"Projects under the CASO umbrella"

The following is a list of projects specifically under the CASO umbrella, though there are many others that are of relevance to CASO aims.

An enhanced network of Antarctic Sea Ice Buoys: an optimal deployment for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 developed by the WCRP/SCAR International Programme for Antarctic Buoys

Transport through gaps across the Kerguelen Plateau and inter-basin exchange  (Cross-Kerguelen Exchange)

Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean: Mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current  (DIMES)

SOChIC - A multidisciplinary study in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean and in the Ross Sea.  (SOChIC: Southern Ocean Chokepoints - an Italian Contribution)

Deep Ventilation and Ice Variability from proxy records  (VEnICE from proxy)

Search for Key-Events in Polar regions TrIggering abrupt Climate changes  (SKEPTIC)

Improvement of regional altimeter corrections and tracking of eddies in the high-latitude Southern Ocean (IRACETSO)

Weddell and Ross Corridors, Polar Climate Transects; United States Contribution to CASO (Climate in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean)  (Weddell and Ross Corridor Arrays [WRCA])

Sampling ocean-sea ice interaction in the Antarctic Dipole centers  (ADP moorings)

Russian Antarctic Oceanography Studies  (RAOS)

Inter-Ocean Exchange  (Inter-Ocean Exchange)

Studies on Antarctic Ocean and Global Enviornment  (STAGE)

Monitoring of the upper ocean circulation, transport and water masses between Africa and Antarctica  

Sea Ice Mounted Oceanographic Profiler  (SIMOP)

Biogeochemistry of the southern Ocean: interactions between Nutrients, dynamics, and ecosystem Structure  (BONUS-GoodHope)