Southern Ocean Meeting at Royal Society

New observations and models of the Southern Ocean, its role in global climate and the carbon cycle

Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire,

July 16-17, 2013

Full details are available at royalsociety.org/events/2013/southern-ocean-models/

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The Southern Ocean is the most remote and the least understood of the world’s oceans, but plays a crucial role in past and present climate change. Currently it is the focus of intense physical and biogeochemical research. This meeting will bring together observationalists and modellers to exchange their latest insights, and will reach across the disciplines to bring together physical oceanographers, climatologists and carbon cycle scientists.

 

  • Session 1: The Southern Ocean: large-scale circulation and climate

    Dr Stephen Rintoul, CSIRO and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, AustraliaSouthern Ocean circulation, variability and links to climate

    Dr Sarah Gille, University of California San Diego, USAPoleward heat transport in the Southern Ocean: identifying roles of winds and fronts

    Professor Mike Meredith, British Antarctic Survey, UKDense water export in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: mechanisms, changes and consequences

    Dr Kevin Speer, FSU, USAFloat observations of the Southern Ocean: insights and implications

    Professor Karen J Heywood, University of East Anglia, UKProcesses at the Antarctic continental slope important for climate and the carbon cycle

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    Session 2: Southern Ocean mixing and controls on circulation

    Dr James R Ledwell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USADiapycnal mixing from coordinated tracer and turbulence measurements

    Professor Raffaele Ferrari, MIT, USARecent observations of Southern Ocean mixing and their implications

    Dr Emily Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, UKSubmesoscale processes and mixing in the Southern Ocean

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    Session 3: Southern Ocean overturning and ventilation

    Professor John Marshall FRS, MIT, USAResponse of the southern ocean and sea-ice to changing winds

    Dr Andy Hogg, ANU, AustraliaCirculation in the Southern Ocean: a conspiracy between wind, buoyancy, eddies and geometry

    Professor Darryn Waugh, John Hopkins University, USAChanges in the ventilation of the southern oceans

    Professor Jorge Sarmiento, Princeton University, USASOBOM: new observations of the Southern Ocean system

    Professor Andrew Watson FRS, University of East Anglia, UKGlacial atmospheric CO2 and role of the Southern Ocean

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    Session 4: Carbon cycle and biogeochemical processes

    Dr Mario Hoppema, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, GermanyPenetration of anthropogenic carbon into the deep Southern Ocean with special emphasis on the Weddell Sea

    Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UKRecent trends in the Southern Ocean CO2 sink

    Dr Dorothee Bakker, University of East Anglia, UKCarbon uptake in the Southern Ocean, where ‘old’ (deep water) and ‘new’ (carbon dioxide from fossil fuels) meet

    Dr Robert Anderson, LDEO, USABiological response to variable dust supply in the South Atlantic sediment record