Workshop Date: 1-3rd October 2007

Location: Haus der Wissenschaften, Bremen, Germany


A report from the meeting (SOOS interim report) is now available

 

Introduction

Revised Agenda

Workplan

Background Documents

Completed Questionnaires

Attendees

Local Logistics


Introduction:


The aim of this meeting is to develop a plan for a (post IPY) Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), building upon an initial meeting held in Hobart last year. The first day of the meeting will consist of a series of summary lectures and discussion about the SOOS structure. The second and third days will see people split into various groups to tackle different (though interconnected) aspects of any SOOS. The idea will be that these groups will articulate (i) why sustained observations are needed and what science/policy questions they address (ii) what mix of observations are required to address these questions, (iii) what is presently done and possible, and finally (iv) a vision for the future. At the end of the meeting we will aim to produce a well thought out discussion of the relative priorities of any observing system. Post meeting this will go out to the wider community for discussion and modification.





Agenda:


Sunday September 30

18.00-21.00: Ice-breaker at the Haus der Wissenschaften(meeting venue)

Day 1: Monday October 1

Setting the scene...

10.00-10.20: Introduction - Eberhard F, Eileen H, Mike S

10.20-11.00: Brief presentations of GOOS recommendations - Keith A and Albert F

Coffee/Tea

11.30-11.50: Summary of input from questionnaires - Mike S

11.50-13.00: Sustained Observations in the SO region - Steve R and Kevin S

Lunch

14.30-18.00: Discussion of SOOS structure

19.30 onwards: Meeting Dinner at the Ratskel


Day 2: Tuesday October 2

09.00-16.00: Break-out groups (focussing on e.g. physical system, ecosystems, biogeochem etc.) to develop sections of a SOOS plan (Coffee/Tea at 11.00-11.30).

Coffee/Tea

16.30-18.00: Review of break-out groups' work. Different groups to report back.

(Coffee/Tea at 11.00-11.30)


Day 3: Wednesday October 3

09.00- 09.30: The SOOS Virtual Observatory - Taco de B.

09.30-12.00: Revision of plans developed on Day 2 (cross membership of working groups)

12.00-13.00: Review of break-out groups' work. Different groups to report back

14.00-15.00: Review of revised detailed plan outline (sections and pages per section )

15.00-16.00: Identification of post-session Writing Assignments, with strict attention to page length




Workplan:

1. Pre-meeting-

Each observing/research group to complete a questionnaire detailing, for example:

(i) what observations of interest to them are currently made in the Southern Ocean?

(ii) what observing systems of interest to them are currently in place?

(iii) what are the gaps (a) technological, (b) process understanding, (c) geographic, (d) temporal and historical, (e) modelling, in areas of interest to them?

(iv) how can research activities contribute to a sustained observing system?

(v) what priorities can they suggest (a) for the short term; (b) for the long term?

(vi) other comments that may be relevant for our purposes?


Each user group to provide a table of requirements:- what measurements are needed, for what purpose by what means, at what geographical and temporal spacing, to what precision/accuracy.


Questionnaires and Tables of Requirements to be provided to the Secretariat (executive.officer@scar.org)


2. Post-meeting-

Four months after meeting (end Feb. 2008):

Completion of writing assignments

Five months after meeting (end March 2008):

Completion of draft plan

Circulation of plan to the wider community for feedback

Four months after meeting (beginning of July 2008):

Presentation of the plan, and discussion, at expanded meeting of the SCAR/SCOR Oceanography Group, and as part of the SCAR Ocean Science Conference (St Petersburg, Russia) to obtain further feedback

Nine months after meeting (August 2008):

Inclusion of feedback to finalise plan

Ten months after meeting (September 2008):

Publish the plan




Background documents:

Strategy for Ocean Carbon in the Southern Ocean Observing System -Hood et al. ()

ICED Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (draft under review) - ()

Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness...the way forward (report from International Workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, Hobart July 2007) - ()

