Key findings of the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)?,

GUINDER, V.; CHIDICHIMO, M. P.; ISLA, F.

Mar del Plata

Congreso; XVIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias del Mar-COLACMAR 2019; 2019

COLACMAR/ALICMAR

The ocean and cryosphere play a key role in the Earth system regulating global climateand weather. For example, uptake of heat and carbon into the ocean has so farrestricted the magnitude of anthropogenic warming at the Earth?s surface. The extraheat and carbon absorbed by the ocean results in warming of the water column,increased sea level, acidification and deoxygenation, with consequent impacts on life inthe ocean, on ecosystem services (e.g. fisheries) and on human communities living bythe sea, and also strongly affecting global climate. As part of its Sixth AssessmentCycle, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced a SpecialReport on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), which willbewas released in September 2019 after two years of preparation by around 100experts from 30 countries selected by the IPCC. The SROCC assessed the multipleobserved and projected changes in the ocean and the cryosphere in a continuingwarming climate evaluating new information since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report(AR5; IPCC 2013) and it was developed under the joint scientific leadership of IPCCWorking Group I (The Physical Science basis) and Working Group II (Impacts,Adaptation, and Mitigation), providing fundamental connections between physicalchanges and how natural and human communities will be impacted by them, assessingstrategies to respond and adapt to ongoing and future risks. We will present anddiscuss the background and key findings of the SROCC.