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International SOLAS:
Network Progress
and Plans
CARBOOCEAN Annual Meeting
Gran Canaria December 2006
International SOLAS
1. Structure
2. Sponsors
3. Activities
4. The IPO
5. Open Science Meeting
The Domain of SOLAS Research
SOLAS has 3 Main Focus Areas:
Focus 1: Biogeochemical Interactions and Feedbacks
Between Ocean and Atmosphere
Chairs: Bill Miller (USA) & Mitsuo Uematsu (Japan)
Focus 2: Exchange Processes at the Air-Sea Interface and
the Role of Transport and Transformation in the
Atmospheric and Oceanic Boundary Layers
Chair: Wade McGillis (USA)
Focus 3: Air-Sea Flux of CO2 and Other Long-Lived
Radiatively-Active Gases
Chairs: Truls Johannessen (Norway) & Arne Koertzinger (Germany)
This activity is developed jointly with IMBER and includes 3 sub-groups:
WG1-Surface Ocean Systems
WG2-Interior Ocean
WG3-Sensitivity: (future oceans)
• Joint Implementation Plan
completed and on both web
sites
• SIC will meet in April at the
IOCCP meeting in Paris on
Surface pCO2 and Ocean
Vulnerability
SOLAS Data Management Team
Doug Wallace (Germany), Outgoing Chair
Juan Brown (UK), Incoming Chair
• Evaluate and document data products and data handling requirements
 Develop practical policy for the documentation of models and model products
 Recommend a common data reporting and sharing policy suitable for adoption
by projects seeking International SOLAS endorsement
 Ensure that procedures are established to allow quantification of data
uncertainties and quality (metadata requirements)
 Make recommendations concerning data centres that are particularly suitable
for SOLAS needs
 Work with national SOLAS PIs, data centres, the SOLAS IPO and national
funding agencies to coordinate an international network of data managers that
are hands-on with SOLAS data. At some later date, we envision this
transforming into a Data Management Implementation Team.
2006 SOLAS SSC
Peter Liss
Paty Matrai
Isabel Cacho
Truls Johannessen
Wade McGillis
Tim Jickells
Ken Denman
Sergey Gulev
Guang-Yu Shi
Shigenobu Takeda
Mitsuo Uematsu
Bill Miller
Uli Platt
Barry Huebert
Doug Wallace
Christiane Lancelot
Gerrit DeLeeuw
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WCRP Departing
WCRP sponsored
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2007 SOLAS SSC
Peter Liss
Paty Matrai
Isabel Cacho
Truls Johannessen
Wade McGillis
Tim Jickells
Cliff Law
Sergey Gulev
Guang-Yu Shi
Shigenobu Takeda
Mitsuo Uematsu
David Kieber
Uli Platt
Barry Huebert
Veronique Garcon
Christiane Lancelot
Gerrit DeLeeuw
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France
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The IGBP Network
AIMES
GEWEX 1988 
WCRP
Observation
Assmilation
Panel
SPARC 1992
WGNE
WGCM
WGSF
Coordinated Observation and
Prediction of the Earth System
CLIVAR 1995 
SOLAS 2001 ->
WCRP
Modelling
Panel
CliC 2000 
SOLAS links closely with other SCOR projects:
GEOTRACES
IMBER
Various SCOR WG’s
SOLAS Networks in 23 Nations
Substantial Programmes:
Belgium
Canada
China
Germany
Japan
UK
USA
Sponsors:
Major NEW SOLAS Funded Program in Germany
Coordinator:
Submitted:
Proposed start:
Requested:
Douglas Wallace, IFM-GEOMAR
Jan 2006
Jan 2007
EU 6.5 m over 3 years
(12 Institutions, 43 Investigators, 23 sub-projects)
SOPRAN Goals:
How changing
atmospheric composition
affects the surface ocean
ecosystem
How climate-related
changes in surface ocean
processes alter oceanic
emissions to the
atmosphere
Mechanisms / rates of
air-sea material exchange
Another major effort by the German science community
(to be proposed):
Marine Multi-Phase Halogen
Chemistry and its Coupling to
Nitrogen and Sulfur Cycles
