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The 7th SOOS Scientific Steering Committee Meeting was held in Hangzhou
Date：2018-05-12
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On May 6-11, the 7th SOOS Scientific Steering Committee Meeting and The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Annual Meeting was held in Hangzhou. The international research experts of the Antarctic Pole and Southern Ocean from Australia, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, South Korea, Turkey, Holland and Chinese scientists in the field of polar science and marine science attended this meeting. Chen Dake, academician of the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics (SOED), served as the member of the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee and the representative of SOOS in China, Qin Weijia, director of Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration, Xu Ren, vide director of Polar Research Institute of China, and Huang Daji, deputy director of our institute, attended the meeting to extend congratulations and introduced China's Antarctic scientific expeditions and the research strength and scientific plan of Chinese polar research. The meeting was undertaken by SOED on behalf of China.
The Southern Ocean connects the three major oceanic basins, and also links the upper and deeper circulation of the global ocean circulation. Therefore, the Southern Ocean will significantly affect the climate pattern and the cycle of carbon and nutrient salt, and its change will have a global impact. The current observation results show that the Southern Ocean is changing: the warming rate of the Southern Ocean is higher than the average global warming rate; the salinity change driven by precipitation and ice melting changes has been observed in the upper and the deep sea; the carbon absorption of the Southern Ocean slows down the rate of atmospheric climate change, but causes the basin-wide ocean acidification; the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean is responding to changes in the physical and chemical environment. However, the shortage and incompleteness of the Southern Ocean and polar observational data make it difficult to accurately assess the causes and possible impacts of the changes in the Southern Ocean. Therefore, sustainable and multidisciplinary observations are urgently needed for the discovery, interpretation and response to changes in the Southern Ocean. For this purpose, the international cooperation plan-the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) emerges at the right moment. SOOS is jointly initiated by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), aiming to provide to all international interested parties the basic observational data about the dynamics and changes of the Southern Ocean by designing, publicizing and implementing observational data with cost-effectiveness.
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