Third Southern Ocean Panel meeting

Meeting date: June 27-30, 2005
Meeting venue: Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK


Monday 27th- Tuesday 28th June: Modes of Southern Hemisphere Climate Variability Workshop


Wednesday 29th June: IPY implementation

Open session from morning to mid-afternoon, joint with SCAR-AGCS and SCAR/SCOR Expert group and others interested

Status of IPY planning

9:00 9:30 Introduction/Aims : S. Rintoul, E. Fahrbach, C. Summerhayes

9:30 10.05 Antarctic ocean circulation: S. Rintoul

10:05 10:40 Antarctic coasts and margins: K. Heywood


10:40 11:00 tea


11:00 11:35 Meteorology and air-sea interaction: J. Turner, D. Bromwich

11:35 12:00 sea ice, shelf ice, icebergs (Part1, Part2): E. Fahrbach, S. Laxon

12:00 13:00 Discussion: What is missing? Strategy to fill gaps?


13:00 14:00 Lunch


14:00 15:20 IPY implementation:

- Role of Southern Ocean implementation panel, and relationship to other panels
- Action items to facilitate implementation; identify individuals to take responsibility for particular topics
- Future of CASO and known projects under this umbrella.


15:20 15:40 tea


15:40 1700 Follow-up to modes of variability workshop: what are the implications for plans for the IPY (will proposed IPY activities address modes of variability?) and more generally for the panel’s work (will CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR plans address modes of variability and southern hemisphere predictability?).

Thursday 30th June: Panel Business

9:00 9:10 Introduction (S. Rintoul, I. Renfrew)

9:10 9:40 Sustained observations and interaction with OOPC/GSOP (K. Speer)

9:40 10:10 CLIVAR/CCHDC hydrographic and carbon data management (S. Diggs)

10:10 10:40 Southern Ocean Argo data system (R. McCreadie)

10:40 11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00 11:30 Interaction with paleoclimate community (P. Froelich)

11:30 12:00 Status of carbon and biogeochemistry programs and implications for panel (M. Hoppema)

12:00 12:30 Antarctic/Southern Ocean reanalysis (K.Speer)

12:30 13:00 Agreement on work plan and assignment of lead contacts for IPY activities (S. Rintoul to lead)

13:00 14:00 Lunch

Panel members only

14:00 14:30 Review of action items

14:30 14:50 Membership

14:50 15:20 Discussion: How can the panel become more effective and relevant?

15:20 15:30 Next meeting

15:30 15:40 Close