The Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study

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The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study
Rob Upstill-Goddard University of Newcastle upon
Tyne
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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

• 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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• Brazil, Canada, China (Beijing), France, Japan,
  NZ and UK 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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UK Programme

• funded by NERC 103m, 2004-2009.
• http//www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/ thematics/solas
• 11 Research Grants (4m) and 9 Tied Research
  Studentships awarded in Phase 1(2005)
• 3 Research grants (0.8m) awarde in phase 2
  (2005)

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UK Awards thus far

• Achterberg (NOC) Effect of atmospheric dust
  inputs on tropical North Atlantic plankton
• Archer (PML) DMSP and GBT in protecting
  photoinhibition /photoxidative stress and
  consequences for DMS and NH3 production
• Carslaw (Leeds) Global Modelling of Aerosols and
  Chemistry
• Green (SAMS) Algal-Bacteria Interactions and
  Dimethylsulphide Fluxes to the Atmosphere (ALBA)
• Highwood (Reading) Dust Outflow and Deposition to
  the Ocean (DODO)
• Murrell (Warwick) Role of the bacterioneuston in
  air-sea gas exchange
• Nightingale (PML) Air-sea OVOC fluxes Seawater
  sources/sinks and role of the microlayer
• Robinson (PML) The impact of coastal up-wellings
  on air-sea exchange of climatically important
  gases
• Brooks(Leeds) Field Observations of Sea Spray,
  Gas Fluxes and Whitecaps (SEASAW)
• Upstill-Goddard (Newcastle) DOGEE-SOLAS The
  UKSOLAS Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
• Yelland (NOC) High Wind Air-Sea Exchanges
  (HiWASE)
• Carpenter (York) Transformations, volatilisation
  and speciation of organic and inorganic iodine in
  the marine environment
• Malin (UEA) Investigation of Near-Surface
  Production of Iodocarbons - Rates and Exchange
  (INSPIRE)
• McFiggans (Manchester) Reactive Halogens in the
  Marine Boundary Layer

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Further Info

• Science Plan and Implementation Strategy
• International Project Office at UEA, Norwich UK
• http//www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/
• solas_at_uea.ac.uk