceanography
Tropical meteorology
Coastal research

References

↑ "Cooperative Institutes". NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Retrieved 2014-04-16.

External links

Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)

Coordinates: 21°17′52″N 157°48′58″W / 21.297911°N 157.816114°W / 21.297911; -157.816114

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