Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative
SOFIA github static website
SOFIA:
News
- [March 2025] : Meet us at BACO25 in Busan, Korea, 20-25 July 2025: Session JCP05 Ice sheet-ocean interactions and impacts
- [February 2025] New Publication based on SOFIA experiments: Pauling, A. G., Smith, I. J., Ridley, J. K., Martin, T., Thomas, M., and Stevens, D. P. (2025). Impacts of Antarctic ice mass loss on New Zealand climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111047. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111047
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 is a registered CMIP7 community MIP.
Organization
The SOFIA team is made up of a collection of about 40 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 20:00 (8 pm) UTC. Get in touch for details: mail.sofiamip [at] gmail [dot] com !
Protocol
The SOFIA experiment protocol was published in Geophysical Model Development (GMD) in December 2023 and can be downloaded as pdf document.
Links and references
- SOFIA publications and conference contributions
- SOFIA protocol paper
- SOFIA data access
- Participating models
- 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
Contact
Get in touch via email:
mail.sofiamip [at] gmail [dot] com