Participants of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel at their 13th session - 14-15 June 2018, Davos, Switzerland

Sponsors

The Southern Ocean Region Panel is cosponsored by the World Climate Research Programme's the Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR) and the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) projects, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) programme.

Call for participation: A proposed CLIVAR Exchanges issue: 

Physical and biogeochemical studies in the Southern Ocean  by less-developed Antarctic programs
SORP is planning to organize a special issue of the CLIVAR Exchanges, aiming at highlighting research, data, and networks of less known Antarctic programs providing novel insight on physical and biogeochemical processes of the Southern Ocean. Toward this end, SORP has prepared an online questionnaire, inviting participation and gathering some information for the editorial introduction of the issue. We warmly welcome you to take some minutes to fill in the online questions with "yes" or "no" and leave your contact. Thank you in advance for taking your contribution.
The online questionnaire system will be closed on March 10, 2022. 

The Terms of Reference of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel are:

"To serve as a forum for the discussion and communication of scientific advances in the understanding of climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean. To advise CLIVAR, CliC, and SCAR on progress, achievements, new opportunities and impediments in internationally-coordinated Southern Ocean research."

Specific Activities:

1.      Facilitate progress in the development of tools and methods required to assess climate variability, climate change and climate predictability of the ocean-atmosphere-ice system in the Southern Ocean.

2.      Identify opportunities and coordinated strategies to implement these methods, spanning observations, models, experiments, and process studies.

3.      Provide scientific and technical input into international research coordination, collaborating as required with other relevant programs, including the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS).

4.      Monitor and evaluate progress in Southern Ocean research, and identify gaps.

5.      Enhance interaction between the meteorology, oceanography, cryosphere, geology, biogeochemistry and paleoclimate communities with an interest in the climate of the Southern Ocean.

6.      Work with relevant agencies on the standardization, distribution and archiving of Southern Ocean observations.