IGOS-cryosphere report ()

Executive Summary of the South Atlantic MOC meeting held in Buenos Aires (). Also slides showing ongoing and proposed observations ()

SOOS background document from the first SOOS meeting (). Presentations from this meeting can be accessed here

Summary SOOS article (GLOBEC Newsletter, in press - a version also submitted to CLIVAR Exchanges) - Sparrow ()

Observing the Polar Oceans during the International Polar Year and Beyond (WMO Bulletin, in press) -Summerhayes et al. ( Text , Figures 1 , Figures 2)

Monitoring and Understanding Southern OceanVariability and its Impact on Climate: A Strategy for Sustained Observations - Rintoul et al.()

Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions - Biuw et al. ()

GIS based data compilation of the new International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) - Ott et al. (). See also www.ibcso.org

Background papers to the SO-CPR survey (,,,,)





Completed Questionnaires:


POGO

JCOMM

CAML

SCOR

ICED

CNES

Plankton

Animals as Tracers

CLIVAR

SOPHOCLES

GOOS

ASPeCt/CliC

IPAB

SOLAS

Carbon

iAnZone + powerpoint

CCAMLR




Attendees (as of 28/9/07):

Project

Representative

Country base

Discipline

 Reply
1

IMBER

Julie Hall

NZ

Bio

 Y

2

SOIP/CASO

Steve Rintoul

Aus

Phys

 Y

3

GEOTRACES

Hein De Baar

NL

Chem

 Y

4

IOC

Keith Alverson

Fra

Phys

 Y

5

iAnZone

Eberhard Fahrbach

Ger

Phys

 Y

6

CAML

Victoria Wadley

Aus

Bio

 Y

7

GEBCO-IBCSO

Norbert Ott

Ger

Geo

 Y

8

CLIVAR/Argo

Kevin Speer

USA

Phys

 Y

9

CliC/IGOS/IPAB

Vladimir Ryabinin

Swi

Phys

 Y

10

OOPC

Albert Fischer

Fra

Phys

 Y

11

SCOR

Ed Urban

USA

Phys

 Y

12

GOOS

Detlef Stammer

Ger

Phys

 Y

13

CPR-AG

Graham Hosie

Aus

Bio

 Y

14

JCOMM

Etienne Charpentier

Aus

Met

 Y

15

POGO-AGCS

Mike Meredith

UK

Phys

 Y

16

SEaOS

Dan Costa

USA

Bio

 Y

17

ICED

Eugene Murphy

UK

Bio

 Y

18

GLOBEC

Eileen Hoffman

USA

Bio-Phys

 Y

19

ESA

Pierre-Philippe-Matthieu

Ita

Rem.Sens

 Y
20 COMNAP Hartwig Gernandt Ger General Y
21 IPY Dave Carlson UK Phys Y
22 CCAMLR Edith Fanta Bra Bio Y
23 IAATO Werner Stambach Ger General Y
24 NOAA Steve Piotrowicz US Phys Y
25 SCAR Mike Sparrow UK Phy Y
26 GOODHOPE Isabelle Ansorge S. Africa Phys Y
27 AGCS Shigeru Aoki Japan Phys Y
28 CliC Vicky Lytle Nor Cryo Y
29 SOIP/GOODHOPE Sabrina Speich Fra Phy-Model Y
30 IOCCP Mario Hoppema Ger Carbon Y
31 General Lars Kaleschke Ger Cryo Y
32 JCADM Taco de Bruin Neth. Data Y



Logistics

The local logistics contact is Birgit Chiaventone (Birgit.Chiaventone@awi.de)

A hotel reservation form (in pdf format) is available here (forms should be returned to the Bremen Tourism Office as indicated)

The meeting will be held at the Haus der Wissenschaften, which is within walking distance of the suggested hotels. A map can be downloaded here. Directions to the meeting dinner can be downloaded here

General information on Bremen