Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-nwzlb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-28T16:32:39.332Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The role of the Southern Ocean in global processes: an earth system science approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2004

ANTONIO J. BUSALACCHI
Affiliation:
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Abstract

The Southern Ocean is unique among the world's oceans in its linkage across the other major ocean basins, its rich and unusual marine ecosystem, and its interaction between the physical climate system and the biogeochemistry of the region. This paper provides an overview and conclusions of a meeting at the Royal Society in London in which an Earth System Science approach was taken to our present and future understanding of the Southern Ocean. A brief summary of what Southern Ocean science has achieved to date, challenges that need to be confronted, and the key questions for the future within an Earth System Science approach are provided.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)