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<font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:windowtext">We would like to draw your attention to the </span><span style="color:windowtext">“</span><b><span style="color:windowtext">Physical
and Biogeochemical Processes in the Southern Ocean: Observations, State Estimation and Modeling</span></b><span style="color:windowtext">”</span><span style="color:windowtext"> session (<b>Session ID: 9260</b>) at the 2016 Ocean
Sciences meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana on 21-26 February 2016. </span><span style="color:windowtext"> The session description is provided below.</span><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></font></h2>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px"><b>The abstract deadline is 23 September 2015. </b>Registration and abstract submission is now open at <a href="https://osm.agu.org/2016/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://osm.agu.org/2016/</a><b><u></u><u></u></b></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Please, forward this announcement to your colleagues, collaborators or students who may also be interested.<u></u><u></u></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">We hope you will consider contributing to the session and are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and having an exciting session with your
participation.<u></u><u></u></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><font face="Times New Roman">The Southern Ocean, south of 30°S, occupies just under one-third of the surface ocean
area, yet it accounts for a disproportionate share of the vertical exchange of heat, carbon and nutrients between the deep ocean, the surface ocean and the atmosphere. Understanding the physical and biogeochemical processes that determine the Southern Ocean’s
mean state, variability, and response to external forcing is critical to our understanding of the climate system as a whole, and for reducing uncertainties in climate projections. Recent advances in data collection, state estimation and modeling capabilities
have finally established the necessary infrastructure to permit a deeper understanding of the Southern Ocean’s processes that are relevant to climate. Working toward this goal, this session will present new results based on modeling and/or observational efforts
that investigate biogeochemical processes, large-scale and mesoscale circulation, mixing, as well as ocean-atmosphere and ocean-ice interactions.<u></u><u></u></font></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Conveners of the session<u></u><u></u></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Igor Kamenkovich (<a href="mailto:ikamenkovich@rsmas.miami.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">ikamenkovich@rsmas.miami.edu</a>)<u></u><u></u></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Stephen Riser (<a href="mailto:riser@ocean.washington.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">riser@ocean.washington.edu</a>)<u></u><u></u></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Joellen Russell (<a href="mailto:jrussell@email.arizona.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">jrussell@email.arizona.edu</a>)<u></u><u></u></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">Ariane Verdy (<a href="mailto:averdy@ucsd.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">averdy@ucsd.edu</a>)</font></div>
</div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px">-------------------------------------<br>Joellen L. Russell, PhD<br>1885 Society Distinguished Scholar<br>Associate Professor, Depts. of Geosciences and Planetary Sciences<br>University of Arizona<br>Phone: <a href="tel:520-626-2194" value="+15206262194" target="_blank">520-626-2194</a></font></div></div></div><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:14px"><br></font><div></div></div></div>
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