CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel

About Us

Terms of Reference

This panel serves as a platform for discussing and sharing scientific advancements in the understanding of climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean. Its goal is to provide advice to CLIVAR, CliC, and SCAR on the progress, achievements, new opportunities, and challenges in internationally coordinated Southern Ocean research.

Specific Activities:

  1. Facilitate progress in the development of tools and methods required to assess climate variability, climate change and climate predictability of the ocean-atmosphere-ice system in the Southern Ocean.
  2. Identify opportunities and coordinated strategies to implement these methods, spanning observations, models, experiments, and process studies.
  3. Provide scientific and technical input into international research coordination, collaborating as required with other relevant programs, including the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS).
  4. Monitor and evaluate progress in Southern Ocean research, and identify gaps.
  5. Enhance interaction between the meteorology, oceanography, cryosphere, geology, biogeochemistry and paleoclimate communities with an interest in the climate of the Southern Ocean.
  6. Work with relevant agencies on the standardization, distribution and archiving of Southern Ocean observations.

CLIVAR Task Team: Southern Ocean Freshwater release model experiments Initiative (SOFIA)

Southern Panel Members

Name Role Institute Country
Ariaan Purich Co-Chair 2026 Monash University Australia
Carolina Dufour Co-Chair 2027 LOPS/Ifremer France
Wonsun Park Member 2026 IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University Korea
Channing Prend Member 2026 University of Washington USA
Yoshihiro Nakayama Member 2026 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University Japan
Torge Martin Member 2024 GEOMAR Germany
Clive McMahon Member 2024 Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences Australia
Alexander Haumann Member 2024 AWI Germany
Natalie Robinson Member 2025 New Zealand’s Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research New Zealand
Tore Hattermann Member 2024 Norwegian Polar Institute Norway
Alvaro Scardilli Member 2025 Servicio de Hidrografía Naval Argentina
Ted Scambos Member 2025 University of Colorado Boulder USA
Elin Darelius Member 2025 University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research Norway
Luciano Pezzi Ex officio Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) Brazil

PROS4SORP

PROS4SORP Seminars

A quarterly seminar series Presenting Recent Ocean Science for the Southern Ocean Region Panel.