The Southern Ocean

Observing System

Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations

Field Coordination

Enhancing Capabilities

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Special Issue: Call for papers

Due Date: 31 March 2022

Guest editors: Markus Janout, Laura de Steur, Sebastien Moreau, Mia Wege, Mario Hoppema, Christian Haas, and Carol Robinson

The Weddell Sea Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group is hosting a special issue in the journals of Copernicus following the 2020 online WSDML Working Group meeting. It is an inter-journal special issue of three journals Ocean Science, Biogeosciences and The Cryosphere entitled "The Weddell Sea and the ocean off Dronning Maud Land: unique oceanographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes – a multi-disciplinary study (OS/BG/TC inter-journal SI)".

You can submit your manuscript to one of these journals, and it will be part of the same online special issue. Upon submission, you will be asked whether the manuscript shall be part of a special issue, then please choose ours with the above title. When the manuscript is accepted for publication, it will be published on the website of the journal without delay.

Submission pages:

For Ocean Science: https://www.ocean-science.net/submission.html

For Biogeosciences: https://www.biogeosciences.net/submission.html

For The Cryosphere: https://www.the-cryosphere.net/submission.html

You can find information on our special issue on all the journals' websites:

https://www.ocean-science.net/articles_and_preprints/scheduled_sis.html

https://www.biogeosciences.net/articles_and_preprints/scheduled_sis.html

https://www.the-cryosphere.net/articles_and_preprints/scheduled_sis.html

The special issue is not limited to participants of the workshop; it is open to anybody publishing work in the Weddell region. Please share this information through your channels.

Data Efforts

Data sharing is at the heart of SOOS. Our aim is to support the development of systems that maximise the discoverability, access and impact of Southern Ocean observations, no matter who collected them, or when, or why.

SOOSmap

Explore and download curated and standardised Southern Ocean observational data on an interactive map.

Metadata

Search the SOOS portal at NASA's Common Metadata Directory (CMR) for worldwide Southern Ocean data.

DueSouth

Find and share upcoming expeditions to the Southern Ocean with international colleagues.

Regional Action

Explore Regional Working Groups that coordinate and implemente the observing system in each region.

Field Coordination

SOOS brings together existing communities and observational efforts to enhance the coordinated collection of observations, through the development of coordination networks and tools. These facilitate collaborative logistics, sharing of resources, alignment of observational priorities, and supporting community effort towards achieving the SOOS mission.

Enhancing Capabilities

SOOS enhances our ability to observe the Southern Ocean integrated, multidisciplinary and sustained way, through support of community-driven working groups and task teaks. These efforts focus on development and implementation of technologies, building networks, improvement of observational design, and development of associated methods.

Working Groups

Explore Capability Working Groups (CWGs), developing and enhancing important Southern Ocean observational capabilities.

Task Teams

Find Task Teams producing specific products, organising events, or solving a particular observing problem.

Latest News & Events

Enhancing observations of the Southern Ocean

SOOS is an international initiative of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). SOOS' mission is facilitating the collection and delivery of essential physical, chemical and biological oceanographic observations from the Southern Ocean, to ensure all stakeolders have access to the data required to address key societal issues, such as sea-level rise, heat, freshwater and nutrient transport, and ecosystem responses to changes in the system.

More about SOOS

5-Year Plan

The SOOS 5-year Implementation Plan defines the actions of the SOOS community for the period 2021-2025.

Scientific Drivers

The Southern Ocean community has identified 5 scientific challenges that are used to focus our observational priorities.

Governance

SOOS has a simple governance structure, with close connections to external scientific and coordination bodies.

Contact Us

The International Project Office (IPO) is the central hub of the SOOS effort, click above for details on how to contact the IPO.

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