SAON Documents and Publications
- Alice Bradly et al (2023): Shared Arctic Variable Framework Links Local to Global Observing System Priorities and Requirements
- Starkweather et al (2022): Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks’ (SAON) Roadmap for Arctic Observing and Data Systems (ROADS)
- Value tree for physical atmosphere and ocean observations in the Arctic (FMI, 2019)
- The International Arctic Observations Assessment Framework (with STPI, 2017)
- An external review of SAON was conducted in 2016. A summary is found here. The full report is found here
- The SAON Committees were established in 2014 with these Terms of Reference
- The SAON implementation plan is from 2014
- The SAON Board approved the Terms of Reference for SAON in 2012
- The decision to establish SAON was made by the Arctic Council in the Nuuk Declaration (2011). Details are found in the SAO report to the Nuuk Ministerial Meeting from 2011 (page 7)
- The SAON brochure from 2011 describes the SAON vision and implementation
- The SAON Steering group drafted the Plan for the Implementation Phase of SAON for the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee (February 2011)
- A dialogue between SAON and the IPY Data Management Group resulted in an international workshop in Oslo, June 2010. A report from the workshop is available
- In December 2008, the SAON Initiating Group published the report Observing the Arctic
SAON governance workshop documents
SAON has organised a series of workshops to review its structure:
- ROADS Advisory Panel 30 July 2020
- Committtee on Observations and Networks (CON) 30 November 2020
- National structures 14 April 2021
- Arctic Council Working Groups 16 September 2021
Publications making reference to SAON
- Clive Tesar, Marc-Andre Dubois, Alexander Shestakov (2016): Toward strategic, coherent, policy-relevant arctic science
- Paul Arthur Berkman: Institutional Dimensions of Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON)
- J. Calder, David S. Hik, L. O. Reiersen, O. Rogne: "Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks: An International Initiative to Develop a Legacy to the International Polar Year (IPY)"
- Gabriela Ibarguchi: The Arctic Observing Summit: Progress Towards and Integrated, Multipurpose, and International Arctic Observing System
- William F. Manley, Allison G. Gaylord, Ari Kassin, Ryan Cody, Craig Tweedie: The U.S. Arctic Observing Viewer: A Web-Mapping Application for Enhancing Environmental Observation of the Changing Arctic
- Sandra Starkweather, Von Walden, Taneil Uttal, John F Burkhart: Advancing Arctic Atmospheric Science through Developing Collaborative, Use-Informed Targets for International Observing Development
- Christine Barnard, Warwick F. Vincent, Denis Sarrazin, Najat Bhiry: The CEN network of arctic observing stations and Nordicana D for data dissemination
- Georg Hansen, Karin Refsnes: The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) ESFRI Initiative - A possible future cornerstone of European Arctic research
- Toward an Integrated Arctic Observing Network (2006)
Other institutions' documents on SAON
- In the document "An integrated European Union policy for the Arctic" from 2016, the European Commission describes its support to SAON: “Finally, the EU contributes through Horizon 2020 to pan-Arctic observing initiatives such as those promoted by the Arctic Council with SAON or the GEO Cold Region Initiative, with the view of preparing through research the establishment of operational long-standing systems.”
- In 2008, the Eighth Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region encouraged national governments, the Arctic Council and institutions of EU to implement the SAON recommendations
- In it's communication "THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE ARCTIC REGION" from 2008 the European Commission states that the EU should contribute to support the establishment of the Sustained Arctic Observing Network (page 6)
- In 2008, ministers, government representatives and politicians of the EU met for a conference in Monaco to discuss recent development in the Arctic area. The SAON process got support in the final declaration
