[CRYOLIST] AGU 2020 Fall Meeting session: "Sources and consequences of Southern Ocean freshening: Toward synthesising observations and modelling" (OS024)

Dear Cryolist members,

"Sources and consequences of Southern Ocean freshening: Toward synthesising observations and modelling" is an AGU 2020 Fall Meeting session jointly hosted by  the WCRP-CLIVAR, WCRP-CliC, and SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) and the SCAR and WCRP-CliC Antarctic Sea-ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt), We would welcome your abstract submissions for:

OS024 - Sources and consequences of Southern Ocean freshening: Toward synthesising observations and modelling:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/105151

The Southern Ocean is consistently freshening, particularly in the upper layers and near the Antarctic coast. Freshening has been attributed to an increase in precipitation, basal melting of ice shelves and enhanced sea-ice melt and export. Freshening has also been observed in the abyssal Antarctic bottom water, formed close to the Antarctic coast and exported globally. The exact proportionality is highly uncertain, but all these processes contribute to increasing sea level rise and the formation of sea ice through strengthening surface stratification. As the climate system continues to warm the relative magnitude of these processes may change leading to uncertain impacts on polar and global climate.

In this session we will bring together early career researchers and senior experts of ocean and cryosphere sciences to examine the current state of knowledge on Southern Ocean freshening. We are particularly interested in work closing the gap between observations and modelling.

Regards,

Torge Martin (SORP co-chair, primary convenor)

Tore Hattermann (SORP member, co-convenor)

Marilyn Raphael (ASPeCt chair, co-convenor)

Inga Smith (SORP co-chair, co-convenor)