Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interactions (SASSI)

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Sassi; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; International Polar Year; IPY
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.618.4334; http://www.scor-int.org/Project_Summit_1/PCR-IANZONE2.pdf

This document has been prepared by the International Antarctic Zone (iAnZone) programme. It is seen as a supplement to “The Role of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in Past, Present and Future Climate: A Strategy for the International Polar Year ” submitted to International Polar Year (IPY) by Steve Rintoul on behalf of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Panel. iAnZone is a SCOR-Affiliated Organization and anticipates that an additional affiliation with SCAR will be approved before the end of 2004. iAnZone’s goal is to advance our understanding of climate-relevant processes within that region of the Southern Ocean poleward of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The iAnZone membership has identified a significant number of issues and aims that are shared with the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Panel within an IPY strategy context. Submitted in the interest of furthering these aims and in helping to develop a coordinated IPY programme for the Southern Ocean, this document is based on input from a broad international group of primarily physical oceanographic investigators with experience of the Southern Ocean. It is the outcome of a three-day iAnZone open workshop held in August 2004 at which input was presented from the US