Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate ...

• Main Author: Sallée, Jean-Baptiste
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2023
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-3990; https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5019818

<!--!introduction!--> The Southern Ocean greatly contributes to the regulation of the global climate by controlling important heat and carbon exchanges between the atmosphere and the ocean. Rates of climate change on decadal time scales are therefore impacted by oceanic processes taking place in the Southern Ocean, yet too little is known about these processes. Limitations come both from the lack of observations in this extreme environment and its inherent sensitivity to intermittent processes at scales that are not well captured in current Earth system models. The Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate (SO-CHIC) programme was launched to address this knowledge gap, with the overall objective to understand and quantify variability of heat and carbon budgets in the Southern Ocean through an investigation of the key physical processes controlling exchanges between the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice using a combination of observational and modelling approaches. Here, we provide a brief overview ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ...