SOFIA:

News

• [October 2023] SOFIA has been sumitted to participate as CMIP7 community MIP:
• [October 2023] The SOFIA experiment protocol is now accepted at GMD. Modellers are starting tier 2 experiments.
• [April 2023] The SOFIA experiment protocol pre-print is live on EGUsphere

Description

The Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative aims to improve our understanding of the simulated response to Antarctic freshwater input, and in particular the model uncertainty.

The initiative has developed an experimental protocol and is engaging with modelling groups from around the world to run this common set of experiments using a variety of coupled climate and ocean-only models. Data from this international multi-model ensemble is openly shared for analysis, and is being synthesized into a series of publications by SOFIA participants.

The initiative was started by the CliC/CLIVAR/SCAR Southern Ocean Regional Panel, is endorsed as a CLIVAR task team, and has been submitted as a community MIP to CMIP7.

Organization

The SOFIA team is made up of a collection of about 20 interested scientists. We always welcome participation from additional members and models. The team has an active slack workspace, and we meet on every second Tuesday of the month via zoom at 12 pm UTC. Get in touch for details!

Contact

Get in touch via email: mail.sofiamip [at] gmail [dot] com

Links and references

• SOFIA protocol paper
• SOFIA data access
• Participating models
• SOFIA scientific contributions
• SOFIA github (Some repos are public, others with possibly sensitive info are private. For access to private repos, login and request access to the project or email us)
• CLIVAR SOFIA webpage