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SUMMARY:The ocean at the centre of the Earth: The Southern Ocean and its r
 ole in climate - Dr Andrew Meijers
DTSTART:20150305T131000Z
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CONTACT:Evros Loukaides
DESCRIPTION:The great Southern Ocean encircling Antarctic plays a central 
 role in setting the global climate.  It couples the global ocean with the 
 atmosphere and cryosphere\, and is disproportionally dominant in the excha
 nge of climatically critical properties such as heat and carbon dioxide be
 tween the atmosphere and the reservoir of the abyssal ocean.\n\nDespite it
 s importance\, the Southern Ocean is poorly observed and our understanding
  of its dynamics\, particularly in response to observed anthropogenic forc
 ing\, are still evolving.  In this talk I will discuss the role of the Sou
 thern Ocean within the Antarctic and global climate\, and present recent r
 esearch\, both by myself and others.  This\nwill be accessible to a genera
 l audience and touch on observational work\, modelling\, theory and future
  predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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