Two SOOS relevant contributions are published as sub-sections in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "State of the Climate in 2017" report.

Full BAMS publication here

Antarctic chapter here

Citations:

Swart, S., K. Johnson, M. R. Mazloff, A. Meijers, M. P. Meredith, L. Newman, and J-B. Sallée, 2018:  Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S185-S190, doi:10.1175 /2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

Swart, S., E. C. Campbell, C. H Heuzé, K. Johnson, J. L. Lieser, R. Massom, M. Mazloff, M. Meredith, P. Reid, J-B. Sallée, and S. Stammerjohn, 2018: Return of the Maud Rise polynya: Climate litmus or sea ice anomaly? [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S188-S189, doi:10.1175 /2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1