MAPHiNS
U. Platt, S. Borrmann, A. Bracher, J.N. Crowley, H. Herrmann,
T. Hoffmann, B. Jähne, A. Richter, P. Spietz, B. Vogel, R. von Glasow, W. von
Hoyningen-Huene, T. Wagner, A. Wiedensohler, R. Wolke
Proposal for a coordinated research project to German Science Foundation
- complementary to SOPRAN
- Duration up to 12 years
OUTLINE of Implementation Projects for each Focus
US-SOLAS
Science Plan
1:1 Global Ocean Trace Gas Surveys
1:2 The North-Atlantic African Dust-Aerosol
Experiment (NAFDAE)
1:3 Ocean-Atmosphere Ice-Snowpack (OASIS)
1:4 Climate Modeling in SOLAS (CLIMAS)
2:1 World Ocean Gas Exchange Process Studies
2:2 Surface Spray in situ and modelling studies
2:3 HiT-US
2:4 Cape Verde Air-Sea Interaction Time Series
Station
3:1 Air-Water Carbon and Methane Fluxes in
Coastal Oceans
3:2 Southern Ocean Carbon Dioxide Studies
3:3 Global Surface Carbon Concentration Surveys
3:4 Perturbation Experiments
4:1 Autonomous and Langrangian platforms
(ALPS) for SOLAS
4:2 Satellites and Model Assimilations
4:3 Summer School
4:4 Data Management
SOLAS-Japan
“Linkages in Biogeochemical Cycles Between the
Surface Ocean and Lower Atmosphere”
July 2006 award; $9.2 million; 5 Year duration
• Source the supply of land-based substances controlling primary production
in the Pacific
• Determine how the marine ecological system will response to changing
atmospheric composition
• Determine how the production and emission of biogenic gases affect
atmospheric composition
• Evaluate the contribution of marine biogenic gases to global warming
• Provide basic knowledge of the issues of global warming to policy makers
A new network has started in Asia to address the impact
of the dust on ocean ecosystems. Two workshops have been held.
Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystems (ADOES)
Dust fall in Beijing, Apr.17, 2006
Scientific Objectives of ADOES
(Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystem)
SOLAS-China is the lead, with participation from a number of other Asian nations
To improve the understanding of the outbreak mechanism of dust, transport
processes, especially the changes in physical and chemical properties of dust
particles during their transport from source regions to the ocean, and the impacts
of nutrient-rich dust particles on marine ecology system.
 Environmental conditions of dust storm occurrence and its outbreak mechanism
 Long-distance transportation processes, temporal-spatial distribution of dust
 Changes in physical and chemical characteristics of Asian dust during transportation
 Flux of Asian dust into China seas and the Pacific Ocean
 The major factors controlling the utilization of dust nutrients
 Effects of Asian dust on the marine ecology system
 Radiative transfer in euphotic layer & remote sensing marine primary productivity
AICI (Air-Ice Chemical Interactions)
• Sponsored by SOLAS and IGAC
• Eric Wolff (UK)
Paul Shepson (USA)
• Campaigns at South Pole and
Halley Bay (Antarctica) in 20042005 to study tropospheric ozone
depletion, ice photochemistry and
halogen cycles
South Pole
NO > 200 pptv (model expectation 1-5 pptv)
OH ~2 x 106 molecules cm-3
Ocean-AtmosphereSea Ice-Snowpack
www.OASIShome.net
Arctic Ocean is central to the understanding of climate and global change
OASIS is a long term science program for the next decade.
OASIS Science
OASIS Implementation
OASIS – IPY 2007-08: m/v Antarctica
SOLAS/INI Review of
Anthropogenic Nitrogen Impacts on the Open Ocean
Joint SOLAS/International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) Review of
Anthropogenic Nitrogen Impacts on the Open Ocean
University of East Anglia on 17-20 November 2006.
