pdf SCAR XXXVI Paper 15: Report of Physical Sciences Group

SCAR XXXVI Delegates Meeting, Online, 16-25 March 2021

SCAR XXXVI Paper 15: Report of Physical Sciences Group

Agenda Item: 8.3
Person Responsible: David Bromwich

Authors: D.H. Bromwich (USA), A. Gulisano (Argentina), S. Colwell (United Kingdom)

Summary of activities from 2018-20

Near-term Variability and Prediction of the Antarctic Climate System (AntClimNow) Proposal Planning Group sponsored by PSG. Submitted its proposal to SCAR to be a Scientific Research Program on May 31, 2020.

Radio Sciences Research on AntarCtic AtmosphEre (RESOURCE). Proposal Planning Group proposal submitted March 2020.

Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH), partially supported by and certainly facilitated by SCAR, successfully completed its Special Observing Period, November 2018-February 2019.

Recommending termination of PACT AG (long past its wind-up date) and SnowANT AG (no activity). Remote Sensing AG requests a merge with Earth Observation AG who agrees. These are good developments as PSG has too many subgroups and reduces the budding overlap between subgroups.