The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study

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The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study

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• Prepared by Casey Ryan, SOLAS International
  Project Office
• casey.ryan_at_uea.ac.uk

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What is SOLAS?

• International, 10 year project
• Aim to achieve quantitative understanding of the
  key biogeochemical-physical interactions and
  feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere,
  and of how this coupled system affects and is
  affected by climate and environmental change.

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SOLAS Science
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SOLAS Science
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Structure
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Structure

• SOLAS is Sponsored by SCOR, IGBP, CACGP and WCRP
• IGBP Core Project
• Part of the Earth System Science Partnership

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Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

•  Order or download your copy at
   www.solas-int.org
• Also on the web
• National SOLAS activities
• Join email list
• Submit your research for SOLAS-endorsement
• Download diagrams, figures and air-sea photos

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SOLAS Foci and Activities
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Structure
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SOLAS The Foci

• FOCUS 1 Biogeochemical interactions and
  feedbacks between ocean and atmosphere
• FOCUS 2Exchange processes at the air-sea
  interface and the role of transport and
  transformation in the atmospheric and ocean
  boundary layers
• FOCUS 3 Air-sea flux of CO2 and other long-lived
  radiatively-active gases

SeaWiFS
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SOLAS The Foci

• Foci 1 Biogeochemical Processes
• Foci 2Physical Dynamics
• Foci 3 Release and Uptake of Greenhouse Gases

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Focus 1Biogeochemical Interactions and Feedbacks
Between Ocean and Atmosphere

• 1.1 Marine Particle Emissions and their
  Transformations
• 1.2 Trace Gas Emissions and Photochemical
  Feedbacks
• 1.3 DMS and Climate
• 1.4 Fe and Marine Productivity
• 1.5 Ocean-Atmosphere Cycling of Nitrogen

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Focus 2 Exchange Processes at the Air-Sea
Interface and the Role of Transport and
Transformation in the Atmospheric and Oceanic
Boundary Layers

• 2.1 Exchange Across the Air-Sea Interface
• 2.2 Processes in the Oceanic Boundary Layer
• 2.3 Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

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Focus 3 Air-Sea Flux of CO2 and Other Long-Lived
Radiatively Active Gases

• 3.1 Geographic and Sub-Decadal Variability of
  Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes
• 3.2 Surface Layer Carbon Transformations in the
  Oceans Sensitivity to Global Change
• 3.3 Air-Sea Flux of N2O and CH4

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SOLAS Activity in 2003-4

• Science Plan Implementation Strategy completed
• www.solas-int.org
• 3 Implementation Plans currently being drafted

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National Programmes

• Canada (7.5M, 80 scientists)
• UK (20M, 5 years)
• UK NERC funding the IPO for 5 years
• Plans for a monitoring station on Cape Verde

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National Programmes

• Canada
• UK
• NZ, Japan, China (Beijing), Brazil and France
  have funded SOLAS programmes
• Germany, Norway, Belgium, and EU SOLAS proposals
• Networks being built in the USA, India, South
  Korea, Russia, Chile and China (Taipei)

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SOLAS National Contacts

• Australia Neil Tindale ntindale_at_usc.edu.au
• Belgium Christian Lancelot lancelot_at_ulb.ac.be
• Brazil Amauri Pereira de Oliveira apodlive_at_usp.br
• Canada Maurice Levasseur SOLAS_at_dal.ca
• Chile Giovanni Daneri gdaneri_at_udelmar.cl
• China (Beijing) Guang-Yu Shi shigy_at_mail.iap.ac.cn
• China (Taipai) Gwo-Ching Gong gcgong_at_mail.ntou.edu
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• Denmark Søren E. Larsen Soeren.Larsen_at_risoe.dk
• France Catherine Goyet cgoyet_at_univ-perp.fr
• Rémi Losno losno_at_lisa.univ-paris12.fr
• Germany Uli Platt Ulrich.Platt_at_iup.uni-heidelberg
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• Doug Wallace dwallace_at_ifm.uni-kiel.de
• India Dileep Kumar dileep_at_darya.nio.org
• Ireland Colin O'Dowd colin.odowd_at_cmas.demon.co.uk
• Italy Maurizio Ribera d'Alcala maurizio_at_szn.it
• Japan Mitsuo Uematsu uematsu_at_ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Korea (ROK) Sung Yang sryang_at_hosim.kwangju.ac.kr
• Netherlands Hein de Baar debaar_at_nioz.nl
• New Zealand Phil Boyd p.boyd_at_niwa.co.nz

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Examples of National Programmes Canada - 9M, 5
years
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Examples of National Activities Japan
SEEDS I IISubarctic Ocean Enrichment and
Ecosystem Dynamics Study
SNIFFSSubtropical Nitrogen Fixation Flux Study
STAGESTudies on the Antarctic ocean and Global
Environment by JARE
SERIESCanadian SOLAS
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CO2 fugacity (fCO2) and chlorophyll a (Chl a)
concentrations during the Subarctic Pacific Iron
Experiment for Ecosystem Dynamics Study (SEEDS)
in the western subarctic gyre of the North
Pacific. The results show a larger CO2 drawdown
(94µatm) than previous iron-enrichment
experiments. The plots denote the vessels track
relative to the center buoy during each survey.
The x and y axes represent the distance (in
kilometers) from the center buoy, and the
concentration is indicated by the colour scale on
the right (Tsuda et al., 2003)
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NZ SOLAS Air-sea Gas Exchange Experiment
Inside Patch
Outside Patch
J.Hall, NIWA
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FlemenCO2
Nicolas Metzl
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Examples of National Activities Germany
Meteor 55 Oct-Nov 02
W-E Equatorial Atlantic
Research Areas
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SOLAS Summer School
Corsica, France, 2003 plans for 2005 and 2007
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Further Info

• Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
• International Project Office at UEA, Norwich UK
• www.solas-int.org
• solas_at_uea.ac.uk