Contribution towards SOLAS National Annual Report
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Notes:
Reporting Period is January 2014 – December 2014
For the list of National Representatives please see the list provided in the email
1. Scientific highlights
Describe 1 or 2 scientific highlights with a title, a text (max. 200 words), a figure with legend and full
references for each highlight. Please focus on results that would not have happened without
SOLAS.
Example to be deleted:
Nordic seas ice free during glaciation
New maps showing the temperature of the sea surface at the height of the last ice age 23,000 to
19,000 years ago are helping scientists improve climate models’ ability to predict future climate
change [Fig]. The results – part of IGBP’s Past Global Changes project – show that even at the
coldest point of the last ice age, Nordic seas remained ice-free during the summer. The research,
which appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience, provides new insight into the sensitivity of the
Earth’s climate system, and will help improve existing climate models. The project, called the
Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface, or MARGO, pulled
together the work of around 50 specialists in the ancient climate. These experts combined 696
estimates of sea surface temperature from different methods in different areas into a single map.
[1]
1. MARGO Project Members (2009) Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at
the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience 2: 127 – 132.
Figure: Study of sea-surface
temperatures over time. A map of
the world was divided into grids,
within which cells were identified.
The cells were given a specific
temperature resulting from the
weighted average of data collected
in the different paleothermometers
analyses. Data was collected mainly
in the North Atlantic, Antarctic and
tropical regions, considered key to
the understanding of climate
systems.
2. International interactions and collaborations (including contributions to international
assessments such as the IPCC, links with observation communities, links with policy
makers or socio-economics circles, etc.)
Example to be deleted:
* GLOBEC-IMBER-SOLAS-EUROCEANS symposium on “Dynamics of Eastern Boundary
Upwelling Ecosystems: integrative and comparative approaches”. Las Palmas, Spain, 2-6 June
2008. This was the first symposium co-sponsored by all three SCOR/IGBP marine projects. The
symposium considered most aspects of the dynamics, structure and functioning of the four major
eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems (Benguela, California, Canary and Humboldt Current
systems). The symposium was convened by Pierre Fréon, IRD (France), Javier Aristegui, ULPGC
(Spain) and Manuel Barange, PML (UK). Over 350 scientists attended the symposium.
Approximately 50 papers are being processed for the Proceedings in Progress in Oceanography.
3. Activities/main accomplishments (research projects, cruises, special events, workshops,
remote sensing used, model and data intercomparisons etc.)
4. Human dimensions (outreach, capacity building, public engagement etc.)
5. Top 10 publications in 2013 (Reports, ACCEPTED articles, models, datasets, products,
website etc.)
For journal articles please follow the proposed format:
Author list (surname and initials (one space but no full stops between initials), year of publication,
article title, full title of publication (italics), volume, page numbers, DOI (DOI optional).
6. Goals, priorities and plans for future activities/events
7. Other comments