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CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel organized the forth telecon in 2021

The forth regular telecon in 2021 of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was held on 3rd June.

The co-chair Elisabeth Sikes, also a member of the Southern Ocean Task Force, she mentioned that now that SORP has officially been involved in the Southern Ocean UN Decade, it was encouraged for the SORP members to join in the process of its development. She would bring the comments and ideas to the Southern Ocean UN Decade.

CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel organized the third telecon in 2021

The third regular telecon in 2021 of CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) was held at 6th May. Since the members of SORP are widely spread in different continents, the regular meeting has been set to alternate between two different time to accommodate every member’s time zone.

During the meeting, the progresses of the on planning workshops, the ‘NORP/SORP joint workshop’ and the ‘Fluxes in the sea-ice zone’ were discussed.

SORP telecon in December 2020

The CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) organized a two-session telecon on Dec. 8 and 10, 2020, discussing the task plan in 2021.  

The co-chairs emphasized the importance of maintaining the connection with other communities. In addition to its three co-sponsors, SORP has established close connection with SOOS, YOPP-SH, ASPeCt and OOPC. Besides, the co-chairs hoped to build cooperation with the UN Decade of Ocean Science in the future.

[Call for abstracts] Sources and consequences of Southern Ocean freshening: Toward synthesising observations and modelling

The CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel is now inviting abstracts on " Sources and consequences of Southern Ocean freshening: Toward synthesising observations and modelling " for its session at the 2020 AGU fall meeting.

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