The products will be 2-3 papers for submission to journals such
as Deep-Sea Research or Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and a
review paper submitted to Science or Nature.
SOLAS sponsored event
SOLAS has endorsed!
CARBOOCEAN
Aims at an accurate assessment of marine carbon sources / sinks
Focused on the Atlantic and Southern Oceans (-200 to +200 years)
5 core themes
1. North Atlantic and Southern Ocean CO2 air-sea exchange on seasonal-tointerannual scale. (Andy Watson)
2. Detection of decadal-to-centennial Atlantic and Southern Ocean carbon inventory
changes. (Doug Wallace)
3. Carbon uptake and release at European regional scale. (Helmuth Thomas)
4. Biogeochemical feedbacks on the oceanic carbon sink. (Marion Gehlen)
5. Future scenarios for marine carbon sources and sinks. (C. Heinze)
• With support from SOLAS International Project Office and BELSPO
DMS model inter-comparison workshop
Brussels, 4-8 December 2006
• Origin: Discussion forum at SOLAS Open Science meeting, Halifax Oct 2004
Conduct a systematic comparison of DMS ecosystem models against common
data sets to spur improvements and indicate observations to better constrain
DMS dynamics.
Ad-hoc committee: C. Lancelot, M. Levasseur and A. Vezina
Y. Le Clainche drafted as scientific coordinator, V. Schoemann as local organizer
• Workshop planning at the 4th DMS(P) international symposium at UEA
What is the SOLAS International Project Office (IPO)?
People
Jeff Hare (Executive Officer)
Emily Breviere (Project Officer)
Georgia Bayliss-Brown (Research Assistant)
Roles
• Communication
• Coordination
• Provide an international basis for the SOLAS Legacy
eBulletins, Newsletters, Website
http://www.solas-int.org
Moving to online version of the newsletter
IPO Activities
Coordination at all levels of SOLAS structure, including:
SSC
Sponsored meetings / events
National SOLAS activities
Workshops
Work with other IGBP projects,
Maintain the network
Summer School
Open Science Meetings
Implementation Groups
Data Management Team
Other…..
Summer School 2007:
•22nd October- 3rd November
•Scientific committee:
Phil Boyd
Minhan Dai
Mitsuo Uematsu
Maurice Levasseur
Véronique Garçon
Corinne Le Quéré
Peter Liss
Uli Platt
Natalie Mahowald
Eric Saltzman
NZ
China
Japan
Canada
France
UK
UK
Germany
US
US
Institut Scientifique de Cargèse,
Corsica
Major new funding for coordinating SOLAS data and activities
• European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and
Technical Research (COST)
– Supports the creation of Data Products for each SOLAS Focus
– ~ € 50k per year for 5 years (begins October 2006)
• UK Natural Environment Research Council Knowledge
Transfer (NERC-KT)
– Data Integrator Position to be filled before the end of 2006
– Coordinates with BODC
2007 SOLAS Open Science Meeting
6-9 March 2007
Xiamen, Fujian, China
http://www.solas2007.confmanager.com
1 Laurent Bopp, France
2 Jill Cainey, Australia
3 Min-Han Dai, China (Beijing)
4 Laura Farias, Chile
5 Véronique Garçon, France
6 Barry Huebert, USA
7 Kitack Lee, Korea
8 Maurice Levasseur, Canada
9 Craig McNeil (USA)
10 Lisa Miller, Canada
11 Colin Murrel, UK
12 Phil Nightingale, UK
13 Tom Pedersen, Canada
14 Joyce Penner, USA
15 Eric Saltzman, USA
16 Lise Lotte Soerensen, Denmark
17 Shigenobu Takeda, Japan
18 Wu-Ting Tsai, China (Taipei)
19 Roland Von Glasow, Germany
20 Doug Wallace, Germany
21 Andy Watson, UK
22 Tong Zhu, China (Beijing)
List of Plenary Speakers at the
SOLAS Open Science Meeting
6-9 March 2007
Xiamen China
• Please attend.
• Register Early!
• Bring your
students.