International Good Hope-SOSCEx 2019 Experiment: South African Climate and Ecosystem Science in the Southern Ocean

International Good Hope-SOSCEx 2019 Experiment: South African Climate and Ecosystem Science in the Southern Ocean

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Description

The overall scientific goals of SOSCEx-GoodHope are to make significant advances in the understanding of the seasonal cycle of air-sea fluxes, the biological carbon pump, storage of carbon and heat and the ocean physics of preferential predator feeding in the Southern Ocean. It will also provide a South African contribution to the global basin scale observations coordinated by GO-SHIP and GEOTRACES. The international dimension of this work is coordinated with the UK funded ORCHESTRA and CASCADE projects (latter in review), located in the Drake Passage area in 2018/2019 as well as the SR3 line lead from Hobart, Australia. Collectively, these studies will provide an unprecedented insight into these sectors of the Southern Ocean simultaneously.

Details

Type
Projects
Belem statement areas
Ocean Observation
Acronym
International Good Hope
Time frame
n/a - 2020

Contacts

Name
Pedro Monteiro
Affiliation
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research