The SOC research in the Southern Ocean involves a collaboration with of a variety of institutions and individuals around the world. These include the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, University of East Anglia, the British Antarctic Survey, BODC and CSIRO.

The ACCLAIM (Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements) programme in the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans consists of measurements from coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure stations, together with an ongoing research programme in satellite altimetry.

The MYRTLE (Multi Year Return Tidal Experiment) mission is to send back sea level and temperature information from the deep ocean over a period of five years.

FRAM (Fine resolution Antarctic Model) is a primitive equation model of the Southern Ocean (24S to 79S).

WOCE Cruise A23, from the Falkland Islands to the ice shelf (on 16W) via Punta Arenas. The ship occupied deep stations every 10 - 60km between Antarctica and Rio de Janeiro.

The ALBATROSS (Antarctic Large Scale Box Analysis and Role Of the Scotia Sea) cruise, JR40 studied the influence of the Scotia Sea on global ocean circulation.

BAS undertakes a world-class programme of science in the Antarctic and related regions, addressing key global and regional issues through research, survey and long term monitoring, investing in its staff to sustain a skilled and adaptable workforce, developing and maintaining necessary facilities and infrastructure and linking to business where appropriate.

BAS ships are the staging point of most of the work that is under in the Drake Passage.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre is responsible for archiving UK WOCE field data; transferring the data to Data Assembly Centres (DACs), Special Analysis Centres (SACs) &international data centres; and making the data available to UK WOCE scientists.

CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation) and its Antarctic subdivision, Antarctic CRC (The Co-operative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean) are involved with projects designed to characterise the oceanic and atmospheric circulations of the south polar region, their interaction with sea ice and the continental ice-sheet, their relation to global environmental change and their relation to biological productivity. They are designed to establish baselines of natural variability from geologic and paleo-environmental records both onshore and offshore Antarctica. They include research on the political and legal aspects of the overall regime.

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