SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
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CO2 is a greenhouse gas which means that it absorbs outgoing long wave radiation and in so doing warms the atmosphere. Of the approximately 3 billion tonnes of CO pumped into the atmosphere annually by human activities, about half stays there, warming the planet through the greenhouse effect. The rest is soaked up by natural processes, more-or-less Continue Reading

SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
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Their previous long term mission, the Southern Ocean Seasonal Cycle Experiment (SOSCEx, Swart et al., 2012) was conducted between September 2012 and March 2013, when five state-of-the-art autonomous Seagliders were deployed in the Southern Ocean from aboard South Africa’s newest polar ship, the SA Agulhas II. The gliders observed the SAZ region of the SE Continue Reading

SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
SOCCO releases its Phase IV Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy: 2022-2027
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This voyage combined the annual transportation of relief and logistics supplies, and the ferrying of the SANAE over-wintering team to South Africa’s Antarctic base, with the Southern Ocean Carbon Climate Observatory (SOCCO) research programme led by the CSIR. According to CSIR ocean systems and climate chief scientist and head of the SOCCO programme, Dr Pedro Continue Reading