Infrastructure design v.1.0 (D7.4)

The goal of OCEAN:ICE is to evaluate the impacts of key Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and Southern Ocean processes on sea level rise, deep water formation, and ocean circulation to enhance predictions of how changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets impact global climate. To achieve this, historical datasets, observations from the period spanning 2022 to 2024, and numerical models, including the development of coupled ice sheet-ocean and ice sheet-ocean-climate models, will be employed.The WP7 Data Management team has taken over the legacy of the EU Horizon 2020 SO-CHIC project to contribute to making Southern Ocean data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable in the long term. As described in the OCEAN:ICE Data Management Plan (Novellino & Misurale, 2023; Novellino & Dapueto, 2024), WP7 focuses on in situ data.OCEAN:ICE moves beyond open access in implementing open science practices while adhering to the principles FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) principles: OCEAN:ICE infrastructure is designed to provide immediate, free access and interoperability for collected data. It adopts open data management software tools (e.g., ERDDAP™, GeoServer, GeoNetwork) and ensures that OCEAN:ICE data is immediately integrable and accessible via the European Commission public data repositories.