Call 02 - single stage (2027) · Unlocking a safe operating space for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: • improved multidisciplinary scientific understanding of the functioning of the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic cryosphere and associated ecosystem dynamics, in the near term (∼2030), mid-term (2050-2060) and long-term (after ∼2060), including their mutual interaction with, impact on and vulnerability to, current and future changes in the other components of the regional and global…

Proposals should: • resolve uncertainties, improve projections and quantifications of the future of the region, looking at changes in the near-, mid- and long-term (irreversible, abrupt and committed changes), their likelihood, timing, rate, amplitude, and impacts on the Earth's System (decadal to millennial climate projections, global sea level, ocean circulation, global carbon budget); • advance understanding of the complex interactions and feedbacks between the ocean,…