BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9c0bd29355da8fb5747c14338e53661e CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20200715T123338 SUMMARY:Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud Land LOCATION:Online DESCRIPTION:The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group is holding an online multidisciplinary workshop, “T he Southern Ocean in the Weddell Sea and off Dronning Maud Land: unique oce anographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes”, 20-23rd Octo ber 2020.\nBackground: The Weddell Sea including the ocean off Dronning Mau d Land is regionally representative for the high-latitude Southern Ocean du e to its pronounced seasonality, circum-polar currents, deep-water formatio n and multi-year sea-ice cover. In addition, the Weddell Gyre connects wate r masses at the northern margin of the Southern Ocean (SO) in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) with those shaped by the large ice shelves and s ea-ice formation in the southern Weddell Sea. This hydrodynamic regime affe cts a range of physical, geochemical and biological processes. A smaller pr oportion of the western Weddell Sea is already experiencing climate-change and related consequences, including the acceleration of mass loss from ice shelves, enhanced ocean warming and freshening, rising air temperatures, an d changes in wind patterns. In the eastern part, however, the environment i s still relatively stable but it is predicted to experience significant war ming, sea-ice melt and ice-shelf loss until the end of the century. The rec ent re-emergence of the Weddell Polynya in this region, for not entirely un derstood reasons and with potentially significant impact on regional water masses underscores the importance of observing and understanding this regio n.\nThe aims of the workshop are to:\n\n - provide an overview and actual u pdate of scientific findings, which underline the WS-DML as an important ar ea for multi-disciplinary studies (30 registered oral presentations, 10 thr ee-minute flash presentations (substitute for 'poster' session), and a disc ussion on initiating a WS-DML special issue. The SOOS community and also th e individual researchers would benefit from an improved visibility of our r esults published in such a special volume.\n - inform the SOOS WS-DML commu nity about the progress of activities in the area of interest.\n - present  ideas, actions and products for the future including multi-national initiat ives and ongoing and future national plans, including a discussion on the i mpact of COVID-19 on the coming field season, in a plenary session.More inf ormation on the workshop and the Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud Land Regional Working Group can be found on the SOOS website - (http://www.soos.aq/activi ties/rwg/wsdml)http://www .soos.aq/activities/rwg/wsdml\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud L and Regional Working Group is holding an online multidisciplinary workshop, “The Southern Ocean in the Weddell Sea and off Dronning Maud Land: unique oceanographic conditions shape circumpolar and global processes”, 2 0-23rd October 2020.

Background: The Weddell Sea including the ocean off Dronning Maud Land is re gionally representative for the high-latitude Southern Ocean due to its pro nounced seasonality, circum-polar currents, deep-water formation and multi- year sea-ice cover. In addition, the Weddell Gyre connects water masses at the northern margin of the Southern Ocean (SO) in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) with those shaped by the large ice shelves and sea-ice forma tion in the southern Weddell Sea. This hydrodynamic regime affects a range of physical, geochemical and biological processes. A smaller proportion of the western Weddell Sea is already experiencing climate-change and related consequences, including the acceleration of mass loss from ice shelves, enh anced ocean warming and freshening, rising air temperatures, and changes in wind patterns. In the eastern part, however, the environment is still rela tively stable but it is predicted to experience significant warming, sea-ic e melt and ice-shelf loss until the end of the century. The recent re-emerg ence of the Weddell Polynya in this region, for not entirely understood rea sons and with potentially significant impact on regional water masses under scores the importance of observing and understanding this region.

The aims of the workshop are to:

  1. provide an overvi ew and actual update of scientific findings, which underline the WS-DML as an important area for multi-disciplinary studies (30 registered o ral presentations, 10 three-minute flash presentations (substitute for 'pos ter' session), and a discussion on initiating a WS-DML special issue. The S OOS community and also the individual researchers would benefit from an imp roved visibility of our results published in such a special volume.
  2. inform the SOOS WS-DML community about the progress of activities&nbs p;in the area of interest.
  3. present ideas, actions and products for the future including multi-national initiatives and ongoing and f uture national plans, including a discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on t he coming field season, in a plenary session.

More information on the workshop and the Weddell Sea – Dronning Maud Land Regional Working G roup can be found on the SOOS website -http:// www.soos.aq/activities/rwg/wsdml

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