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ICED  

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  • Short Title: ICED Project URL: http://www.iced.ac.uk/ Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=92 The Southern Ocean is a key system in the global ocean with a crucial role in climate, biogeochemical cycles, maintaining food security and biodiversity. In recent years, some of the strongest regional expressions of global climate change have occurred in Antarctica. However, there is little information on the processes generating these changes, and the wider effects on marine ecosystems. There is a clear and increasing need to develop a coordinated circumpolar approach that assimilates and progresses understanding of climate variability and processes in the Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, the impacts on biogeochemical cycles and the development of management procedures for the sustainable exploitation of living resources. ICED is a new international multidisciplinary initiative launched in response to the increasing need to develop integrated circumpolar analyses of Southern Ocean climate and ecosystem dynamics. ICED has been developed in conjunction with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), through joint support from the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) and Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) programmes. The ICED vision is to develop a coordinated circumpolar approach to better understand climate interactions in the Southern Ocean, the implications for ecosystem dynamics, the impacts on biogeochemical cycles, and the development of sustainable management procedures. (en)

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/37361408-91e1-4023-b64a-3593f0c99a79

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